Packaging Planner

**About the role**:
The Packaging planner is responsible to create a weekly packaging plan in balancing market needs and production efficiency. This requires intense alignment with supply chain analysts and the local packaging team in consideration of oranizational changes. Furthermore, it is a responsibility of a specific product group for both the work order reservation and packaging planning.

**Responsibilities**:

- **Reservation of packaging work orders**
- Choosing of specific lots of all components of a BOM according to present rules and restrictions
- Generation of a finished goods lot number according to given guidelines
- Consideration of retention samples due to given guidelines
- Responsible to set correct due date of a work order regarding given leadtimes
- Run BOM Report on a daily to ensure that the WO parts list is in compliance with the master BOM
- Pay special attention to live saving orders to be packed within 24 hours
- Work with RPA solution “Doryo” for automatization purpose and focus on continuous improvement especially regarding digitization
- ** Packaging planning**
- Creation of a weekly packaging plan with all needed alignments with different departements
- WO scheduling within PS planning tool in consideration of deadlines, urgencies, formats, defects, shutdowns and label changes
- Intense alignment to SC analysts and close collaboration with packaging department including its regular meetings inclusive Tier 1 meeting
- Creation of packaging utilization projection for the upcoming weeks and share the key messages in regular meetings to Finishing and Planning colleges
- Pay special attention to live saving orders to be packed within 24 hours
- Prepare Mansched-KPI to measure fulfillment of the weekly plan
- Support various improvement projects (e.g. planning wheel, discard reduction, leadtime improvement, new packaging planning tools)

**Required**:

- Finished education in technical or economical area
- 2 years professional experience in Production Planning or Logistics
- Bachelor of Business Administration or similar preferred
- Experience in pharma industry preferred

**Skills**:

- Commercial Business Understanding
- Exceptional Communication Skills
- Structured way of thinking and documenting
- Motivation and interest in terms of digitization and automation
- High level networking skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Minimum fluently English plus mother tongue
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent MS-Office skills (especially Excel)
- Jobholder must be willing to continuously improve organizational, technical and functional knowledge

**What Takeda can offer you**:
A competitive remuneration package with a minimum salary of €3.557,47 gross per month (full-time, collective wage agreement for the chemical industry) -** the actual salary depends on your professional experience and qualifications.**
- Family-friendly company environment; Support with parental leave, dad month, Bilingual company kindergarten
- Comprehensive training programs
- In-house job rotation program
- In-house Canteen with discounts or meal vouchers
- Works council (events, festivals, shopping vouchers, etc.)
- Employee Referral Program
- Employee Recognition Program
- Takeda Resource Groups
- Medical checkups
- Free vaccination program
- Fitness Center

**More about us**:
At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best-in-class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

**Empowering our people to shine**:
Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

**Locations**:
AUT - Wien - Benatzkygasse 2-6

**Worker Type**:
Employee

**Worker Sub-Type**:
Regular

**Time Type**:
Full time