Production Planner

West Pharmaceutical Services; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

West Pharmaceutical Services in Singapore is seeking a Senior Production Planner to coordinate production planning, ensuring schedules align with customer orders and safety stock levels. The role emphasizes maximizing equipment utilization and collaborating across Supply Chain, Customer Success, and manufacturing to meet lead times for Make-to-Order items.

The ideal candidate has 5–8 years of planning experience in a regulated manufacturing setting, with strong Excel and SAP PP/MRP skills, and a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply chain, Operations Management or similar discipline.
• 5–8 years' experience in supply chain and production planning in a regulated manufacturing environment.
• MRP-SAP PP module planning experience, master production schedules, rough cut capacity plans, and resource plans.
• Strong Excel and report development skills.
• Strong analytical skills; ability to work independently; teamwork-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate production planning to support customer orders and safety stock.
• Maximize capacity utilization to achieve production output and material availability.
• Collaborate with customers, supply chain, and manufacturing on order execution within/outside standard lead times for Make-to-Order items.
• Prioritize and communicate between Supply Chain and Commercial teams; track actions to completion.
• Identify excess/expired/at-risk inventory with commercial and operations.
• Analyze capacity constraints and support engineering projects and material impact.
• Ensure timely clearance of MRB materials to minimize write-offs.
• Maintain KPI dashboards and reports; ensure data accuracy.

Skills

Strong Excel

Analytical skills

Independent worker

Teamwork

Learning capacity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply chain, Operations Management or similar discipline

Tools

MRP-SAP PP module

Excel

Job description

Job Summary

• Plan, coordinate production planning to ensure Production Schedule is in place to support customer order requirements, replenishment of safety stock and business goal.
• Maximize machines and tools capacity utilization to achieve Production Output plan, inventory goal and customer materials availability.
• Collaborate with Customers, Customer Success, Supply Chain and manufacturing in managing execution of customer orders inside and outside standard lead time for Make-to-Order items
• Manage/communicate prioritization requests between Supply Chain and Commercial Team; ensuring that requests are reviewed timely then tracking/communicating actions to complete final processing
• Identify excess/expired/at risk inventory reviews with commercial and operations function.
• Analyze production capacity constraints and provide support and recommendations for engineering projects, including tool qualification timelines, coordinating with materials team on raw material impact.
• Work closely with the production team to ensure timely clearance of MRB materials to support demand and minimize potential write-off risks.
• Monitor planning relevant master data for accuracy, ensuring consistent evaluations and delivering and maintaining KPI dashboard or reports on a regular basis.
• Evaluate short and mid-term planning runs for inconsistencies, troubleshoot, and provide direction to Plant Supply Chain to resolve issues
• Support quality investigations, assess impact, and collaborate with teams to ensure customer demand is met including identify opportunities to improve and streamline the planning process.
• Manage monthly Supply Chain Operations meetings with participate in supply chain related daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly meetings to review and focus on yearly KPI targets and monthly trends to drive actions
• Other duties as assigned

Description

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate production planning to ensure Production Schedule is in place to support customer order requirements, replenishment of safety stock and business goal.
• Maximize machines and tools capacity utilization to achieve Production Output plan, inventory goal and customer materials availability.
• Collaborate with Customers, Customer Success, Supply Chain and manufacturing in managing execution of customer orders inside and outside standard lead time for Make-to-Order items
• Manage/communicate prioritization requests between Supply Chain and Commercial Team; ensuring that requests are reviewed timely then tracking/communicating actions to complete final processing
• Identify excess/expired/at risk inventory reviews with commercial and operations function.
• Analyze production capacity constraints and provide support and recommendations for engineering projects, including tool qualification timelines, coordinating with materials team on raw material impact.
• Work closely with the production team to ensure timely clearance of MRB materials to support demand and minimize potential write-off risks.
• Monitor planning relevant master data for accuracy, ensuring consistent evaluations and delivering and maintaining KPI dashboard or reports on a regular basis.
• Evaluate short and mid-term planning runs for inconsistencies, troubleshoot, and provide direction to Plant Supply Chain to resolve issues
• Support quality investigations, assess impact, and collaborate with teams to ensure customer demand is met including identify opportunities to improve and streamline the planning process.
• Manage monthly Supply Chain Operations meetings with participate in supply chain related daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly meetings to review and focus on yearly KPI targets and monthly trends to drive actions
• Other duties as assigned

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Supply chain, Operations Management or similar discipline

Work Experience

• 5 to 8 years' experience in Supply chain, production planning in a highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• MRP-SAP PP module planning experience, master production schedules, rough cut capacity plans, and resource plans
• Strong excel and report development skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work independently
• Strong learning capacity
• Teamwork-focused mindset

Preferred Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• APICS Certified
• Lean, Agile or Six Sigma a plus.
• Project Management certification is a plus.
• Able to be aware of all relevant SOPs as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description
• Support and contribute in Lean Sigma programs and activities towards delivery of the set target
• Able to comply with the company’s safety policy at all times
• Able to comply with the company’s quality policy at all times.