Senior Material Planner

Job Title: Senior Material Planner Location: Vacaville, CA, 95688 Duration: 6 Months Job Type: Temporary Assignment Work Type: Onsite Pay Rate: $ 25.00-30.00/ Hourly Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a leading biotechnology company that combines technological insight with world-class manufacturing, scientific expertise, and process excellence and helps their customers to deliver new and innovative medicines that help treat a wide range of diseases. Our client specializes in pharmaceutical ingredients, Bioscience, Biopharmaceuticals, Custom manufacturing, Biotechnology, Life science ingredients, Nutrition, Microbial Control, Agriculture, Materials Science, Personal Care, and cell and gene therapy. Job Description: Summary: Perform all duties to ensure the Materials Requirements Plans are completed to ensure the timely availability of materials to support the product Supply Plan Responsible to liaise with all key functions to ensure timely updates to material plans considering changes to plans or material availability issues Execution of key tasks to support inventory plans and optimization initiatives Job Duties: Perform all routine tasks to convert planned orders into material plans including the creation and management of material planned requirements Liaison with Supply Planner and Schedulers to ensure all material plans are up to date and resp Creation and maintenance of detailed material planning parameters in Planning systems Conversion of the material requirements plan (purchase requisitions) into Purchase Orders Expediting material availability through liaison with procurement and teams involved with inbound material processing Creation and management of material related KPIs and measures to ensure accurate understanding of material availability Execution of key material availability, mobilization or write actions to support optimal management of inventory while reducing scrap/waste Liase with key stakeholders (Supply Planner, Scheduler and PM) to develop safety stock and inventory plans to meet production plans Track, report and facilitate on-time material availability including testing and release for production Skills: Ability to support delivery of Supply Chain inventory management/ strategy Good communication and presentation skills. Ability to present ideas in a clear and concise manner Strong analytical skills with the ability to analyze and report metrics (KPI's) and identify issues through root cause analysis Competent using MS Office suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint Ability to utilise Business Intelligence systems to extract data and generate reports 3-5 Years Experience TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.