Senior Analyst, Planning Intelligence & Enablement

This is a hands-on, high-impact position within an intricate, fast-paced cell therapy supply chain. You will partner with planning, procurement, manufacturing, finance, quality, master data, and digital teams to ensure trusted planning outputs today-and to design the data structures, decision logic, and guardrails that enable AI-orchestrated, human-governed planning in the near future. Can you see yourself turning data, parameters, and process subject area into stable, actionable plans that scale with innovation?

Accountabilities:

• SAP Planning Governance: Ensure SAP data, planning parameters, and transaction execution consistently produce reliable material requirements and supply signals.
• Planning Signal Health Monitoring: Track and strengthen signal quality across demand, supply, inventory, and procurement so planning outputs remain stable, accurate, and actionable.
• Data Integrity and Issue Resolution: Identify, investigate, and resolve data and transaction issues that distort material planning or downstream execution.
• Metrics and Audit Routines: Build dashboards, KPIs, and audit checks to measure planning signal strength, data quality, transaction compliance, and overall supply chain health.
• Decision-Ready Analysis: Deliver clear, concise insights for S&OE, S&OP, and Tier forums, surfacing risks, weak signals, data issues, trends, and improvement opportunities.
• Decision-Centric Process Mapping: Document decisions, inputs, and logic embedded in current planning workflows to create the blueprint for future AI-enabled planning.
• Data Governance and AI Readiness: Support master and transactional data governance for operational execution and planning performance; define standards for data quality, structure, completeness, and context that enable high-confidence, autonomous planning over time.
• Expert Planning Tools Enablement: Serve as an authority translating planning logic, SAP transactions, and master data settings into decision rules that future AI agents must replicate or improve.
• Exception Management Frameworks: Establish criteria for when AI-generated plans require human review, issue, or override, with special focus on GxP-critical materials and patient-specific supply chains.
• AI-Assisted Workflow Pilots: Test AI recommendations against current planning outputs, measure accuracy, identify gaps, and debrief to improve AI agent performance.
• Convert institutional planning know-how into organized, portable formats. These include decision trees, logic maps, and exception catalogues. They can be embedded into AI systems and safeguarded as automation scales.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Strong proficiency in SAP and understanding of supply chain transactions, core data, and planning-relevant data structures
• Proficient knowledge in Microsoft Excel, including data analysis, reconciliation, and visualization
• Experience analyzing data integrity, transaction accuracy, and process compliance within supply chain systems
• Good understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes, including material planning, purchasing, inventory management, and production execution
• Ability to perform root cause analysis and translate findings into practical business actions
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills to work across planning, procurement, manufacturing, finance, and master data teams
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the skill to communicate complex findings clearly to collaborators
• Understanding of business implications of system and process issues on supply continuity, inventory, and operational performance
• Knowledge of cGMP manufacturing and regulatory/compliance requirements for cell therapy and the pharmaceutical industry
• 6+ years with BS/BA in related field, or 4+ years with MS/MA or MBA in related field

Desirable Skills/Exp experience:

• Experience with SAP transaction auditing, controls, or data governance
• Highly knowledgeable with Power BI, Tableau, Power Query, Power Pivot, or similar analytics tools
• Expert experience with planning systems such as OMP
• ERP implementation, enhancement, or scaling experience
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or operations related to cell therapy product logistics
• Knowledge of Python or VBA for automation and analysis
• Professional certifications such as CPIM or ASCM/APICS
• Curiosity and interest in understanding how AI/ML models consume and interpret planning data
• Eagerness to learn and collaborate with AI tools, digital agents, and automation platforms
• Ability to articulate planning logic and decision rules in structured, transferable formats
• Comfort with ambiguity and evolving role scope as AI capabilities mature

Why AstraZeneca:

Here, supply chain is where science meets execution to reach patients at speed. You will join a diverse, agile team that applies current technology and disciplined, Lean ways of working to intricate, real-world challenges. Expect to sit alongside manufacturing, quality, finance, and digital specialists-unexpected teams in the same room-turning data into decisive action. We value kindness alongside ambition, and we back ambitious thinking with the tools and support needed to make it real. With a pipeline of new therapies and an environment that prizes continuous improvement, your work will directly shape how life-changing medicines move from our sites to those who need them most.

Step into this role to strengthen today's planning signals and help architect AI-enabled decisions that keep critical therapies flowing-make your impact now!

Date Posted

26-Jun-2026

Closing Date

02-Jul-2026

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