Procurement Supply Chain Planner

Uniphar – Who we are

With a workforce of more than 3000 employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA, and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and MedTech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world. Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our highly expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech and Uniphar Pharma.

Supply Chain & Retail

Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare and animal health products to pharmacies and hospital nationwide. The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives. In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacy to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar-owned pharmacies under the Life, Allcare, McCauleys and Hickeys symbol brands.

Pharma – On Demand

The On-Demand business is a specialist medical supply business that sources and distributes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and consumable supplies to healthcare professionals in over 160 countries worldwide. We have offices in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and New Zealand. The company’s main divisions encompass everything from International Sales through Sales to NGO’s and Charities, Clinical Trials Supply, Imported (Unlicensed Medicines), Sexual Health Supplies, and the storage and distribution of medical products and devices for third parties.

Click here to find out more: About Us - Who we are | Uniphar

Culture at Uniphar

Uniphar is a combination of many businesses each with its own identity, culture, values, and ways of working. Our overarching culture narrative is inclusive of each of these stores. Uniphar lives and breathes four key pillars which unpin and support our culture.

We have a people first approach - we do the right thing. We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience is embodied in our way of working. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This diversity fuels our business and culture.

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the core of what we do and is deeply embedded in our business strategy. We want to contribute positively to the people and the world around us. Running our business in a sustainable way ensures that Uniphar will continue to prosper in the long-term. We are focused on ensuring that each of the five pillars of our sustainability strategy are a fundamental part of our decision-making process.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Manage and develop a dynamic product portfolio to ensure maximum product availability and customer service level.
• Manage supply in line with demand forecast & company budgets using the company business planning system.
• Analyse sales trends to drive the demand plan. Report daily & weekly on key KPI’s.
• Communicate & plan with suppliers to manage stock availability, supplier order fulfilment lead times, safety stock and mitigate out of stocks.
• Work with the operational team and wider procurement team to manage demand/supply peaks driven by seasonal activity.
• Accountable for maintaining demand planning processes and systems to improve forecasting accuracy.
• Review order suggestion in the system and process orders accordingly.
• Work with commercial and sales teams to fulfil promotional plans & seasonal buying.
• Assist in risk assessment and mitigation activities. Management of slow and dead stock strategy.
• Proactively developing alternative solutions to minimize any stock outages as a result of internal or external issues.
• Balance of inventory levels in line with business requirements for continued supply, with a view towards optimum stock holding and reduced costs.
• Strong relationship building with suppliers in order to achieve maximum SLA’s.
• Cross functional collaboration to drive business performance.

QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS REQUIRED

• Strong Information technology, numerical and analytical skills.
• SAP experience would be an advantage
• Previous experience in an FMCG procurement role (Pharmaceutical Industry experience an advantage)
• Strong forecasting skills
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, both written and oral
• Innovative and driven with a strong desire to learn.

How we’d like to work together

Due to the expected key outcomes associated with this role by its nature it will be a role based out of one of our offices across the UK or Ireland. There will be an element of hybrid working available, but this role will also involve travel to our global sites. It is important to note that we do not expect this job to be a ‘9 to 5’ type position. In return for your flexibility, you will be joining an environment that understands how inter-twined work and life have become - and both the benefits and challenges that brings - and therefore offers a flexible, progressive way of supporting it.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Bike to work scheme
• Company events
• Company pension
• On-site parking
• Store discount
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person