Operations Planning Specialist

We are looking to hire a confident Operations Planning Specialist to join our amazing team at Hovione in Loures.

Growing your career as a Full Time Operations Planning Specialist is an incredible opportunity to develop competitive skills.

If you are strong in project management, persuasion and have the right experience for the job, then apply for the position of Operations Planning Specialist at Hovione today

Hovione is an independent family owned international group of companies. From the beginning, we have set ourselves above and apart through our innovative technological and productive capabilities, reaching a top spot in the world market as an integrated Contract Development and Manufacturing Company dedicated to helping Pharmaceutical Customers bring new and off-patent drugs to market.

Our people are the main asset for our continued success. Reaching over 1950 team members, from 36 different nationalities, that are located across Asia, Europe and North America (Portugal, US, Macao, Ireland, China, Hong Kong, Japan, India, and Switzerland), including 4 production sites.

Working at Hovione means reaching for innovation and excellence in everything we do: for our clients, our partners and, above all, our patients. That is why we are In it for life.

• Promote one single source of truth, data highly reliable and up to date, best in class tools and practices to enhance productivity and the ability to manage costs.
• Facilitate cross-functional Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP, mid-term horizon) and Execution (short-term horizon) processes to create tensions and deliver best compromises in terms of supply response to demand forecast.
• Establish plans with appropriate granularity and firmness depending on horizons, providing supply scenarios to demand, considering production and support areas capability and the best efficiency of resources' usage.
• Create shift detailed schedule (30) / weekly plan (H90 & H700) for the whole portfolio to answer demand, having into account production and support areas constraints.
• Review and analyze the allocated resources to comply with plan.
• Anticipate and monitor potential scheduling/planning and data management challenges, taking actions to mitigate risks.
• Optimize the plan, ensuring the existence of resources for the continuous production and maximizing efficiency.
• Work in collaboration with Operational Excellence to drive consistency of recipes activities sequencing, standards/load factors definition and update.
• Monitor performance and apply action plans to improve results of KPIs related to Planning/Scheduling process.
• Create periodic reports detailing the status of critical activities of ongoing projects and KPIs.
• Ensure all assigned tasks are properly planned and delivered on time, safely, efficiently, reliably and in a cost-effective manner.
• Propose improvements to the area as appropriate and solve problems.
• Make quality and timely decisions within the operations planning and data management tasks.
• Gather relevant data to inform the decision makers regarding complex issues.
• Collaborate in the investigation of events and propose corrective actions/preventive actions for deviations.
• Carry out assigned tasks and duties in a safe manner, in accordance with instructions, and to comply with environmental, health & safety rules/procedures.
• Execute professional activities in compliance with GMP and HSE guidelines, internal and external requirements.

• University, or equivalent, Business or scientific field (mandatory).
• Typically requires 3-5 years of relevant experience in operations planning in the GMP environment.
• Experience within Hovione in production or process development (desired) or industry (preferably in production).
• Strong understanding and knowledge of operations planning in manufacturing.
• Ability to work within SAP management system, namely “Production Planning”.
• Knowledge of planning tools (Microsoft Project, SchedulePro).
• Knowledge of cGMP in terms of API, Intermediate Drug Product (IDP) and Drug Product manufacturing (desired).
• Must have the Knowledge, Experience and Skills to conduct their tasks in accordance with the rules and procedures.
• Fluency in English is a requirement.
• Computer literate with good working knowledge of the MS Office package.

Hovione is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer

Inclusion and diversity are key to us. At Hovione, that means a work environment where differences are valued, and everyone is treated with fairness and respect. We want all our team members worldwide to feel supported, respected, and have the opportunity to achieve their full potential, regardless of their age, gender, religion, disability, sexual orientation or ethnicity.

• Company offers great benefits.
• Opportunities to grow.
• Competitive salary.