Country United States
City Grafton, Wisconsin
Functional Area Operations
Job Group Supply Chain
Employment Type Permanent Contract
Working time Full-time
At its locations around the world, Siegfried offers employees exciting career opportunities in international settings. We cultivate multidisciplinary cooperation and encourage our staff to actively shape and influence their careers. This approach, coupled with our dynamic working environment, make Siegfried an attractive employer.
Your role
The incumbent is responsible assisting with the administration of order and import operations to ensure the timely distribution of materials ordered by our US and overseas customers. This is accomplished by advising customers of product availability, performing accurate order entry, communicating with the planning and warehouse facilities to ensure on-time delivery, and negotiating revisions with customers if necessary. The second function will also work with the site planner and maintain the production schedule by making weekly updates and real-time changes, informing the site of these changes, and evaluating the feasibility of the changes.
Purchasing Support:
- Facilitate uninterrupted procurement activities for the Grafton site.
- Operational procurement of direct spend for Grafton.
- Operational & strategic procurement of indirect spend for Grafton.
- Builds and maintains sustainable relationships with suppliers.
- Improves supply conditions and considering all costs along the value chain.
- Acts according to Siegfried's quality guidelines and according to national/international GMP/GDP regulations.
Material Planning:
- Drive cross-functional communication with site procurement, chemical development, production, production planner, and the Quality Unit to ensure the needed materials for production are ready in advance of their need.
- ERP ownership ranges for bill of materials to data mining to master data. Responsible for reviewing current state and any changes of the ERP pieces with the appropriate departments.
- Based on MRP demand, create and submit needed requisitions (e.g. cleaning materials, consumables, direct materials, indirect materials) with procurement. Follow up on submitted POs through receipt and release.
- Measure and publish KPI’s of critical factors such as quantity alignment with demand and limited excess/obsolescence. Responsible to speak to the «why» behind the KPI information.
- Take a leading role to resolve problem situations affecting material planning. Develop contingency plans to ensure there are no disruptions to planned production.
- Prepare and report on material risk/mitigation plans.
-Adheres to all applicable SHE and cGMP regulations
-Supports departmental efficiency and continuous business process improvements.
-Adheres to personal and departmental moral, ethical, legal, and behavioral conduct that is in compliance with the Siegfried Code of Conduct.
- This position includes all other responsibilities that may be necessary to fulfill the duties associated with the position or as may be assigned.
Your profile
- A B.A./B.S. Degree in Supply Chain or Life Sciences.
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
- Experience with the SAP system is a plus.
- Experience in pharmaceutical or chemical industry is a plus.
- Knowledge of cGMP practices are a plus.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
- Emphasis will be put on excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Must be proficient in MS Office.
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Essential to be detail oriented.
- Must be able to prioritize and work under time pressure.
- Must have excellent math skills.
- Vital to be creative, assertive, and a data problem solver.
Working at Siegfried
Siegfried's work environment is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried possesses a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to create a competitive advantage. Siegfried places highest priority on providing a flexible, diverse and discrimination-free working environment in which employees can develop personally and professionally, advance innovation and deliver superior performance. We strive to provide a work environment where employees can take on challenging jobs and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and technical development and can benefit from the success of our company. The company regulations in respect of compensation and career development opportunities apply to all Siegfried sites. Additional conditions of employment are governed by location-specific circumstances, legislation and customs.
Who we are
In the Midst of People’s Lives – Across the Globe
The Siegfried Group is one of the world’s leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) developing and producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), intermediates and finished dosage forms. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical capabilities into a single business model.
The Siegfried name stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility and safety. Present in Europe, Asia and North America, we serve a broad global customer base from major international pharmaceutical companies down to small biologic-pharmaceutical organizations. For them we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale to finished products. We integrate our offer seamlessly into the customers’ value chain. Our comprehensive services range from early-stage Research & Development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies and method development all the way through to manufacturing services, ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production.
We are able to produce about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drug substances used in medicine. Moreover, we produce 20 percent of global demand for caffeine. Consequently, nearly 1 billion individuals come into contact with Siegfried products.
What we do in Grafton
The Siegfried Acceleration Hub in Grafton specializes in early-phase development and manufacturing services, including services for projects with highly potent APIs.
Competencies
· Early-phase development and manufacturing
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