Production Planning Manager

## Company Overview At FUJIFILM Biosciences, we turn curiosity into breakthroughs that advance the field of life sciences. By offering a comprehensive portfolio of products and services in cell culture media, discovery research reagents, recombinant growth factors and proteins, fine chemicals, and critical assay materials, we partner with the brightest minds in biotech and pharma to tackle the world’s biggest health challenges. Imagine being part of a team that enables life-changing discoveries like new vaccines, therapies, and advancements in regenerative medicine. Our culture fosters curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, and we pride ourselves on delivering unparalleled quality and service to our partners. If you’re ready to make an impact, your future belongs with us at FUJIFILM Biosciences. Our headquarters in Santa Ana, California, is surrounded by world-class schools, lush parks, and scenic beaches like Laguna and Huntington, making it an ideal place to live, work, and explore. With additional campuses across the US, Europe, China, and Japan, we offer opportunities to make a difference worldwide. Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers ## Overview **Position Description** We are hiring a Production Planning Manager. The Production Planning Manager will be responsible for managing the production schedule, manufacturing capacity planning, and periodic reporting of key metrics for multiple business Production Sites. ## External US **Responsibilities:** - Collaborate with S&OP / Master Supply Planner in detailed sales & marketing demand forecast and manufacturing output projections. (Planned vs Actual) - Collaborate cross functionally with Production, Procurement, Master Data, Warehouse, Product Line Managers and Quality Departments as needed to ensure customer demand needs are produced timely. - Track and analyze finished goods inventories for Off The Shelf (OTS) finished goods by categories and work to maintain optimum monthly inventory levels and minimize Back Orders - Partner with Demand Planner to capture special materials purchase requests and ensure proper charge back of materials plus tracking of reason codes in the event of customer cancellation or decides not to use the materials for any reason. - Provide and maintain detailed master production schedule (MPS) for all products for FUJIFILM Biosciences in CA. - Maintain data and communication for manufacturing dates with Sales software applications. - Lead weekly Supply, Demand, Inventory (SDI) review meeting to ensure production product process orders are created to align supply with demand. - Process monthly scrap reports for approval and coordinate the discard of all expired materials across multiple FUJIFILM Biosciences production sites. - Create and distribute the 12 week Master Production Schedule (MPS) to all business stakeholders on a weekly basis. - Develop and implement logistics and planning tools through MS Project, PowerBI, spreadsheet and relational databases for supply chain, procurement and operations teams. - Create and maintain planning and logistics metrics to enable process improvements. - Establish planning parameters, minimize variability, and align materials management, demand planning and sourcing to ensure minimum financial impact and uninterrupted manufacturing operations. - Support changes in BOM, demand, and supply, perform planning assessment as needed; support raw material inventory and supply control as required. - Coordinate activities required to support the manufacture, packaging, labeling, shipping, and distribution of R&D, marketing, and manufacturing products. - Provides training and development, job assignments, performance evaluations, and supervision for depart…