The posting
- Life Sciences - Supply Chain / Operations
- Contracting
- Vollzeit
- ASAP - 31.03.2027
- MRP, Purchase Order Management & Expediting, SAP MM
Hard Facts
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: 5 Months
- Workload: 100%, 41 hours per week
- Location: Visp, Switzerland
- Work Model: External contract
Your Responsibilities
- Perform all routine activities required to convert planned orders into material plans, including the creation and management of planned material requirements
- Liaise with Supply Planners and Schedulers to ensure that all material plans remain up to date and responsive to changes in material requirements
- Create and maintain detailed material-planning parameters within the relevant planning systems
- Convert material requirements plans and purchase requisitions into purchase orders
- Expedite material availability in close collaboration with Procurement and the teams responsible for inbound-material processing
- Create and manage material-related KPIs and metrics to ensure a reliable understanding of material availability
- Execute key material-availability, mobilization and write-off activities to support optimal inventory management while reducing scrap and waste
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop safety-stock and inventory plans aligned with production requirements
- Track, report and facilitate the timely availability of materials, including testing and release for production
- Identify and resolve material shortages to protect production schedules
- Support work-order execution, Bill of Materials management and New Product Introduction activities
- Monitor supplier performance, on-time delivery and contract compliance
- Support inventory-optimization and continuous-improvement initiatives in compliance with cGMP requirements
Your Experience and Skills
- Professional experience in material planning, production scheduling, purchasing or supply-chain operations
- Strong experience with Material Requirements Planning, commonly referred to as MRP
- Experience in purchase-order management, supplier expediting and shortage resolution
- Knowledge of inventory-management methods, including ABC analysis, Economic Order Quantity, reorder-point planning, safety stock and ageing-inventory analysis
- Experience working with Enterprise Resource Planning and inventory systems such as SAP MM, SAP WM, SAP IBP or JD Edwards
- Understanding of Bill of Materials management, work-order execution and New Product Introductions
- Experience collaborating with approved suppliers and monitoring supplier performance through scorecards and on-time-delivery metrics
- Knowledge of goods receipt, Goods Receipt Note and Advance Shipping Notice tracking
- Strong analytical skills and experience creating material-related KPIs and reports
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including VLOOKUP, PivotTables and Power Query
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau or SQL is an advantage
- Knowledge of Lean Six Sigma methodologies, DMAIC or Value Stream Mapping is an advantage
- Experience working in a cGMP-regulated environment
- Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills
- Structured, proactive and solution-oriented working style
- Professional command of English; additional languages are an advantage
Interested?
If you have hands-on material-planning experience and enjoy coordinating across supply planning, scheduling, procurement and production, we look forward to receiving your application.



