Job Title: Associate Director-Category supply planner
GCL : E
Introduction to role
Are you ready to orchestrate critical materials across a global network so life-changing medicines reach patients without interruption? Do you see yourself turning capacity constraints into resilient plans that keep service high and inventories optimized? This role sits above site, crafting how materials flow across multiple brands and suppliers, and ensuring our complex pipeline moves from molecule to medicine at pace.
You will lead materials planning for a sophisticated, high-impact category across a 3–24 month horizon, balancing global demand and supply while driving visibility, resilience, and performance. Working across internal manufacturing sites and external partners, you will deploy core planning processes, lead consensus forums, and turn data into explicit decisions that safeguard our network. Your leadership will directly protect patient service, optimize working capital, and enable new products to scale.
Accountabilities
Ensure supply is secured in a 3 to 24 month timeframe.



Optimize inventory and align with 0–13 week site plans to meet customer service levels.
Integrated Planning Deployment: Partner with global planning and internal sites to implement inventory design, forecasting, visibility, capacity planning, and scenario planning that drive network-wide decisions.
Critical Materials Consensus: Lead the materials supply consensus in line with the planning calendar, resolve exceptions, bring up risks, and ensure site plans reflect agreed solutions.
Network Issue Resolution: Lead resolution of supply or capacity issues at suppliers impacting multiple sites and brands; align with network planning to define scenarios for decision-making.
Global MRP and Capacity Forecast: Lead all aspects of worldwide materials needs and capacity projection for essential suppliers to direct supply commitments and risk posture.
Supplier and Site Collaboration: Work closely with critical supplie

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