Materials Planner III
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Job Description - Manufacturing Planner III

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information

Now is an exciting time to join our Nashville team, a team dedicated to ensuring our customers receive the products they need to achieve their scientific goals - quickly, reliably, and safely. If you believe in working the right way for the right reason join our growing team today!

Discover Impactful Work:

The Materials Planner III enables the continued success of the Single-Use Technology Division (SUD) by efficiently demonstrating the abilities to plan and order raw materials used in the manufacturing process. They ensure that master data is maintained appropriately to enable an accurate systemic signal to be generated that can be used as a baseline in our ordering process.

A day in the life:

• Share standard methodologies with other sites within business unit and be regarded as Subject Matter Authority in the area of Materials Planning
  
• Use MPS/MRP to drive materials planning and ordering of raw materials
  
• Lead key item settings in ERP System to ensure proper system functionality
  
• Plan and schedule MTS products and monitor excess inventory
  
• Monitor and reconcile exception messages
  
• Handles push-in / push-out of material delivery dates directly with suppliers to allow for the right balance of production plan stability and inventory investment
  
• Raise backorders or supplier performance issues to Procurement Team
  
• Ensure accurate rolling component forecasts are available to support strategic sourcing process and ongoing communication on future needs with our suppliers
  
• Create inventory projections and reporting across Raw Materials, WIP and Finished Goods
  
• Provide inputs for Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) and Sales, Inventory & Operations (SIOP) Meeting to facilitate discussions about Excess & Obsolete inventory and key shortages / excess
  
• Coordinate closely with Operations and Manufacturing Planning to optimize schedule adherence
  
• Collaborate with various departments to minimize schedule changes within the frozen window
  
• Train as a backup for other members of the team
  
• Engage in continuous improvement activities through PPI
  
• Support expansion and harmonization projects
  

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor's Degree required in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
  
• Preference for Certification in APICS CPIM, CSCP, ISM CPSM, Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt (or higher)
  

Experience

• 3+ Years Minimum Experience in Materials Planning and/or Supply Chain Preferred
• Proven experience in Procurement, Materials Planning or Supply Chain
  
• Planning and procurement experience in a manufacturing environment applying MRP/ERP and APS (Oracle, ASCP, SAP, JDE, M2M, server-based systems)
  
• Proficient in managing and analyzing data in Excel
  
• Demonstrated understanding of manufacturing concepts and principles, finite scheduling, product flow, data management, and supply chain planning
  

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $30 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies, or increasing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

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