Work Schedule
Other
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
As part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 130,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
With a growing installed base, the service organization and service logistics in particular is a very multifaceted organization! We manage all spare parts in the Materials & Structural Analysis Division (MSD) and the Global Planner reports to the Manager Global Planning Service Logistics. We work together in an international team of colleagues across different time zones to pro-actively ensure spare parts availability across our global warehousing network.
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Together with the team, you own and plan $150M worth of global inventory and decide to buy, repair, and scrap for a portfolio of around 9000 spare parts. This is accomplished by using the planning software Servigistics and applying appropriate planning practices, knowledge on statistical forecasting, and insights gained from cross-departmental teamwork. The global planner will need to collaborate with our buying team, global technical support team, procurement, operations engineering, quality and product lifecycle management.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing $140M in global inventory.
- Confirm statistical demand forecasting in multiple warehouses for a portfolio of spare parts.
- Collaborate with multiple cross-function teams to gather information on key forecast drivers resulting in actionable advise towards the Service Logistics Director.
- Work with regional logistics and field service teams across the globe to lead appropriate execution of the global inventory plan.
- Align forecasts with procurement and suppliers, enabling long term capacity planning within the supply chain while owning solving critical shortages on short-term.
- Be involved in cross-functional teams and work towards resolving supply chain challenges.
- Resolve obsolescence challenges as well as parts quality issues.
- Continuously work on improving the overall service supply chain setup by combining multiple data sources.
- Drive for continuous improvement in multi-disciplinary projects while representing service logistics.
Requirements
- MSc degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business or related field.
- Possesses knowledge of service businesses, statistical forecasting, inventory management and project management.
- Multiple years of experience working in supply chain , preferably in a high tech service environment.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to manage multiple, challenging priorities at once.
- Continuous improvement attitude.
- Great teammate.
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English.