Senior Planner

We are a specialty vaccine company that develops, manufactures, and commercializes prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases addressing unmet medical needs.

We have leveraged our expertise and capabilities both to commercialize three vaccines, including the world’s first and only chikungunya vaccine, and to rapidly advance a broad range of vaccine candidates into and through the clinic, including candidates against Lyme disease and Zika.

With operations in Austria, Canada, France, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the U.S., we are committed to making a positive impact on global public health.

Together, we are a global Company which is open to people of all backgrounds. Our diverse and inclusive workforce makes Valneva a great place to work.

Our Planning & Logistics Team are looking to add a Senior Planner into their team.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to the planning team on complex cases.
• Incorporate Manufacturing Planning, Engineering Planning, QC Planning, QA Planning & Logistics Planning according to demand and quality standards.
• Produce capacity plan detail to enable forward planning of manufacturing areas.
• Coordinate workflow for multiple products.
• Plan and prioritize to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay.
• Determine testing services, manpower, equipment, services and raw materials needed to cover production demand to meet MPS.
• Feed changes to plan into Master Production Schedule / Supply plan & MPS.
• Plan activities with service providers aligning to planned shutdowns or services.
• Be key liaison with external labs to plan and forecast samples coming from manufacturing.
• Take the lead at the weekly planning meeting (for your respective planning area).
• Monitor jobs/testing/tasks/trackers to ensure activities will finish on time and within budget.
• Address issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption.
• Obtain output information (number of finished tests/products, on time delivery, percentage of defectives etc).
• Prepare and submit status and performance KPI reports.
• Support and drive effective communications and execution of tasks through daily group planning meetings.
• Create ‘what if’ scenarios based upon operational requirements.
• Maintain planning tools to provide visibility of tasks and progression reporting back to planning group.
• Coordinate external service providers' expectations on planning activities for shutdowns and servicing.
• Manage and control usage of materials feeding back into the planning and supply chain function.
• Raise requisitions for services and obtain appropriate signatory for external activities.
• Effectively manage deviations, CAPA and change controls.
• Provide support to the department and contribute to an environment of energy, enthusiasm, empowerment, continuous improvement and motivation.
• Provide site-wide visibility of the plan for upcoming activities for the weeks and months ahead.
• Monitor capacity and utilization through weekly planning meetings.
• Undertake any other duties as requested by the line manager in accordance with company requirements.
• Ensure daily planning team and weekly planning meetings maintain momentum, stay positive and productive.
• Be proactive by looking for improvement opportunities and guide planners to maintain professionalism with clear communication.

Benefits

• Stock Options
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Gym membership OR fitness allowance
• LinkedIn Learning
• Many others included