Supply Chain & Inventory Manager EEM

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Position Description:

This Role will have two elements:

Supply Planning:

To ensure a Production Schedule is developed for assigned product(s) to meet customer requirements.

The role is required to understand the planning and replenishment processes and associated IT systems,

e.g.

SAP S/4HANA and SAP/IBP and PPDS but is not limited to those.

This role will be responsible for ensuring each Contract Manufacturer can meet the MPS and drive the resolution of any constraints which includes typically, operations, laboratories, Quality Control, warehouse and shipping.

Close working relationships are required across Supply chain, Quality, Technical Services and the Contract Manufacturers to manage complex supply chains.

Prepare and lead multifunctional Joint Process Teams to build and develop relationships.

Plan, order and reconcile CM Material.

Have a high level of ownership for Inventory Management focusing on setting inventory targets and minimizing write-offs.

Expected to manage and/or represent the JPT on key supply chain projects.

Inventory Management

To support the financial inventory over-seen within the EEM international organization. 

The position requires comprehensive business and supply chain knowledge to improve processes and identify inventory cost opportunities, to avoid write offs, to move slow movers to sales and managing net working capital.

The job owner needs to facilitate decisions on operational processes, projects and Supply Chain/Finance related activities; ensuring a proper CM inventory reconciliation, audits, supporting EEM supply chain and maintaining financial reporting/ monitoring is part of the job and must be performed  in compliance with applicable SOPs, SOX, and GxP related activities.

The job holder participates in establishing key communication paths between different functions and organizations for progress monitoring and escalating.

Functions, Duties, Tasks:

·         Anticipate and drive resolution of capacity constraints.

Ensure any major capacity issues are escalated appropriately.

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