Job Title: Supplier Chain Planner
Location: Pittsburgh, PA 15238
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Pay Rate: $30-30$/hr.
Overview:
Tekwissen group, is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.
Job Description:
POSITION SUMMARY:
- The role will support the purchasing of electrical and mechanical raw components to support Medical Device manufacturing.
POSITION DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintains and updates all reporting on critical parts suppliers
- Tracking high priority order and coordinating with the multiple areas to ensure expeditious handling, ensuring proper escalation of issues if needed.
- Develops and issues detailed product requirements for assigned suppliers, necessary to achieve customer delivery commitments and to maintain inventory targets, where applicable
- Accountable for the analysis of supply shortfalls impacting internal and/or external customer requirements and ensure root cause identification and corrective action determination.
- Demonstrates technical expertise to increase efficiency and flexibility of department
- Leads supply activities and expedite with the appropriate departments as necessary to insure customer delivery commitments are met.
- Review and disposition materials requested by internal customers, where applicable and monitor performance.
- Responsible for and maintains SAP procurement parameters for assigned area of responsibility.
- Prepare and issue reports related to supply activities and supplier delivery performance.
- Interacts with supplier quality to drive resolution of supplier quality issues
REQUIREMENTS/PREFERENCES:
Education Requirement(s):
- BA/BS required in (Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Mathematics, Business, Information Technology)
Skill & Competency Requirements:
- 5+ years of total experience, including minimum of 2 years in a Product Supply discipline
- Excellent presentation, training, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to influence other members of the organization to help achieve goals and increase performance
- Ability to build relationships and partnerships within the organization
- Ability to work on projects of low complexity with direction
- Demonstrated problem solving abilities
- Strong attention to detail
- Experience with Microsoft Office tools
- Proficient in in the MM module of SAP and also has a general understanding of MRP
- Strong Excel skills
TekWisen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
