Senior Production Planner

Quanterix is a company on a mission to change the way in which healthcare is provided by giving researchers the ability to closely examine the continuum from health to disease. In our focused therapeutic areas, our revolutionary technology, Simoa®, is helping researchers advance the science of precision health. Simoa® is changing the way in which the biology of health and disease is studied by giving researchers the ability to closely examine critical biomarkers in most therapeutic areas including neurology, infectious disease, oncology, inflammation, and cardiology. To continue our extraordinary growth, we are hiring a Senior Production Planner located in Billerica, MA. 

We are looking for a technically savvy, experienced and motivated candidate to join our Supply Chain team. This individual will be responsible for a variety of activities including ensuring on-time, in full delivery of products to customers and maintaining good internal communication to Manufacturing, Customer Service, and Strategic Marketing/Sales for production plan and safety stock strategy alignment. The incumbent will be responsible for driving a feasible Master Production Schedule in our ERP system (SyteLine); planning and coordinating activities among teams to ensure customers’ delivery satisfaction and maximizing consumables revenue.

What You’ll Do:

• Responsible for providing interface with customer service to ensure customer order verification within 24 hours after the order is released
• Responsible for achieving and maintaining specified MTS/MTO Back Order objectives, driving optimal order fulfillment levels
• Responsible for reagent production plan to ensure original customer order commitments and safety stock levels are achieved
• Responsible for balancing duties to ensure customer on-time deliveries and inventory optimization, work with factory manufacturing scheduler to ensure MPS is met while maintaining efficient factory loading and scheduling
• Understand and highlight capacity constraints and work collaboratively with manufacturing teams on resolution.
• Responsible for creating all job orders in ERP system to support the plan and verifying critical/long lead items are available.
• Lead planning and issuing of workorders for warehouse kits, responsible for associated OTIF and backorder.
• Maintain forecast module in ERP system to ensure all customer demands are covered
• Work with BU’s on the strategic safety stock strategy and conduct regular review process; maintain strategic inventory safety stock target in ERP system for supply chain to execute
• Analyze customer forecast, orders, APS, and inventory for S&OP meetings
• Understand overall Supply Chain constraints and coordinate activities to ensure all resources are exercised and escalated for solution if any supply gaps exist
• Contribute to inventory management process by supporting the cycle count program, and reviewing excess and obsolete, and expiring material to minimize scrap.

What We’ll Expect From You:

• BA/BS degree in Supply Chain Management or related field of study
• 3-5 years prior experience in materials management, or materials and production planning, preferably in the life sciences industry.
• cGMP Experience preferred
• ERP/MRP experience required with Syteline experience preferred
• Excellent organizational, record keeping and communication skill
• Demonstrated ability to work well within cross-functional teams as a team player
• Possess an ability to learn and master complicated concepts quickly and comfortably
• Ability to generate high quality data under tight deadlines, and a collaborative, proactive attitude
• Strong attention to detail
• Advanced computer and database skill, to include MS Excel & PowerPoint; daily user of Excel advanced tools
• Travel <5%

Why You’ll Like Working For Us:

Our Technology: Quanterix’ technology is designed to enable much earlier disease detection, better prognoses and enhanced treatment methods to improve the quality of life and longevity of the population for generations to come. The technology is currently being used for research applications in several therapeutic areas. The company was established in 2007 and is in Billerica, Massachusetts. For additional Information, please visit https://www.quanterix.com.

Our Commitment To Employees: We have a free, state-of-the-art onsite fitness center for all employees. To keep you fueled up, we provide onsite employees free bagels every Monday morning, and free snacks and drinks every day! Quanterix hosts Virtual Bingo nights with all employees when we can see families, pets, and win amazing prizes. Unwind on Tuesdays and Thursdays with a virtual yoga session. In addition to competitive compensation and a 401k plan with an employer match, we offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents. We offer a Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Life, Disability, and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurances, and Mental Health Care, we offer generous Maternity & Paternity leave, Family Medical Leave, Fertility Assistance, Dependent Care, Military Leave and Vacation Carryover. All employees are awarded Equity, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, a Performance Bonus, and 1:1 Financial Counseling/Planning. We also offer Tuition Assistance.

Our Culture: Quanterix is committed to a Diverse and Inclusive workplace. We have a Diversity Program with Executive Sponsorship. Our core values are Accountability, Teamwork, Trust, and Transparency OR ATT². Meet some of our team HERE. Quanterix is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Quanterix will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

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