Catalent Pharma Solutions is the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies and development solutions for drugs, biologics and consumer health products. With over 80 years serving the industry, Catalent has proven expertise in bringing more customer products to market faster, enhancing product performance, and ensuring reliable clinical and commercial product supply.
For our site in Cham, Switzerland, we are currently looking for a Supply Planner.
The Supply Planner is responsible for the end-to-end Demand & Supply Planning operations for the Pharma and Consumer Health Business Units in close collaboration with the different manufacturing sites in scope.

The Role

• Oversight of the planning activity for the E2E supply chain, maintaining the communication flow between the different sites (internal or external) of the network.
• Sharing the material/bulk requirement forecast with the sites
  
• Responsible for the reconciliation of the Supply Plan upon input from the manufacturing site re. rough cut capacity planning
  
• Responsible for monitoring production status vs. Supply Plans, anticipating potential issues, setting up priorities in alignment with key stakeholders, setting up contingency plans to ensure on-time and in-full delivery, and identifying root causes in case of delay to continuously mitigate risks
  
• Responsible for timely and precise raw material purchasing placing orders to suppliers/customers planning to meet production/forecast demand
  
• Responsible for the life cycle of the purchase orders, registering and follow-up
  
• Monitors forecasts, and customer orders for unexpected changes and revises plans as required
  
• Support cost reduction, lead time reduction, and inventory reduction programs with suppliers to support company goals.
  

The Candidate

• Bachelor of Science Engineer, Supply or equivalent by experience
  
• Minimum 3 years of experience in supply & planning
  
• Good knowledge of ERP systems SAP, JDE will be an asset
  
• Very good knowledge in Excel
  
• Analytical skills
  
• Customer oriented, frequent contacts
  
• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment
  
• Lean 6 Sigma or APICS certification a plus
  

Our Offer :

• What we offer is an exciting role, a chance to grow and learn new skills in a global company, and in the most challenging quality environment within the pharma industry – a sterile business
  
• Multicultural environment in Cham
  
• Potential for personal development within an international company
  
• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process
  
• Competitive annual salary
  
• Pension plan
  
• 25 days legal holidays
  

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.
Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.


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