Manager – Global Supply Planning (GSP) Insights

Indianapolis, IN
$57,750-129,800 per year
Permanent
Full-time

1 day ago

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.Position Brand Description:The Global Supply Planning Insights Manager is responsible for assessing the production plans being developed by our Network Planners that are distributed in monthly high-level network production plans to manufacturing sites. This assessment of the plan needs to reflect the current demand and supply assumptions including inputs from senior manufacturing management and Business Units as well as recent sales and manufacturing supply performance, inventory levels and any product family technical agenda projects. It is important that the Global Supply Planning Insights Manager works collaboratively with the GSC Network Orchestrated Planners to understand any current or upcoming supply limitations and look for insights to enable most effective and optimized supply plans.The role will require strong teamwork within Global Supply Chain across Global Supply Planning, Digitalization and Analytics to effectively utilize existing and new tools to enable the most effective analysis of the production capacity to the priorities set by leadership. This would include all tools such as: Kinaxis, AI, Power BI relevant to the planning process. To include collaborating with Lilly owned and external manufacturing sites and with Global product owners to understand the individual products, resources, capacities & constraints, technical agendas, marketplace dynamics, regulatory changes, etc. This position is key to ensuring the reliable supply of medicine to our patients.Successful candidates will have an innovative and strategic mindset - able to apply deep technical understanding to meet the needs of the business and will be able to influence across functions and geographies and at multiple levels within the organization.Key Objectives / Deliverables:

Work with Network Planning Team on delivery of the desired monthly Network production plan by Site to enable detailed evaluation and integration into the local Site S&OP process. Ensure this statement of demand is in the planning systems (SAP, etc) and represents a planning horizon of 3-24 months and includes all launch/technical (flavor) agenda assumptions
Liase with Global product owners and Manufacturing Sites for annual Network business planning
Enhance the capability within Global Supply Planning to execute scenario planning
To effectively implement Maestro tool (Kinaxis) and capitalize on the emerging artificial intelligence capabilities driven by the Advanced Intelligence organization
Work with the Kinaxis tool to set up constraints and objective functions.
Automate, plan, and execute large-scale scenario analyses to ensure supply robustness.
Engage in the implementation and application of optimization techniques.
Work with GSC Analytics, Data and reporting teams to integrate with existing data
Develop presentations and written communications for manufacturing senior leadership, business units, affiliates, and global launch teams
Identify and influence the development of collaborative solutions working across business units, manufacturing, and other key stakeholders
Identify and prepare topics for the GS&OP meetings, including strategic discussions on capacity actions, supply constraints, and key projects (including launch updates)
Ensure supply continuity during complex global projects such as source changes and flavor management in complex manufacturing changes
Collaborate with Strategic Facilities Planning for network projects via modeling, scenario development, and demand analysis

Basic Requirements:

BS or MS degree (Supply Chain or Engineering degrees preferred)
Hands-on experience with optimization, supply chain modeling
Knowledge of decision-making under uncertainty, eg. stochastic
1-4+ years of supply chain experience

Additional Preferences:

Strong knowledge of SAP and associated manufacturing and planning systems
Strong knowledge of Kinaxis for Supply Planning
Manufacturing site planning experience
Effective at communicating complex messages succinctly via written and oral communications
Strong excel capability for problem solving, system optimization, and scenario analysis
Demonstrated leadership on cross-functional teams
General business skills – Business savvy, flexible and adaptable, able to deal with ambiguity. Strong self-management and organizational skills.
Experience collaborating effectively with manufacturing sites and functional leadership, business units, and affiliate leadership
Demonstrate global awareness and be willing to work globally among different time zones
APICS certification
1-4 years of pharmaceutical industry experience
General understanding of the concepts and tools of project management

Other Information:

Work shift: Full time, normal work shift
Travel required (% of time) – 5-10%

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