Senior Production Planner

About the Company

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare is a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of medical devices, exporting to over 120 countries globally. We are an iconic New Zealand company with a consistent growth strategy ensuring an expanding range of innovative devices for use in respiratory care, acute care and the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Production Planner to join our Global Supply Planning Team. We are very proud of our success to date. This is due to a supportive and friendly culture that fosters innovation, achievement and focus from the team. We aim to provide best practice, cost efficient, supply planning solutions to satisfy our customers' needs. Our strategy is designed to ensure that the right product is available at the right place and time while minimizing costs and risks associated with the supply chain and overall business outcome.

In this critical planning role, you will be accountable for developing, presenting, and executing the Sales & Operations Planning process for a product family with the focus on new product introductions. You will coordinate the supply chain activities needed to meet global customer demand and ensure availability of inventory to ensure we achieve a high customer service level. We expect you to be motivated by improving processes, able to resolve conflicting priorities collaboratively, and be someone that wants to use your experience to stamp your footprint on our supply chain strategy and growth.

Working as part of a close-knit team it is expected that you will be highly self-motivated and able to juggle multiple priorities. On a daily basis you will be liaising with groups from across the business, including Production team leaders through to Sales and Marketing. The ability to understand your customer and having finely tuned communication and relationship building skills is absolutely critical.

Skills and Experience

• Five to seven years'+ experience planning role in a high-volume manufacturing environment is essential.
• A relevant tertiary qualification or CPIM is preferable.
• Not only do you have effective influencing skills, you possess tactical negotiation skills and are results orientated.
• You have the ability to use your initiative and solve problems.
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills is essential in this role.
• Experience using software such as SAP would be beneficial.

Company & Culture

At Fisher & Paykel Healthcare we have a passion for making things better, not only for our patients but for our employees.  Our success is due to a supportive and friendly culture that fosters innovation and an achievement driven and focused team. Therefore, it is key that our successful applicant has a real focus on continuous improvement.  

We believe in investing in our people, we have excellent internal and external learning and development opportunities. We offer career pathways to ensure you can grow with the business!

If this sounds like you, apply now and enjoy the challenge and reward of delivering solutions that satisfy our internal customers and deliver on overall business success. We look forward to hearing from you.