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Date posted:  13 Nov 2026
City:  Arklow
Country/Region:  IE
Type of Contract:  Permanent
Job Requisition ID:  13338

Kinaxis Planning Model Owner & Supply Chain Analyst

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Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain, the Kinaxis Planning Model Owner & Supply Chain Analyst is the primary custodian of the site’s planning model integrity and data accuracy. The role is to transition the site from judgment-based decision-making to a robust, model-driven approach. You are responsible for ensuring that the Kinaxis environment serves as the “single source of truth” for capacity and supply scenarios, enabling the site to respond with agility to peaks, delays, and artwork portfolio changes. Approx. seventy per cent of the role goes to the model ownership and thirty per cent to scenario analysis.

Duties and Responsibilities

Operational:

Model Ownership & Governance (70%)

  • Act as the certified Kinaxis author for the site; design, build, and maintain worksheets, scenarios, alerts, and dashboards required for Supply Review and Long-Term Industrial Planning (under proper change control and developing a manual for the process).
  • Oversee the health of the SAP to Kinaxis integration, including weekly health reviews, scorecard management, and regression testing for all new Kinaxis releases.
  • Establish one capacity truth with our Senior OSD Planner: one set of rates, setup and changeover matrices, calendars and crews held in SAP and mirrored into PP/DS and Kinaxis, reconciled quarterly, so production and S&OP are aligned about the numbers.
  • Develop and maintain the 10-year aggregate model layer for the LTIP, ensuring seamless reconciliation with the 24-month detailed operational model.
  • Serve as the Kinaxis Key User; provide first-line support and lead the upskilling of planners and senior planners. Act as the primary point of contact for Global Supply Chain Excellence and implementation partners, taking authority in house from the partner.
  • Work with the capacity-data master data specialist who supports the role on rates, changeover matrices, calendars and crews.

 

Scenario Analysis and Strategic Support (30 %)

 

  • Build and execute standard supply scenario templates (e.g., surge capacity, weekend running, campaign optimization, API delays, artwork cut-over waves against line running) within every monthly S&OP cycle.
  • Deliver high-quality analysis and plain-language briefs for the Head of Supply Chain and Site General Manager within a 48-hour window, clearly stating assumptions and model results.
  • Produce the 10-year baseline for the LTIP every six months and support the Head of Supply Chain in evaluating options (shifts, campaign policy, line/suite investments).
  • Present complex capacity utilization and bottleneck data in a clear, actionable format for Senior Leadership.

 

Position Requirements

Essential:

  • Minimum of 5 years experience in supply or production planning in pharmaceutical or a similarly regulated, multi-line manufacturing environment.
  • Hands-on Kinaxis (RapidResponse or Maestro): Author Level 1 certified.
  • Working knowledge of SAP PP / PP-DS planning master data — recipes, routings, resources, calendars — and how it flows into an advanced planning system.
  • Capacity modelling fluency: rates, OEE, setup and changeover matrices, campaign rules, shift calendars and crews.
  • A data discipline: you can reconcile three systems, find the silent failure, and write the rule that stops it recurring. Advanced Excel; SQL or similar query skills.
  • Proven stakeholder management - demonstrated experience in turning a model result into a one-page brief document for key decision makers
  • Demonstrated experience of partnerships with software vendors in translating and upskilling onsite teams (Planners, IT, master data).

 

Desirable:

  • Kinaxis Author Level 2, Solution Consultant or Solution Architect certification; experience on a Kinaxis implementation or upgrade.
  • Kinaxis integration experience (data model, scheduled loads, monitoring) or SAP integration testing.
  • S&OP / IBP process experience; long-range (5–10-year) capacity planning; investment-case work with Finance.
  • APICS CPIM or CSCP; Lean Six Sigma; GMP change-control discipline.
  • Oral-solid-dose packaging knowledge, including artwork change and SKU cut-overs.

 

 

Whatever your area of expertise, your work within the Servier Group helps advance therapeutic progress for the benefit of patients. You will be part of teams recognized for their scientific excellence and reach your full potential in a professional environment that encourages you to develop yourself. Tailor-made onboarding journeys, mobility opportunities, quality trainings, responsible management, team spirit... All this and more in a workplace focused on your well-being.

 

At Servier, we are committed to therapeutic progress to serve patient needs. We put the diversity of our employees as a source of richness for the fulfillment of this vocation.

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