About this role
Work Your Magic with us!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
This role may also be based at our headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany.
Your role
Join a Center of Excellence responsible for production planning and detailed scheduling within our Healthcare manufacturing sites network.In this role, you will deliver values to the healthcare sector, by strengthening our planning solution and processes, raise the knowledge base of our planning community and enable robust data-driven decisions.As process and solution expert, you will translate business strategic goals into robust production planning processes leveraging your supply chain planning expertise, process design and analytics skills, as well as SAP APO PP/DS capabilities. Strong problem solver, able to navigate across multiple sites and using cross functional knowledge with excellent collaborative skills, you will drive continuous improvement initiatives within and beyond production planning topics.
This is a global role for a pragmatic person who can move confidently between strategic direction, detailed process design and hands-on problem solving with planners and IT stakeholders.If you are motivated by improving planning quality at global scale and enjoy working at the intersection of business process, technology, analytics, and people development, we would like to hear from you.
Who you are
- Several years of experience in supply chain planning, production planning and scheduling, or a closely related field, ideally gained in pharmaceutical, life sciences, chemicals, or another highly regulated and complex manufacturing environment.
- Strong hands-on experience with SAP APO PP/DS or SAP E-PPDS, including planning and scheduling processes, solution capabilities, functional troubleshooting, and relevant SAP S/4HANA and master-data dependencies.
- Proven experience designing, improving, or deploying planning processes across multiple manufacturing sites, preferably in a global program, Center of Excellence, template organization, or matrix structure.
- Strong understanding of production planning and detailed scheduling principles, including the ability to model operationally meaningful and technically robust manufacturing constraints.
- Experience working with supply chain data, analytics, dashboards, and performance indicators to identify root causes and drive measurable process improvement.
- Ability to understand stakeholder needs, evaluate functional designs, challenge assumptions, and explain technical implications in clear, actionable language to non-technical audiences.
- Structured, pragmatic, and systemic problem solver who can combine strategic thinking with effective operational execution, manage multiple priorities, and influence without relying on formal authority.
- Confident facilitator and collaborative communicator who works effectively across planning, production, procurement, quality, warehousing, IT, and other interfaces in an international, multicultural, and virtual environment; fluent in English, with additional languages an advantage.
What we offer
We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!