Job Introduction

Thanks for checking out our vacancy, we’re delighted you want to learn more about Dechra Pharmaceuticals.

Dechra are a growing, global specialist within the world of veterinary pharmaceuticals. Our expertise is in the development, manufacture, marketing and sales of high quality products exclusively for veterinarians worldwide.

Here at Dechra, our values are embedded within our culture and thrive within our family of almost 2000 colleague globally. From manufacturing to marketing, (D)edication, (E)njoyment, (C)ourage, (H)onesty, (R)elationships and (A)mbition are at the heart of our everyday operations and the way we do business.

Role Responsibility

So, what will you be doing? This role has a broad and varied remit and the successful candidate will have responsibility for duties including:

• create and manage supply plan and inventory level for all relevant external or internal customers
• maintain internal and external customer service level for finished products
• use the supply planner dashboard to take forward demand forecast information by SKU and compare it with existing inventory and future pending purchase orders (resupplying inventory) and create a dynamic inventory balance
• active participation in S&OP process, preparation of all relevant information and proactive approach to all inconsistencies in product supply
• issues weekly production schedules and provides daily updates through facilitation of the daily cross-functional supply meeting
• preparation and distribution of supply reports before meetings, on local level or Group level
• accuracy of all planning master data important for supply planning in ERP system and other planning documents/tools (BOM, MOQ, safety stock, order policies and other key parameters)
• communication and relationship to Group Supply and Sales related to supply and supply planning policies
• respond to supply related questions (product availability, issue resolution)
• co-ordinate new product introduction and support product transfers according to agreed plan
• preparation, maintain and analyse of relevant KPI’s and propose actions for improvements
• generates inventory reports and provides information as needed to various internal customers
• inventory optimisation
• risk inventory management (short expiration date, turnover rate) and proposal for actions to avoid inventory write offs
• participation in product costing and product costing simulation for NPI and product transfers
• recommend supply cost saving proposals
• propose and lead Supply planning improvement projects
• maintaining and development of relationship with Commercial, Production, QC, QA, MS&T

The Ideal Candidate

Here at Dechra we pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and we embrace candidates from all walks of life. We’re particularly keen to hear from those who have/are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or minimum 5 years of relevant experience
• strong knowledge and experience in demand and supply planning, MRP, production planning and inventory control
• experienced planner with minimum 2 years’ experience in supply planning or purchasing
• experience planning in an Sales and Operations Planning process (preferred)
• APICs qualified (preferred)
• experience working in multi-national supply organisations dealing with multiple countries and suppliers (preferred)
• working knowledge of site ERP system (preferred)

About the Company

All applications received are reviewed by our internal talent acquisition team and we will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. Should you not hear back from us within 28 days please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies which may be suitable and we encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site. For any questions or queries, please contact us at recruituk@dechra.com

The legal employer on behalf of Dechra Pharmaceuticals in Croatia is Genera Inc.  

Genera Inc. is a part of the Dechra Group since 2015

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