Sales & Operational Planning Leader

Piramal Pharma Ltd; Aurora (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Piramal Pharma Solutions in Canada seeks a Sales & Operational Planning Leader to drive demand planning, supply response, and capacity optimization across the network. You will lead ERP/SAP planning activities, produce S&OP reports, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align forecasts with production and delivery commitments.

The role requires strong analytics, scenario planning, and the ability to translate business needs into actionable capacity and resource plans, ensuring OTIF and

Qualifications

• Experience in S&OP and demand/supply planning.
• Ability to run ERP SAP-based planning and reporting.
• Forecasting, scheduling and working capital control.
• Strong analytics and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead S&OP process for a 24-month horizon.
• Facilitate planning discussions to align functions.
• Leverage SAP to automate planning and reporting.
• Produce regular S&OP reports on capacity and utilization.
• Maintain master data and ensure data integrity across planning tools.
• Identify capacity constraints and drive optimization actions.

Skills

Demand planning

Supply planning

Capacity planning

ERP/SAP

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SAP

Job description

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Piramal Pharma Solutions
Piramal Pharma Solutions is a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), offering end-to-end development and manufacturing solutions across the drug life cycle. We serve our clients through a globally integrated network of facilities in North America, Europe and Asia.
This enables us to offer a comprehensive range of services including Drug Discovery Solutions, Process & Pharmaceutical Development services, Clinical Trial Supplies, Commercial supply of APIs and Finished dosage forms. We also offer specialized services like development and manufacture of Highly Potent APIs and Antibody Drug Conjugation.
Our capability as an integrated service provider & experience with various technologies enable us to serve Innovator and Generic companies worldwide.
For more details, please visit : www.piramalpharmasolutions.com

Job Title

Sales & Operational Planning Leader

Job Description

The Sales & Operational Planning Leader serves as the subject matter expert for demand planning, supply response, network optimization, and capacity and resource planning while supporting various projects including demand plans, finite schedule, consumption models, long-term capacity planning, network and production strategy optimization, integration of new businesses/projects, and provides support to finance department for periodic reporting and forecasting.

• Responsible for supporting and facilitating the S&OP process within a 24-month horizon at the site; including scenario planning and synthesis of data to support the demand, supply, recon and exec review cycles.
• Responsible for facilitating planning discussions to gain consensus among functions and stakeholders.
• Drive full utilization of ERP system (SAP) capabilities to automate supply chain activities and reporting.
• Produce periodic S&OP reports including but not limited to long-term capacity plans, utilization, resource constraints, etc.
• Accountable for the raw materials management process, including forecasting, scheduling, working capital control and obsolescence.
• Maintain a production plan to support a production schedule to support the identification of material, asset, and manpower requirements.
• Maintain the S&OP/ planning master data integrity in support of cross functional tools and systems.
• Facilitate the process matching demand and supply, as well as adjust plan/schedule to match availability of resources.
• Optimize Capacity Plan to support the S&OP (24-month) and longer-term business planning. Identify excess/shortage of capacity/manpower for various functions to take actions in advance to address potential production and customer delivery issues. Drive profitability by optimization of capacity utilization.
• Propose different scenarios/Trade-Offs at recon/exec reviews to facilitate decision making regarding capacity allocation among projects and projects.
• Ensuring forecasts are captured, aligned within capacity, and reviewed in Supply response meetings to optimize capacity/ revenue as required.
• Responsible for capacity planning ensuring all demand signals are incorporated while working collaboratively with cross functional teams.
• Responsible for maintaining risk, contingency, and countermeasure plan to meet the OTIF and Financial commitments.
• Providing insight and reports into capacity utilization, demand/ supply gaps, risk to execution, and scenario/ contingency planning.
• Drive ideation with partner functions to optimize delivery, productivity, and cost.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Canada Salary Range :CAD90,000.00 - CAD135,000.00/Per Year