Senior Planner Aesthetic Medical Device; Bothell, WA

Senior Planner – Aesthetic Medical Device (Bothell, WA) –

Job Location:

Bothell, Washington, USA – Job Requisition

Join our global diversified pharmaceutical company enriching lives through our relentless drive to deliver better health outcomes to our patients. We are all in it together to make a difference. Be a part of a culture that doesn't just wait for change but actively creates it—where your skills and values drive our collective progress and impact.

The Senior Planner is responsible for executing the operations plan and schedule for the factory and operations. They are critical to the planning, scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring of products through the complete production cycle to meet or exceed all global Customer Service level and Inventory goals. In addition, the Senior Planner is often involved in projects of a higher order dealing with site‑wide Operations concerns.

• Must be capable of performing all the normal duties of a Production Planner including planning, scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring products through the complete production cycle to meet actual and forecasted customer demands and maintain safety stocks.
• Ability to work cross functionally among different departments.
• Ability to identify and execute process improvements within their job.
• Proactively anticipates supply risks, initiates actions to prevent backorders, and communicates supply availability information to Production, Global Planners and management .
• Participates in, or leads, cross‑functional efforts to improve system performance and process effectiveness.
• Resolves work order variances and determines/tracks root causes.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate information of production schedules, customer orders, Bills of Materials for manufactured and outside processed assemblies; cross‑functionally coordinates BoM changes to minimize scrap and disruption to Manufacturing while maintaining Service Level goals.
• Prepares and maintains Planning, Routing, Back flushing, Receiving, etc. parameters in the ERP/MRP system and other necessary reports on production output, efficiency output, capacity and other reports as directed.
• Attend daily and weekly production meetings.
• Review existing planning tools and suggest improvements or development of new tools as needed.
• Participates in Supply Chain Process Development and Implementation.
• Works with Cost Accounting for period end close.

Experience, Education, Training, Traits:

• Requires a minimum of an Associate Degree, preferably in a technical field or Business Administration, or equivalent work‑related experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP system is preferred.
• Advance MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint. MS Access and Power BI skills a plus).
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• A minimum of 5+ years in Planning or Operations within a manufacturing job‑shop environment, preferably in the manufacture of instrumentation and/or medical devices, including:
  • Knowledge and experience using Product Life Management applications, such as Agile.
  • Knowledge and experience in ERP systems and planning tools.
  • Knowledge and experience in maintaining Master Data (i.e. Item Masters, Bills of Material, Routers and component specifications).
  • Understanding of Inventory management principles and tools.
  • Excellent computer data entry skills in an ERP/MRP environment.
• Experience working within a rigorous quality system environment (i.e., ISO 13485, FDA cGMP/QSR) preferred.
• Exhibits a proactive approach to job performance.
• Exhibits excellent problem‑solving skills.
• Strong collaboration, team building, and development skills.
• Excellent organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Prior experience with an ERP/MRP installation or conversion a plus.
• APICS certification a plus.

Leadership

• Previous Lead or Supervisory experience a plus.
• Career motivated toward a leadership position.

Language and Verbal Skills

Ability to read and interpret engineering specifications, general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondences documents. Ability to effectively present information and respond to…