Job Title: Senior Production Planner

Duration: Permanent

Location: Waltham, MA

Agile Working: Flexible working, approximately 50:50 Onsite:WFH. Open to job share

About this role

As part of our rapid growth at Abcam (22% growth in 2022!), we are looking for a Senior Production Planner who will be responsible for creating production schedules and ensure these production schedules meet the deadlines of our customers . It’s an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to develop and progress as we are building our Production Planning team here in our Waltham office and global S&OP process and systems.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for determining actionable and efficient daily, weekly and monthly production schedules, taking into account available resources including material availability, labor, and equipment availability.
• Adjust production schedule as needed based on changing conditions (delayed material deliveries, sick leaves, equipment breakdowns…)
• Ensure planning schedule meets the needs of the customers and the business (inventory policy). Ensuring plans are created to deliver a best in class on time in full delivery (OTIF).
• Work collaboratively with the global supply planning team to report on plans execution and capacity issues.
• Work collaboratively with the Demand execution team to strategically prioritize customer orders.
• Lead resolution of issues such as shortages, spikes and production delays that may influence on-time delivery.
• Strengthen systems to guarantee production schedules align with set targets and budgets.
• Troubleshoot system and process issues
• Create, maintain and report set KPI’s to outline production activities and effectiveness and assist effective decision-making in the organization.
• Be instrumental in building the production and materials team.

About You

You will have significant Production Planning experience gained in a high volume manufacturing business with a solid understanding of planning issues and be able to identify issues and challenges from the data available. This could be in a biotech or pharmaceutical business but may also be in consumer goods, automotive, or other high volume environment. Along with solid experience with Microsoft Excel, you will have a good level of expertise in the planning aspects of ERP systems such as Oracle or SAP.

You will be adept at stakeholder management across other areas of the business with the ability to meet tight deadlines, prioritize tasks and consistently deliver against KPI’s. You are likely to be degree educated in a related discipline with at least 3 years industry experience along with a creative approach to problem solving.

If this sounds like you and you’d like to be a part of a fast-paced, growing business with the vision to become the most influential company and best-loved brand in life sciences, please apply now!

Pay and Benefits

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer an attractive and flexible benefits package (including our Abcam Growth share scheme, 18 weeks full paid maternity leave and 6 weeks full paid paternity leave), a culture focused on well-being and opportunities for growth and development, and a highly flexible working environment.

What’s more, as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer, we are recognized globally as an organization that’s diverse, inclusive and supports women in the workplace.

Inclusion & Diversity

Abcam is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes all employment decisions without regard to age, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Us

An idea conceived in a University of Cambridge laboratory in 1998, Abcam plc (www.abcamplc.com) began life as an innovative and entrepreneurial start-up, spearheaded by like-minded individuals who shared a common purpose of providing the scientific community with quality antibody reagents, as well as trustworthy and up-to-date information about their uses and limitations. Abcam has now grown to become a leading supplier of protein research tools to life scientists, whilst always maintaining the core collaborative values assumed at its inception.

Abcam now supports life science researchers in their quest to understand the cause of disease and ultimately offer improvements to diagnoses and treatments. To achieve this outcome, the company both develops and manufactures its own products in specialist facilities across the globe, and sources from over 400 partners, offering scientists the newest, most innovative and highest quality research tools available globally, regardless of source. With a customer base of research scientists who require high performance products with detailed technical specifications, 64% of global researchers use Abcam products.

We are incredibly proud to be recognised as the ‘5th Best Place to Work in the UK in 2022’, as per Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Award. Our culture is driven by our dedicated, agile and audacious community of professionals who are driven by a combined purpose and sense of belonging.

Effective January 1, 2022, all U.S.-based employees are required to be fully vaccinated including the booster shots, (once eligible) against COVID as a condition of employment at Abcam. Employees with a sincerely held religious belief and/or disability impacting their ability to obtain the COVID vaccine can request a reasonable accommodation.

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