Senior Planner

We are a specialty vaccine company that develops, manufactures, and commercializes prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases addressing unmet medical needs.

We have leveraged our expertise and capabilities both to commercialize three vaccines, including the world’s first and only chikungunya vaccine, and to rapidly advance a broad range of vaccine candidates into and through the clinic, including candidates against Lyme disease and Zika.

With operations in Austria, Canada, France, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the U.S., we are committed to making a positive impact on global public health.

Together, we are a global Company which is open to people of all backgrounds. Our diverse and inclusive workforce makes Valneva a great place to work.

Our Planning & Logistics Team are looking to add a Senior Planner into their team.

The core duties and responsibilities of a Senior Planner is to provide technical support to the planning team on complex cases, the planning group will incorporate Manufacturing Planning, Engineering Planning, QC Planning, QA Planning & Logistics Planning according to demand and quality standards.

• Produce capacity plan detail to enable forward planning of manufacturing areas
• Coordinating workflow for multiple products
• Planning and prioritising to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
• Determining testing services, manpower, equipment, services and raw materials needed to cover production demand to meet MPS
• Feed changes to plan into Master Production Schedule / Supply plan & MPS
• Plan activities with service providers aligning to planned shutdowns or services
• Be key liaison with external labs to plan and forecast samples coming from manufacturing
• Take the lead at the weekly planning meeting (for your respective planning area)
• Monitor jobs/testing/tasks/trackers to ensure activities will finish on time and within budget (analyse data on material consumption, monthly reporting BOM v Actual, lead-times, number of finished tests / products, on time delivery, percentage of defectives, OTIF etc)
• Address issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption
• Obtain output information (number of finished tests/products, on time delivery, percentage of defectives etc)
• Prepare and submit status and performance KPI reports
• Support and drive effective communications and execution of tasks through daily group planning meeting
• Create ‘what if’ scenarios based upon operational requirements, maintain capacity analysis tools and use these tools to support our resource, materials, equipment, activities and document effectively
• Maintain planning tools to provide visibility of tasks and progression reporting back to planning group and maintain effective site wide communication
• Co-ordinate external service providers expectations on planning activities for shutdowns and servicing
• Take the lead on managing and controlling usage on materials feeding back into the planning and supply chain function setting and controlling min/ max based on usage
• Raise requisitions for services and obtain appropriate signatory for external activities
• Effective management of deviations, CAPA and change controls
• Provide support to the department and contribute to an environment of energy, enthusiasm, empowerment, continuous improvement and motivation
• Provide site wide visibility of plan providing visibility of up-and-coming activities for the weeks and months ahead
• Monitor capacity and utilisation through weekly planning meeting
• To undertake any other duties as requested by the line manager in accordance with company requirements
• Ensure daily planning team and weekly planning meetings keep momentum, stay positive and productive and ensure open actions are followed through to completion
• Be pro-active by looking for improvement opportunities, guide and encourage planners to have good work ethic, taking pride in their work to ensure the planning team maintain professionalism with clear communication and become a successful planning team for Valneva

• Stock Options
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Gym membership OR fitness allowance
• LinkedIn Learning
• Many others included