Material Resources Planning (MRP) Coordinator

Job description

Details:
Job Purpose:

- Gives analytical support to calculate correct orders level versus the forecasts to assure manufacturing schedules
- Assess correct safety stock values. Proposes modifications of these safety stocks (Articles criticity, manufacturing campaigns, …)
- Manages critical articles orders
- Assess incoming material needs for specific manufacturing campaigns (seasonal conditions)
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Key Responsibilities:

Decisions making :
- Makes proposals and endorses decisions that concern safety stocks levels, minimum batches orders sizes, minimum orders levels
- Develop/ Support plans for work activities for the team over the short and mid-term (incoming materials)
Supply continuity Responsibilities
- Safety stocks are to be managed in order to make sure to prevent any downtime in the production (Belgian primary and secondary manufacturing performance units – more than 15 – and integration of specific worldwide manufacturing site's needs)
Financial / Costs :
- Safety stocks are to be managed in order to make sure that stocks of slow movers are reduced (working capitals, stocks volumes)
Escalation
- Escalade any supply risks to the weekly supply meetings (Supply Governance)
Standardization
- Formalize and standardize Ways of Working and Tools manual books related to the calculation and the management of the safety stocks
People :
- Support to the orders officers (MRP team). No direct people management
Compliance
- Follow procedures and guidance related to the incoming material management.
Problem solving
- Animate problem solving sessions, root causes analysis and definition of corrective and preventive actions for problems related to the incoming materials management
- Analyses solutions and proposes alternatives
- Participate and support task forces related to the incoming materials management
- Communicates and gives transversal views about incoming materials issues abroad the network (stakeholders : Warehouse, Procurement, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Technical Teams, Manufacturing Units, Global Vaccines Supply Chain)
Interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate with employees peers to share best practices (training sessions) and simplify the processes
- Work with a wide range of customers
- Develops involvement and individual initiatives in the teams (no hierarchic link)

Our Offer:

At GSK we provide a supportive working environment, and a range of development challenges and opportunities. We also offer competitive benefits and compensation packages designed to attract and to retain the very best. GSK is proud to promote an open culture, encouraging people to be themselves and giving their ideas a chance to flourish. GSK is an equal opportunity employer.

The department:

Once our pioneering treatments have been developed, they are manufactured to the highest standards and distributed across the regions that need them most. Accomplishing this as efficiently and quickly as possible can quite literally be a matter of life and death. So it's no wonder that more than 70% of our talented workforce is based within Global Industrial Operations - the essential business unit that manufactures and manages the entire vaccine supply process, from customer order to product dispatch on a global scale.
As the name suggests, it operates in a multi-national context across more than 17 sites around the world, working closely in tandem with colleagues from a variety of disciplines and professions.
The department is structured in operating units that focus on various aspects of the manufacturing and supply process. These include Industrialisation (overseeing the transfer of production from R&D to a commercial level), Supply Chain Management and Technical Services.

Our Company:

GSK is one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies – is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.

GSK Vaccines is one of the world's leading vaccine companies, with a comprehensive portfolio of 39 vaccines for infants, adolescents and adults and 15 more in development. We have more than 16,000 people working worldwide to deliver nearly 2 (1.9) million vaccines every day to people in around 90% (172) of the world's countries.
For further information, please visit www.gsk.com.

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Desired profile

Basic qualifications:
- University Degree in Economics, Business Management (Supply Chain)
- Expertise in SAP, MRP tools are a plus

Preferred qualifications:
- Analytical mind, skills in statistics Fluent knowledge in French and in English