Senior Professional B1 -DPS

GBS responsibility:

• Support & monitor daily planning activities and KPI’s in GBS
• Support SCI in offshored planning processes

Production and Purchase planning responsibility:

• Create and maintain production plans
• Create and maintain purchase plans
• Maintain planning relevant Master Data and evaluate Master Data quality

Planning performance reporting and evaluation of transactional data quality

1. Handle orders from affiliate/regional office

Evaluate new Sales Orders / Process Orders in terms of sufficient capacity and feasibility according to existing production and purchase plans.

• Decide best possible fit to existing plans taking stock levels available capacity and availability of ingoing components into consideration.
• Escalate potential misalignments to relevant stakeholders according to agreement
• Confirm orders
• Continuously engage in dialogue with local “Flow Manager” (GBS point of contact to the local site) and Country Supply Chain Responsible to ensure timely communication in terms of delays to Sales Orders or in cases with significant stock level impacts
  

Orders will be placed manually/cyclic by affiliate/regional office in a horizon up to 52 weeks or created automatically by OMP in a horizon 012 week from today.

1. Create and maintain production plans

Create production plans for all relevant production levels in an agreed horizon with the production areas within appointed responsibility.

• Provide sequenced and levelled production plan once a week taking stock levels available capacity and availability of ingoing components into consideration.
• Convert planned orders to process orders weekly
• Perform Master Data checks weekly
• Do batch allocation / determination and release process orders for production daily
• Alert monitoring daily resolve with help from relevant stakeholders.
• Evaluate dates for Sales Orders and process orders within planner responsibility and update when required
• Communicate production plan to site
• Provide reports for local investigation when Process Orders within Production responsibility and QM lots are past due
• Continuously engage in dialogue with Site MPS to ensure timely rescheduling of upcoming plans in cases with delays or faster in active production plans and release processes.

1. Maintain planning relevant Master Data and evaluate Master Data quality

Maintain planning relevant Master Data in terms of new changed or obsolete values based on input from production and purchase area within appointed responsibility as well as input from the relevant MPS planner or MD organisation in accordance with the defined MD processes and escalates observed Master Data issues to the Steward

Provide relevant correction and evaluation of Master Data quality when receipt of centrally distributed Master Data quality reports and engage in dialogue with “Flow Manager” when area input is needed.

1. Support to onshore team

Have regular meeting with onshore team and support stakeholders with relevant planning reports and Ad hoc analysis. Support Line of business with transition of process and scoping process transfers across regions. Document the process.

1. Planning performance reporting and evaluation of transactional data quality

Report on performance evaluate performance and suggest/implement improvements.

• Logging of root causes when production area deviates from communicated production plan.
• Logging of root causes when production area or suppliers deviates from communicated purchase plans
• Investigate and present preventive/mitigating action to handle deviation.
• Continuously improve area of responsibility

Scope of Authority:

Decision authority within the area of responsibility expected. In time more and more responsibility might be transferred and it will be expected that tasks can be solved with limited support from key stakeholders.

Other areas of responsibility:

Obligations to teach internally in the department or in Novo Nordisk if needed

Communication and Stakeholder interaction:

Key stakeholders

Type of communication

MPS Planner

Production Site

DMS

SoOP

S&OE

PPM Suppliers

Affiliates and regional offices

Area Specific Business Support (Directors)

PS Transfer

Planning Master Data

• Spoken communication used during presentation is required

• PowerPoint presentations are frequently used

• Ability to convey important aspects of potential cases in Supply Chain is required

• Steady communication over phone email and videoconferences with different production sites on an ongoing basis is required

• Communicate production and purchase plans via planning system and mails
• Active participation in the daily/weekly and/or monthly handover meetings

Innovation and change:

Creativity and innovation required to develop and improve processes/products/services and deliver the objectives for the area of responsibility.

Innovation and enhancement are mainly applied within own job area/department initially. When scope expands or onshore teams request it will have an impact across multiple disciplines functions units and/or geographies

Geographic responsibility:

Position based in Global Shared Service centre in Bangalore.

Some travelling may be expected for training purposes between Bangalore and PS Sites

Travelling between Bangalore and appointed Planning areas may be expected to handle complex challenges and sustain relationship

The position requires knowledge about and ability to deal with diverse cultures and practices in all countries where NN is operating and working with the PS sites outside Denmark is as vital importance and it is expected a close and supportive relationship with PS sites network

Knowledge skills and experience:

Minimum knowledge required to fulfil job responsibilities (not actual CV from candidate/employee)

Education:

• Bachelors within supply chain management production or mechanical (or equivalent) from a wellrecognised institute
• Good academic track record and grades

Experience:

• Have been working with planning and support function for at least 2 4 years
• Good knowledge about production planning and purchase process.
• Ability to work on offshored planning processes
• Ability to analyse and process the data
• Good understanding of supply chain concepts (Plan Make Source Deliver and Return and the supporting master data)
• Experience user of the Microsoft Office (Word Excel PowerPoint)
• ECC/R3 experience within Supply Chain is a must OMP can be added advantage.

Personal skills:

• High capability within stakeholder management and high collaboration skills across cultures
• High quality mindset and ability to finalise actions/tasks within deadline
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English