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Production Planner
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Industry: animal health / Segment: livestock vaccines and diagnostics / Location: Brescia,Italy / Contract: Permanent contract, Full Time, Possibility of working from home (1-2 days/week)
Our offer
In this role, you will join in the Supply Chain & Procurement department and take on the role of Production Planner, reporting directly to the Supply Chain Planner Coordinator.
You will primarily participate in and contribute to production planning by gathering information from the Sales / Sales Forecast department to provide production with the detailed resources required to meet production constraints, optimise production lines and fulfilment times, and manage demand planning.
Main responsibilities
- Receiving, analysing and consolidating forecasts and customer orders relating to the organic and pharmaceutical product lines, ensuring consistency between commercial demand and production capacity.
- Planning and scheduling production across multiple lines and product levels (semi-finished and finished products) whilst adhering to capacity constraints, delivery times and customer service targets.
- Entry, management and monitoring of production orders via company management systems (AS400/Microsoft Business Central).
- Use of APS (Advanced Planning System) to simulate production scenarios, optimise line utilisation and balance workloads.
- Ongoing collaboration with the Sales, Production and Purchasing departments to align production plans, manage operational issues and monitor commercial priorities.
- Monitoring and updating key planning and service KPIs (service level, line utilisation, lead time, stock coverage, forecast accuracy).
- Structured reporting and data analysis to support the Production, Sales, Controlling and Management departments.
- Leading demand planning activities, through analysis of demand trends, monitoring of variances between forecasts and actual sales, and contributing to the improvement of forecast accuracy.
- Operational management of several projects aimed at improving planning and supply chain processes, involving coordination between different business functions.
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of planning processes, stock management and information flows between business functions.
Qualifications
- bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business or Management Engineering, or a technical/scientific diploma;
- 1-3 years of experience in similar roles;
- Knowledge of business processes, organisational structure and the working methods to be applied in relation to production planning;
- Good familiarity with MRP and ERP (Business Central) tools, and excellent knowledge of Excel;
- Good knowledge of English, both written and spoken;
- Strong organizational and time management skills;
- Teamwork skillsand problem solving attitude;
- Previous experience in planning/scheduling and demand planning;
- Previous experience in the pharmaceutical and/or biological sector would be an advantage.
What does Vaxxinova offer you?
Working at Vaxxinova means working in an open and professional environment where we value respect, open communication, and integrity. You will work in a pleasant team of professionals in an informal environment.
Besides a good salary, Vaxxinova has excellent fringe benefits, and we foster continuous development and learning.
- A position in a dynamic and growing multinational company;
- 2 days of remote working per week after the probatory period;
- Restaurant tickets.
About Vaxxinova
Vaxxinova develops, produces and markets a wide range of innovative licensed and autogenous vaccines to protect livestock and fish against disease. We create high quality solutions to improve animal health and to support the business of our customers. We believe that innovation and excellence in research are essential to produce premium products that match the current and future requirements in animal health.
The Vaxxinova Group, headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, was officially named and founded in 2010 but can rely on expertise and presence originating from the 1960’s. Our current network comprises production, research & development, sales and diagnostic facilities in 10 countries: Brazil, Chile, Germany, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Norway, the Netherlands, Thailand and the USA. Vaxxinova is active in more than 75 countries.
Our production facility in Chignolo Po, Italy focuses on the development and production of poultry and aqua vaccines to support the European, African, and Asian markets.
Vaxxinova belongs to the EW Group, a German-based family-owned company, specialized in Life Sciences;
genetics, diagnostics and healthcare sectors. The EW Group is highly committed to R&D and active in more than 100 countries.
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