Join our Operations team as a Production Planner Expert and play a key role in ensuring the efficient planning and execution of production activities. Through effective production and capacity planning, material coordination, and operational performance monitoring, you will help enable reliable product availability and support the successful introduction of new products into operations. Based in Bangalore, India, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure products reach the marketplace on time while supporting our mission of delivering better health for more people.
Grow with us – Your Responsibilities
- Maintain Bills of Materials and production structures in collaboration with Engineering and Design teams
- Create and manage production schedules that support agreed forecasts and customer delivery commitments
- Ensure production lead times remain realistic by aligning plans with material availability and manufacturing capabilities
- Identify, escalate, and expedite material shortages while proactively addressing potential supply constraints
- Control the sequence and priority of materials and services supplied to production cells across a diverse product portfolio
- Partner with Sourcing to resolve existing and anticipated material supply issues, including storage capacity planning, while ensuring procurement delays do not affect manufacturing timelines
- Support business functions through problem solving, stakeholder collaboration, and proactive communication with internal customers
- Facilitate the introduction of new products from project BETA phase through full integration into operations
- Create, analyze, and publish monthly team metrics, weekly capacity reports, and daily production order release and material issue reports
- Attend daily review meetings to understand operational concerns and line stoppage issues and support resolution activities
- Monitor and report key operational performance indicators, including Delivery Reliability, Inventory, and Planned versus Actual performance
- Support S&OP and Demand Planning activities to ensure alignment between demand and operational capacity
- Maintain accurate master data within SAP to support planning and operational excellence
What will convince us
- Academic degree in a business-related discipline
- Minimum 10 years of experience working in a technical environment within a production company
- Experience working with ERP systems
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes and production operations
- Experience in materials management and production scheduling within a production environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and experience with database usage and management
- Effective problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills
- Strong stakeholder collaboration capabilities and a customer-focused mindset
- Self-motivated approach with the ability to work independently and drive results
- Fluent English communication skills
About Sartorius
Sartorius is part of the solution in the fight against cancer, dementia, and many other diseases. Our technologies help translate scientific discoveries into real-world medicine faster, so that new therapeutics can reach patients worldwide.
We look for ambitious team players and creative minds, who want to contribute to this goal and advance their careers in a dynamic global environment.
Join our global team and become part of the solution. We are looking forward to receiving your application.
www.sartorius.com/careers
Skills Required
- Academic degree in a business-related discipline
- Minimum 10 years of experience in a technical environment within a production company
- Experience working with ERP systems
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes and production operations
- Experience in materials management and production scheduling within a production environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
- Experience with database usage and management
- Effective problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills
- Strong stakeholder collaboration capabilities and a customer-focused mindset
- Ability to work independently and drive results
- Fluent English communication skills
Sartorius Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes multiple medical plan options with dental, vision, HSA/FSA, EAP, and wellness resources across many locations. Quality of core medical, dental, and vision is characterized as solid.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with a company match highlighted in U.S. materials and employer‑verified listings. The match is characterized as generous at some sites.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible hours and hybrid/home‑office options are available where roles and regions allow, with role‑dependent perks in some locations. Broader extras such as commuter benefits, discounts, and tuition assistance add optionality where eligible.
Sartorius Insights
What We Do
Sartorius is a leading international partner of life sciences research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. We help our customers #SimplifyProgress from drug discovery to manufacturing so that more people can have access to better medicine. With this, we are #PartOfTheSolution in the fight against diseases worldwide. With innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, the our Lab Products & Services division focuses on laboratories performing research and quality control at pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies as well as academic research institutes. The Bioprocess Solutions division, with its broad product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions, helps customers manufacture biotech medications, vaccines, and cell and gene therapies safely, rapidly, and economically. Based in Göttingen, Germany, Sartorius also has a strong global reach with around 60 production and sales sites worldwide. We regularly expand our portfolio through the acquisition of complementary technologies. In 2023, Sartorius generated sales revenue of around 3.4 billion euros. Currently, around 14,600 employees from around 110 nations are working for customers around the globe. Join our team, partner or collaborate with us.
