Senior Material Planner

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.; Cork; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. in Cork, Ireland is seeking a Senior Material Planner on a 12‑month contract.

The role focuses on ensuring material availability for Drug Substance, Drug Product and Finish Goods, with SAP MRP ownership and strong collaboration with suppliers and internal customers. The ideal candidate has an honours degree in supply chain, SAP experience, GMP exposure, and at least two years in planning/purchasing within pharma.

Qualifications

• A minimum of an Honour’s Degree (NFQ level 7) in Supply Chain Management or other related business discipline is essential.
• Supply Chain Certification (APICS) is preferred.
• Experience in SAP and GMP environment is desirable.
• Minimum of 2 years’ relevant Supply Chain Management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage Material Requirements Planning (MRP) in SAP to align with the Master Production Schedule.
• Convert purchase requisitions to purchase orders and manage supplier invoices.
• Coordinate end‑to‑end inventory management including FIFO/FEFO, safety stock and lead times.
• Issue supplier forecasts and maintain KPI data for supplier performance.
• Support site S&OE/ATS/ATP processes and participate in campaigns and QMS changes.

Skills

Material planning

Cross-functional

Analytical

GMP knowledge

Education

Honours Degree in Supply Chain Management

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Job description

BioMarin is a global biotechnology company that relentlessly pursues bold science to translate genetic discoveries into new medicines that advance the future of human health.

Since our founding in 1997, we have applied our scientific expertise in understanding the underlying causes of genetic conditions to create transformative medicines, using a number of treatment modalities.

Our manufacturing and process development teams manage the production of our therapies for clinical trials and commercial markets. These engineers, technicians, scientists, and support professionals continually provide quality assurance and ensure we meet all regulatory standards. We have manufacturing facilities in Northern California and in Cork, Ireland. Additionally, our supply chain teams procure the goods and services needed to support manufacturing and worldwide distribution.

About Technical Operations

BioMarin’s Technical Operations group is responsible for creating our drugs for use in clinical trials and for scaling production of those drugs for the commercial market. These engineers, technicians, scientists and support staff build and maintain BioMarin’s cutting-edge manufacturing processes and sites, provide quality assurance and quality control to ensure we meet regulatory standards, and procure the needed goods and services to support manufacturing and coordinating the worldwide movement of our drugs to patients.

Title: Senior Material Planner

Duration: 12 Month Contract

Work type: Contract

Role:

The primary role of the Material Planner is to ensure the availability of raw material components to meet the production schedule in Drug Substance, Drug Product and Finish Goods Packaging Operations. Ensure raw material components are planned, purchased and released within the guidelines established in the ERP SAP system. The Material Planner will play a key role in the development and implementation of systems and processes to ensure optimal raw material coverage in line with the Master Production Schedule as well as product launch activities.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for Material Requirements Planning (MRP) in line with the Master Production Schedule in SAP to ensure that operational requirements are met

• Responsible for converting purchase requestions to purchase order as required by SAP detail schedule including payment of supplier invoices
• Responsible for monitoring Materials release status to meet detailed schedule
• Responsible for Inventory Management end to end including (Pricing (Purchase Info Record), Purchase Price Variance (PPV), reserve process, expiry, FIFO, FEFO, safety stock, lead times etc)
• Responsible for issuing quarterly supplier forecasts
• Responsible for generating and issuing recurring Heatmap/Material Readiness to site stakeholders. Participate in weekly material readiness activity.
• Responsible for ensuring that supplier open order book is issued and aligned with SAP on a weekly basis.
• Responsible for Master Data accuracy in SAP for material components
• Responsible for aging receipts, resolving issues and identifying root causes
• Responsible for Short Term Exception Management (STEM) program as required and proactively engage with stakeholders to resolve schedule conflicts.
• Responsible for inputs into the monthly site Supply Chain Review meeting (SCR)
• Participate in end of campaign performance review (Plan V Actual) to correct future campaign requirements
• Participate in Global Category Form and Quarterly Business Review (QBR)
• Participate in site Single Use Application strategy meetings
• Member of the functional process team level as required
• Facilitate Tier 1 Purchasing team meeting
• Complete material planning scenarios as required to maintain detailed schedule
• e as required in delivery of Change Request, CAPA ,Deviation & Supplier Change Notification (SCN) within the Quality Management System (QMS) system
• Engage Right First Time (six-sigma) and lean manufacturing practices leading to Operational Excellence
• Develop, maintain and publish KPI’s for supplier performance (OTIF)
• Safety and Quality
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
• Participate in daily cross-functional meetings to ensure maintenance of Adherence to Schedule *(ATS) and Adherence to Plan *(ATP) in line with Make / Assess / Release commitments
• Participate in weekly S&OE meetings ensuring cross functional alignment of plans
• Participate in Material Planner Standard Work
• Metrics
• Cost Savings
• Dual Sourcing
• Operational Readiness Programs (ORP)
• List above identify key responsibility, but other duties maybe required as per business needs

Knowledge, Skills and Capabilities

• Development of efficient and effective Material planning processes and systems
• Engage with vendors in an ethical and compliant manner when required
• Be “Patient & Customer focused” ensuring that requirements are clearly planned for and communicated within the organization
• Be Results driven, while ensuring the optimization and efficient use of cross functional resources
• Contribute to the innovation and continuous improvement (CI) within Material Operations and BioMarin
• Be collaborative and cross-functional with all other departments within the site and across the wider BioMarin community
• Ensure department and personal “goals and objectives” are completed in an effective and efficient manner
• A strong strategic thinker who can perform at both a strategic and tactical level when and where required within and across the organization
• Ensure a high level of integrity always while performing the role
• Demonstrate the drive and eagerness to be successful in this role with a view to developing and progressing to levels of increasing responsibility.
• Education & Experience
• A minimum of an Honor’s Degree (NFQ level 7) in Supply Chain Management or other related Business discipline is essential
• Supply Chain Certification is preferred e.g. APICS
• Project Management or Lean Certification is desirable

Experience

• A minimum of 2 years relevant Supply Chain Management experience
• Experience in Planning/Purchasing in a pharmaceutical environment with strong technical/systems background is desirable
• Experience of SAP is essential
• Prove track record in end to end leading and managing of a direct material category (specific experience managing chemicals, SUT’s (Single Use Technologies) highly desirable
• Power BI or similar data analytics visual tool knowledge is desirable but not essential
• Experience working in a GMP environment for a minimum of 1 years
• Project Management with a focus on value creation and waste reduction programmes highly desirable

Note: This description is not intended to be all-inclusive, or a limitation of the duties of the position. It is intended to describe the general nature of the job that may include other duties as assumed or assigned.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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