Demand & Supply Planning Manager

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

We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Demand & Supply Planning Manager to lead and elevate our Planning Department. This strategic role is responsible for ensuring the development and execution of robust demand and supply plans that align with operational goals and customer expectations. The successful candidate will collaborate cross-functionally to drive forecast accuracy, inventory optimization, and on-time delivery performance.

The main responsibilities include:

Lead, coordinate, and oversee all planning activities to ensure the creation and execution of an achievable rolling production plan that maximizes resource utilization.
Develop and maintain demand plans based on sales forecasts and historical data, aligning with production capabilities to meet customer delivery requirements.

· Collaborate cross-functionally with various stakeholders to ensure production schedules align with site capacity, material availability, new product launches, and on-time delivery to meet customer expectations.

Drive continuous improvement of planning processes, focusing on increasing forecast accuracy, and optimizing inventory levels and stock management.
Provide and analyze both short- and long-term demand forecasts, ensuring alignment with commercial and manufacturing objectives.
Lead, develop and mentor team members, ensuring clear accountability, performance management, and talent development opportunities.

Your profile

The ideal candidate must possess:

A Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or a related field.
Proven relevant experience within the pharmaceutical or a comparable regulated industry, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

· Proficient in planning tools and ERP systems; experience with SAP is strongly preferred.

· Strong analytical capabilities, including forecast development, data analysis, and reporting.

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills across all organizational levels.

· Adaptable, proactive, and able to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

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 Hal Far

Hal Far is our drug product manufacturing site for solid dosage forms. It offers innovative and generic drug products for the global market with a competitive cost structure at Swiss quality level.

Main activities

GMP commercial manufacturing of solid oral pharmaceutical dosage forms
Supply of tablets, film tablets, and hard capsules filled with powder or pellets, in bulk or blister packed
cGMP high-potency suite

Features

1 –10 μg / m³ segregated cGMP production areas for high-potency
7 GMP suites: Dry & wet granulation, Tableting (up to 2 billion unit p.a.), Capsuling (up to 1 billion unit p.a.), Coating (up to 1 billion unit p.a.), Blistering (up to 100 million blisters p.a.)

Strategic importance

CMO for innovative and generic drug products for the global market
Competitive cost structure at Swiss quality level

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