Associate Specialist - Buyer

Job Description

The Position

Associate Specialist Buyer is responsible for planning and coordinating material availability and production schedules to ensure smooth operations, meet KPIs, and support continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Review material availability on weekly production plan and schedule.

• Perform inventory analysis and input on potential discard & availability materials for supporting production planning to optimize operation costs/efficiencies.

• Interact with internal and external customers to ensure timely execution of production plans and ensure customer service and customer satisfaction goals are met.

• Interacts with CoE or SME if required related with all of issue for production planning.

• Monitor and ensure timely reporting on KPI (i.e., customer service level, OTIF, ICSL etc.).

• Supporting regular team communication and providing continuous feedback.

• Perform planning activities for incoming material with ensuring on the KPI achievements.

• Perform planning activities in outbound shipment with focused on market prioritization and KPI achievements

• Maintaining technical skills and knowledge up to date and promote a culture of continuous learning.

• Executing production plan in planning area activities. k. Supporting production execution in planning area activities.

• Provides data to identify and facilitate Continuous Improvement opportunities.

• Responsible to keep abreast site safety & quality requirement and specific compliance policy and standards at daily work.

• Demonstrates quality leadership behavior, promotes a quality culture, and proactively supports cGMP compliance.

• Promote the site SHE (Safety, Health, and Environment) culture, including the interdependency safety culture.

• As back up for Buyer Component.

Required Education, Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in business studies and/or economics and industrial engineering.

• Fresh graduate is also acceptable with excellent knowledge of supply chain management.

• Experience 2 years in production planning and material management is preferable.

• Learning from routine work assignments to develop professional skillset at entry level

• Communicates information, asks questions and checks for understanding.

• Accountable for technical contribution to project team or sub-team.

• Works only with established procedures, technologies, and methodologies.

• Begin/willingness to learn about end-to-end supply chain processes.

• Begin/willingness to learn about customer/channel/market insight.

• Begin/willingness to learn about relationship management.

• Begin/willingness to learn about supply chain risk and compliance.

• Begin/willingness to learn about supply chain metrics & improvement.

• Begin/willingness to learn about information systems knowledge.

• Begin/willingness to learn about sales & operation planning.

• Begin/willingness to learn about network planning.

• Begin/willingness to learn about master production scheduling.

• Begin/willingness to learn about inventory management processes.

• Having knowledge in use of SAP & APO- Good in English both written and verbal for day-to-day communication.

• Preferably Six Sigma (demonstrated knowledge of Operational Excellence tools and methodology) qualification APICS, CPIM and/or CSCP and/or CPM (Certification in Purchasing Management) certification if highly desirable.

• Having knowledge of cGMP in manufacturing/packaging operations, operational excellence, and materials handling systems.

Secondary Job Description

Who We Are:

Organon delivers ingenious health solutions that enable people to live their best lives. We are a $6.5 billion global healthcare company focused on making a world of difference for women, their families and the communities they care for. We have an important portfolio and are growing it by investing in the unmet needs of Women’s Health, expanding access to leading biosimilars and touching lives with a diverse and trusted portfolio of health solutions.  Our Vision is clear: A better and healthier every day for every woman.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from candidates with a diverse background. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our applicants. 

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