Strategic Material Planner for Pharma Supply Chain

GSK plc; King of Prussia (PA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK plc in King of Prussia, PA is hiring a Material Planner to ensure reliable supply of materials for production and lab operations. You will partner across Supply Chain, Warehouse, Quality, QC, Procurement and other functions to maintain inventory levels and identify supply risks.

This role offers opportunities to lead key activities, maintain SAP planning data, and drive cost savings while aligning with quality requirements. Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 1+ years of experience in manufacturing, supply chain, material planning, production, laboratory operations, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Maintain updates of key SAP material planning data to best utilize our planning system and responsible for ensuring purchase orders are placed on time and monitored to maintain appropriate inventory levels
• Execute and improve standard process around material expiry, re-evaluation, cycle counting
• Support improvements to execution of site key business process within the scope of raw materials – such as financial budgeting, forecasting, expiry and site impact assessments for new products
• Collaboration with site scheduling, warehouse, quality and QC to resolve issues and implement process improvements around raw materials to drive time and cost savings
• Establish and maintain KPIs utilizing supply chain best practices to monitor plants raw material inventory and supplier performance
• Identify potential raw material supply risks impacting the ability to maintain the production schedule, inventory targets, or supply chain policies. Take appropriate actions to resolve issues by collaborating cross functionally.
• Trouble-shoot SAP related issues and/or develop as an SAP Super user
• Implement recommendations from global procurement to align with sourcing strategies, drive cost and inventory savings, while ensuring alignment with technical and quality requirements
• Develop relationships with suppliers including providing vendor forecasts
• Execute vendor change notifications and change controls related to materials including alternative sources

Skills

Cold Chain

Customer-Focused

Data Integrity

Digital Fluency

GxP Regulations

Inventory Management

Lean Management

Logistics Management

Problem Solving

Production Orders

Product Knowledge

Risk Awareness

Supply Chain Operations

Supply Chain Sustainability

Third Party Logistics Management

Warehouse Management

Education

Bachelor's degree

APICS certification or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Excel

AI tools

Job description

GSK plc in King of Prussia, PA is hiring a Material Planner to ensure reliable supply of materials for production and lab operations. You will partner across Supply Chain, Warehouse, Quality, QC, Procurement and other functions to maintain inventory levels and identify supply risks.

This role offers opportunities to lead key activities, maintain SAP planning data, and drive cost savings while aligning with quality requirements. Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills are essential.