Buyer / Material Planner

Join us as a Buyer / Material Planner within our Cell Therapy site at the new Rockville, MD location. You’ll play a pivotal role in channeling our scientific capabilities to positively impact changing patients’ lives. This is your chance to learn more working at the cutting edge and embrace constant challenges that stimulate intellectual growth!

What you will do:

• Responsible for commercial and clinical-scale raw materials planning.
• Create purchase requisitions and purchase orders using MRP while handling inventory to target valuation and turns.
• Work proactively with Procurement and external suppliers in placing purchase orders.
• Represent the supply chain in open purchase order meetings
• Follow up on delivery status, evaluate the impact on the site’s master production schedule, and work on prioritization.
• Expedite, cancel, or delay orders as needed.
• Liaise with Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Logistics and Finance.
  
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in business administration or related materials management field, or a science or technical undergraduate degree preferred but not required.
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in planning, preferably in a technical/scientific arena.
• Strong knowledge of planning, organization, and time management skills.
• Strong knowledge of SAP, e-Procurement Systems, Internet Explorer, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, and Outlook.
• Project Leadership Experience on cross-functional teams.
• Must have strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Must be detail-oriented and effectively handle change while providing flexibility and making timely and quality decisions.
• Energetic and self-motivated team player/builder.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a similar role within the pharmaceutical industry would be helpful.
  
  
  

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace, and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca?

With constant new products and launches, there's never been a better time to join Supply Chain at AstraZeneca and shape our future with a big contribution to life-changing medicines. We are driven by innovation and evolution. We are active players in growth and evolution with a clear long-term strategy. As a global business in stable growth, there are long-term opportunities and multiple pathways to take. We do it with a real sense of team spirit, pushing and encouraging each other to achieve our best.

Ready to make a big impact? Apply now!