Production Planner

For over 25 years, Abcam has been providing tools the scientific community needs to enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases, and metabolic disorders.

We believe that to continue making progress, we need to work together, each bringing our own unique perspectives to make an impact on the world. This community needs people like you: dedicated, agile and above all audacious so we can truly drive science forward.

The Production Planner is responsible for determining actionable and efficient daily, weekly and monthly production schedules, taking into account available resources including material availability, labor, and equipment availability.

This position reports to the Production and Materials Planning Manager and is part of the Operations Planning Department located in Cambridge and will be on site. At Abcam, our vision is to be the most influential life sciences company for researchers worldwide.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

1. Ensure planning schedule delivers against OTIF requirements to meet the needs of the customer, both external and internal.
2. Create, monitor and adjust production schedule as needed based on changing conditions (delayed material deliveries, sick leaves, equipment breakdowns…).
3. Collaborate with the Global Supply Planning team to report on plan execution and capacity issues.
4. Drive resolution of issues such as shortages, spikes and production delays that may influence on-time delivery.
5. Analyse system and data issues then execute fixes to stop repeat issues.
6. Support where appropriate any site projects, identifying process inefficiencies and driving optimisation to deliver increased productivity.

The essential requirements of the job include:

1. Experience in a manufacturing supply chain planning environment, or experience working in a biological or pharmaceutical manufacturing with a solid understanding of planning issues.
2. Experience using supply chain planning aspects of ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle.
3. Solid experience with Microsoft Office.
4. Experience meeting tight deadlines, prioritising tasks and multi-tasking to achieve results.
5. Ability to creatively solve challenging problems.

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

1. Oracle Cloud ERP system.
2. Biological Science Manufacturing.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll 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.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

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