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Job Description

Job Title: Production Planner

Location:  Brooklyn Park, MN

About the role:

As a Production planner, you will coordinate the production of drug substance products and in house produced semi-finished goods while balancing plant efficiency, distribution, and inventory requirements. You will establish, manage, review, and communicate the master production plan to achieve site production objectives. You will be responsible for supporting the supply, storage, transportation, and distribution of equipment, materials, and goods within the organization. This role helps ensure efficient operations by applying core supply chain management principles and supporting various processes. You will report to Supply Chain Operations & Systems Improvement Manager.

How you will contribute:

• Generate, maintain, and facilitate executable production plans as well as review of Material Resource Planning and release of process orders.
• Monitor status of schedules. Communicate and help to resolve impact to delivery dates.
• Recognize, investigate, and resolve material and machine constraints
• Actively participate in daily production meetings and attend other associated meetings as required.
• Primary liaison between Supply Chain, Quality, Warehouse, and Manufacturing personnel to ensure schedule optimization and sales order on time delivery.
• Work with Production and Maintenance to support planning for preventative maintenance program to ensure that the manufacturing plan isn’t interrupted
• Support demand planning processes, understanding their impact on supply chain
• Clearly communicate complex data and Supply Chain analytics to Site Management and to drive business decisions.
• Identify opportunities for refinement of scheduling strategies and process improvement.
• Develop and take ownership for long and short-term capacity models to identify potential operational constraints.
• Complete mandatory training within required timeframe.
• Critical thinker with a focus on details when troubleshooting complex production systems.
• Resolve and de-escalate potential resource conflicts and issues before they impact production.
• Strong analytical abilities with techniques, unconditional commitment to teamwork and communication.

What you bring to Takeda:

• Bachelor’s degree Supply Chain or related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in planning/supply chain management or scheduling functions using MRP and/or an ERP system preferred.
• SAP ERP system knowledge in a GMP manufacturing facility strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook. 
• Documented leadership ability in process improvement techniques to reduce costs, improve service levels and manage capacity.

Important Considerations:

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may:

• May be required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) and other clean room garments daily. This may include safety shoes, safety glasses, aprons, face shields, lab coats, full body gowns, hair nets and gloves and hearing protection.
• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.
• Work in a cold, wet environment.
• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.
• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.
• In general, the position requires a combination of sedentary work and walking around the facility.
• Some travel may be required; less than 20%.

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

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