Materials & Distribution Planner

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Cytiva, one of Danaher’s operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.

The Materials & Distribution Planner collaborates with the cross-functional team for the smoothest demand and supply planning, a high quality, and a timely availability for the customers.

This position reports to the Materials manager, and will be an on-site role (in Grens, Vaud).

What you will do:

• Primary focus on Materials or Finished goods Procurement, Planning and Distribution: create, maintain and monitor call-offs and/or purchase orders until reception and discrepancies management/resolution, support capacity planning, master scheduling and distribution planning.
• Cross-functional collaboration for the smoothest demand and supply planning, a high quality, and a timely availability for the customers.
• Inventory management, define a Plan for Every Part for the portfolio, manage obsolescence/aging, scrap.
• Implement and maintain tools and dashboards for metrics, support continuous improvement with internal and external service providers, deliver and exceed the targeted key performance indicators (OTD, ITO),
• Support processes and Work Instructions standardization.
• QMS activities (deviations investigation, CAPA’s, Change Controls, DCC’s).
• Support NPI’s (New Product Introduction), TOW (Transfer of Work) and Lean projects.

Who you are:

• Bachelor\’s degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED). Master’s Degree preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of proven experience in Supply Chain, preferably in Manufacturing planning, Materials planning and Execution, Inventory management, or Logistics and Distribution.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, proven ability to interact and coordinate with cross-functional and multi-cultural teams.
• Project management experience, continuous improvement mindset, ability to develop “hands-on” operational plans and strategies.
• ERP good knowledge, preferably Oracle (EBS and ASCP)
• APICS Certification preferred.
• Fluent in French and English.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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