Senior Supply Chain Planner

Job Description

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Supply Chain Planner to support complex planning activities within a high-tech pharm/biotech environment in Middleton, Wisconsin. This Long-term Contract position will drive supply, production, inventory, and capacity plans that balance customer needs, operational capability, and business priorities. The role requires close collaboration across purchasing, manufacturing, quality, and supplier teams to address constraints, reduce risk, and maintain reliable product availability.

Responsibilities:
• Direct end-to-end planning for supply, production, inventory, and capacity across critical or strategically significant product areas.
• Convert demand signals, inventory targets, and service expectations into practical plans for purchasing, manufacturing, transfers, and replenishment activities.
• Build planning scenarios that compare the impact of service levels, stock positions, capacity limits, cost considerations, quality factors, and operational trade-offs.
• Analyze planning outputs to identify shortages, excess stock, delayed supply, schedule changes, and other disruptions, then guide timely resolution.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning reviews by presenting assumptions, risks, scenario options, and recommended actions for informed decision-making.
• Proactively address bottlenecks, backlog, inventory exposure, expiration concerns, and other supply risks before they affect operations or customer commitments.
• Work with purchasing and key suppliers to improve lead-time reliability, delivery performance, available capacity, and continuity of supply.
• Support strategic initiatives such as product introductions, network adjustments, transfers, and discontinuations while maintaining planning accuracy and alignment.
• Strengthen planning performance by refining master data, parameters, controls, dashboards, metrics, and standard processes within the assigned scope.
• Act as the escalation resource for complex material, production, quality release, customer commitment, and SAP-related planning issues.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

• At least 3 years of experience in supply chain, production planning, materials planning, purchasing coordination, or manufacturing planning.

• Proven ability to manage complex constraints and develop effective supply, inventory, and capacity scenarios.

• Strong working knowledge of SAP, IFS, or a comparable enterprise planning platform used for supply chain and order management activities.

• Solid analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, measure performance, and recommend actions based on business impact.

• Experience leading discussions across multiple functions and influencing decisions without direct reporting authority.

• Understanding of inventory strategy, planning parameters, capacity analysis, master data governance, and supply chain risk management.

• Exposure to regulated industries, continuous improvement practices, or tools such as Tableau, Snowflake, or AI-enabled analytics is preferred.