Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

The Materials Requirements Planner will 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.

Key responsibilities:

• 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 responsive to changes in material requirements


• Creation and maintenance of detailed material planning parameters in Planning systems


• Liaison with procurement to agree conversion of the material requirements plan 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


• 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



• Manage all inventory for assigned materials and lead the identification of dispositioned  and ensure it is carried out for assign team members. 

Key requirements:

• Bachelors : Required


• Ability to influence both Supply Chain and functional leaders to support inventory management/ strategy recommendations


• Good communication and presentation skills. Ability to present ideas in a clear and concise manner


• Strong analytical skills with the ability to define metrics (KPI’s) and identify issues through root cause analysis


• Competent using MS Office suite, with intermediate usage of Excel.  Should be extremely comfortable with Vlookups and Pivot tables. 


• Ability to utilize Business Intelligence systems to extract data and generate reports


• Previous usage of SAP desired


• Ability to utilize Business Intelligence systems to extract data and generate reports

Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.

Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.