Introduction
Join our Operations team as a Production Planner Expert and play a key role in ensuring the efficient planning and execution of production activities. Through effective production and capacity planning, material coordination, and operational performance monitoring, you will help enable reliable product availability and support the successful introduction of new products into operations. Based in Bangalore, India, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure products reach the marketplace on time while supporting our mission of delivering better health for more people.
Grow with us – Your Responsibilities
- Maintain Bills of Materials and production structures in collaboration with Engineering and Design teams
- Create and manage production schedules that support agreed forecasts and customer delivery commitments
- Ensure production lead times remain realistic by aligning plans with material availability and manufacturing capabilities
- Identify, escalate, and expedite material shortages while proactively addressing potential supply constraints
- Control the sequence and priority of materials and services supplied to production cells across a diverse product portfolio
- Partner with Sourcing to resolve existing and anticipated material supply issues, including storage capacity planning, while ensuring procurement delays do not affect manufacturing timelines
- Support business functions through problem solving, stakeholder collaboration, and proactive communication with internal customers
- Facilitate the introduction of new products from project BETA phase through full integration into operations
- Create, analyze, and publish monthly team metrics, weekly capacity reports, and daily production order release and material issue reports
- Attend daily review meetings to understand operational concerns and line stoppage issues and support resolution activities
- Monitor and report key operational performance indicators, including Delivery Reliability, Inventory, and Planned versus Actual performance
- Support S&OP and Demand Planning activities to ensure alignment between demand and operational capacity
- Maintain accurate master data within SAP to support planning and operational excellence
What will convince us
- Academic degree in a business-related discipline
- Minimum 10 years of experience working in a technical environment within a production company
- Experience working with ERP systems
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes and production operations
- Experience in materials management and production scheduling within a production environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and experience with database usage and management
- Effective problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills
- Strong stakeholder collaboration capabilities and a customer-focused mindset
- Self-motivated approach with the ability to work independently and drive results
- Fluent English communication skills
About Sartorius
Sartorius is part of the solution in the fight against cancer, dementia, and many other diseases. Our technologies help translate scientific discoveries into real-world medicine faster, so that new therapeutics can reach patients worldwide.
We look for ambitious team players and creative minds, who want to contribute to this goal and advance their careers in a dynamic global environment.
Join our global team and become part of the solution. We are looking forward to receiving your application.
www.sartorius.com/careers