Supply Chain Planner - Unlicensed Medicines
Permanent Full Time Role - Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Citywest, Dublin
The Role
To work alongside the Procurement Team to ensure optimal stock holding and management at all times. To cultivate vendor relationships. Stakeholder management internally, with emphasis on Customer Service and Warehouse.
Why apply for this role?

• Be part of a fast growing sector in Ireland
• Opportunities to work on internal projects and process improvements
• Work as part of a growing team
• Join as Irish PLC

Responsibilities

• Support the Strategic Procurement Manager to ensure department procurement targets are achieved each month
• Work with Strategic Sourcing Specialist and fellow Supply Chain Planners to effectively run the day to day operations of stock management and procurement
• Support Strategic Procurement Manager and Business Unit Manager with stock, sales and GM analysis as required
• Ensure stock is managed efficiently to guarantee customer demand is met at all times
• Maintain accurate forecasting with vendors on a weekly basis
• Ensure relationships with vendors are maintained to the highest standards through a suite of vendor KPIs.
• Measure and track each vendor’s service level, basing procurement decisions on performance
• Work closely with the Warehouse and Wholesale teams to ensure the swift and efficient handling of all products into the Uniphar Warehouse Management System
• Work closely with Uniphar Accounts Payable to ensure the prompt and efficient payment of all vendors, working to release any blocked invoices and regularly check vendor account statements to ensure there is no risk to any vendor accounts
• Maintain a schedule of supplier Out Of Stocks and monitor, re-ordering at appropriate dates and ensuring stock update information is disseminated to retail, hospital teams
• Generate and place orders for vendors in line with ordering strategy
• Action team sourcing enquiries
• Maintain all open PO’s on the system using outstanding line reports and liaise with vendor appropriately regarding results
• Establish close relationships with Allphar KAMs and manufacturers, develop a strategy for managing product shortages and discontinuation updates
• Review, monitor and action excess, lapsed or expired stock
• Support Strategic Procurement Manager with department projects as required
• Continuously work to identify possible business development opportunities to contribute to growing the business

Requirements

• 2 years+ Supply Chain experience
• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry in Ireland is preferred.
• Excellent Forecasting skills and Excel skills
• SAP experience is an advantage

Uniphar – Who we are
With a workforce of more than 3000 employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA, and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and Med Tech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world. Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our highly expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech and Uniphar Pharma.
Supply Chain & Retail
Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare and animal health products to pharmacies and hospital nationwide. The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives. In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacy to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar-owned pharmacies under the Life, Allcare, Mc Cauleys and Hickeys symbol brands.
Pharma – On Demand
The On-Demand business is a specialist medical supply business that sources and distributes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and consumable supplies to healthcare professionals in over 160 countries worldwide. We have offices in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and New Zealand. The company’s main divisions encompass everything from International Sales through Sales to NGO’s and Charities, Clinical Trials Supply, Imported (Unlicensed Medicines), Sexual Health Supplies, and the storage and distribution of medical products and devices for third parties.
Culture at Uniphar
Uniphar is a combination of many businesses each with its own identity, culture, values, and ways of working. Our overarching culture narrative is inclusive of each of these stores. Uniphar lives and breathes four key pillars which unpin and support our culture.
We have a people first approach - we do the right thing. We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience is embodied in our way of working. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.
Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This diversity fuels our business and culture.
Sustainability
Sustainability is at the core of what we do and is deeply embedded in our business strategy. We want to contribute positively to the people and the world around us. Running our business in a sustainable way ensures that Uniphar will continue to prosper in the long-term. We are focused on ensuring that each of the five pillars of our sustainability strategy are a fundamental part of our decision-making process.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: €32,000.00-€43,000.00 per year
Benefits:

• Bike to work scheme
• Company pension
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Store discount
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, CO. Dublin