Job title: Materials Planner

Location: Manchester Science Park (M15 6SH)

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary & Benefits: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

About Yourgene Health:

Yourgene Health is a leading integrated technologies and services business, enabling the delivery of genomic medicine. The group works in partnership with global leaders in DNA technology to advance diagnostic science.

Yourgene primarily develops, manufactures, and commercialises simple and accurate molecular diagnostic solutions, for reproductive health, precision medicine and infectious diseases. The Group's flagship in vitro diagnostic products include non -invasive prenatal tests (NIPT) for Down's Syndrome and other genetic disorders, Cystic Fibrosis screening tests, invasive rapid aneuploidy tests and DPYD genotyping.

Yourgene has a range of innovative DNA sample preparation platforms, powered by Ranger® Technology, the Yourgene LightBench® and Yourgene QS250, ideal for cell free DNA applications in NIPT and oncology including liquid biopsy.

Yourgene also has a global laboratory service network equipped to be a full life-cycle partner for clinical, research and pharmaceutical organisations to support partners at the preclinical, clinical, and post market stage to develop, manufacture, obtain regulatory approval and commercialise new products and services. In addition, Yourgene offers and NIPT and high throughput Covid testing service.

Yourgene Health is headquartered in Manchester, UK with facilities in Taipei, Singapore, the US and Canada.

Our Culture:

Yourgene is a growing, vibrant and exciting place to work, we are looking for committed driven individuals to be part of our next growth journey. Our culture is described by our employee's as collegiate, friendly, professional, innovative, open and fast paced. We have nay social and well-being initiatives run by our Social Huddle that keep our sense of community alive during challenging times that the pandemic has thrown our way. At Yourgene we focus on putting values led programmes in place to ensure that we can attract, retain and develop our people. We want our people to have a career with Yourgene and we ensure that they are recognised and rewarded for their achievements and commitment, everyone plays a critical role in our growth journey.

Description of role:

Yourgene Health, part of Novacyt Group are recruiting for a Materials Planner. Aim of the role is to support material availability requirements to meet sales demands and key business objectives. To ensure efficient, cost effective, sourcing and scheduling to aid reduction of downtime and wastes in production.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Aid in the optimisation of stock of key components, and finished goods, ensuring maintained within agreed levels.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, internal and external.
• Generate Purchase Orders to replenish stock
• Maintain ERP data base with key parameters in relation to production portfolio, supplier lead time , Order acknowledgements, reschedule dates
• Achieve best cost/quality and compliance at all times
• Ensure achievable delivery of materials to support production activities, by processing order confirmations, and expediting at regular intervals.
• Support to release and schedule of work orders to production.
• Monitor and update schedule dates on ERP system, identifying risks to scheduled plan
• As required, attend and participate in regular review meetings.
• Strict adherence to Quality and regulatory specifications, H&S Compliance
• Ad-hoc support tasks to support on supply chain activities to meet deadlines and priorities
• Support and promote best practice, continuous improvement opportunities.
• Co-ordinate and respond to stakeholders queries
• Assist on production schedule to meet sales demand

Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:

Competency

• Solid organisational and administration skills
• Business Acumen
• Ability to prioritise and achieve deadlines
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Analytical, with high attention to detail
• Effective time management

Qualifications, desirable but none essential

• Experience within purchasing/ planning within a manufacturing environment
• Familiarity with ERP/MRP database

Closing Date:

Sunday 29th September, 2024

Yourgene Health is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.