At Cepheid, we are passionate about improving health care through fast, accurate diagnostic testing. Our mission drives us, every moment of every day, as we develop scalable, groundbreaking solutions to solve the world’s most complex health challenges. Our associates are involved in every stage of molecular diagnostics, from ideation to development and delivery of testing advancements that improve patient outcomes across a range of settings. As a member of our team, you can make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale, within an environment that fosters career growth and development.

Cepheid is proud to work alongside a community of six fellow Danaher Diagnostics companies. Together, we’re working at the pace of change on diagnostic tools that address the world’s biggest health challenges, driven by knowing that behind every test there is a patient waiting.

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The Production Planner is responsible to plan, schedule, initiate and monitor the movement of materials through the production cycle to ensure optimized support of operational demands. In this role you are highly involved in continuous improvement to make our processes more efficient, improve our use of systems and participate in projects to optimize inventory and secure on-time delivery. With a central role in the organization, you are in collaborating with many internal functions both in Sweden, US and India which gives a dynamic work environment and the possibility to create a large network across the company.

This position is part of Global Planning - Production Planning IVD and will be located in Solna (on site). At Cepheid, our vision is to be the leading provider of seamlessly connected diagnostic solutions.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Optimize the production plan and secure production orders for our 7 filling lines and eliminating unplanned downtime – taking into account material and line restrictions, remnant inventory as well as change overs, lot sizes, customer need etc.
• Have close collaboration with R&D, Engineering and Product life cycle teams in order to plan work requests and new products
• Problem solving to meet challenges with materials, demand changes as well as manufacturability.
• Develop standard work for Planning to minimize manual work and better use our systems and reporting tools
• Participate in, lead and be part of the continuous development of our Daily Management.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant area paired with minimum 5+ years of experience in production planning roles or similar OR Master’s degree paired with minimum 3+ years of experience in planning roles or similar
• Experience from SAP including master data maintenance
• Advanced user in Excel
• Proficiency in English

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• S/4 Hana and APS
• Power BI
• Medical Device, Life science or similar industry
• Swedish

Cepheid, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at danaherbenefitsinfo.com.

This role is on site at our Manufacturing facility in Solna.

At Danaher we bring together science, technology and operational capabilities to accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. Our global teams are pioneering what’s next across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Biotechnology and beyond. For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

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