External Materials Planner

Summary

Join our team as an External Materials Planner and be a key player in ensuring seamless operations, cost efficiency, and optimal inventory levels, while actively contributing to the development and execution of best practices, all in a collaborative and supportive work environment. Apply now and make a meaningful impact on our production sites' success!

This position is temporary. It is a great opportunity for graduates to gain experience in supply chain.

About the Role

Location: Istanbul Kurtköy, Turkey #Hybrid

Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accesible for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure material availability in line with the approved site production plan.
• Follow up and ensure the accuracy of the material demand flow from sites to hub.
• Ensure daily Material requirements planning (MRP) oversight for all Bill of Material (BOM) material requirements, analysis of requirements and Purchase Orders overview.
• Preparation and creation of orders for incoming materials and their submission to the supplier; obtaining valid price quotes with escalation to Procurement if outside predefined tolerance/contractual limits; tracking and monitoring execution of the purchasing process with the supplier, carriers, forwarding agency and insurance companies.
• Reconciliation of the needs for incoming materials from Novartis Technical Operation sites to hub.
• Performing the operational procedure for incoming material complaints as well as complex purchasing and logistics processes.

Essential Requirements:

• University degree in Economics or other equivalent degree
• Work experience in supply chain preferred
• Ability to work in a fast-paced changing environment
• Team working and customer oriented mindset
• Excellent communication skills in English

Benefits and Rewards:

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Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse team's representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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Division
Operations

Business Unit
Innovative Medicines

Location
Turkey

Site
İstanbul Kurtköy

Company / Legal Entity
TR01 (FCRS = TR001) Novartis Sağlık, Gıda ve Tarım Ürünleri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş.

Functional Area
Technical Operations

Job Type
Full time

Employment Type
Temporary (Fixed Term)

Shift Work
No