Supply Chain Coordinator

Who are Advanced Medical Solutions?AMS is a world-leading independent developer and manufacturer of innovative tissue-healing technology, focused on quality outcomes for patients and value for payers. AMS has a wide range of surgical products including tissue adhesives, sutures, haemostats, internal fixation devices and internal sealants, which it markets under its brands LiquiBand®, RESORBA®, LiquiBandFix8®, LIQUIFIX™ and Seal-G®. AMS also supplies wound care dressings such as silver alginates, alginates and foams through its ActivHeal® brand as well as under white label. Since 2019, the Group has made five acquisitions: Sealantis, an Israeli developer of innovative internal sealants; Biomatlante, a French developer and manufacturer of surgical biomaterials, Raleigh, a leading UK coater and converter of woundcare and bio-diagnostics materials, AFS Medical, an Austrian specialist surgical business and Connexicon, an Irish tissue adhesives specialist.AMS\’s products, manufactured in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Israel, are sold globally via a network of multinational or regional partners and distributors, as well as via AMS\’s own direct sales forces in the UK, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Russia. The Group has R&D innovation hubs in the UK, Ireland, Germany, France and Israel. Established in 1991, the Group has more than 800 employees. For more information, please seewww.admedsol.comAMS provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants. We highly value and encourage diversity across our workforce meaning that no one will be discriminated against because of their gender, race, age, nationality, disability, or any other protected characteristic as prohibited by law.We\’re currently recruiting for a Supply Chain Coordinator on a permanent.This role supports our manufacturing site in Plymouth, reporting to the Supply chain manager. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to gain exposure of working in surgical manufacturing supply chain, gaining experience of differing manufacturing processes and capacity planning. As part of a surgical manufacturing site you’ll support various departments, as well as assisting on site projects, specifically in 2024 the change controls and roll out for MDR. Including purchasing and import customs processing cover. On a day-to-day basis, you can expect to be producing production plans with complex resource capacity considerations, ensuring work in progress is available on time. We’re looking for someone with a willingness to learn, with good knowledge of capacity planning within the manufacturing industry. What will this role involve? Support the execution of the supply planning process, generating a supply plan demonstrating the capacity loading, considering all relevant inputs (demand, planning rules and constraints). Highlight capacity / material issues within the given timeframe. Generate production batches, scheduling production steps in line with the production plan. Generate work to lists and sub-contract schedules. Manage sub-contract sterilisation and packing to ensure on time delivery. Support the maintenance of master data critical to the planning, scheduling and purchasing system residing in whatever system used for planning purposes. Arrange imports through co-ordination with external forwarders and internal teams. Import requirements for making customs declarations in Ricardo CMS in relation to CFSP, CW and IP. Maintain records working with forwarders and FPO on a day-to-day basis. Monitor safety stocks and planning parameters for manufactured and purchased items. Produce detailed history of forecast and sales Data to form trend analysis. Provide cover for Supply Chain Manager absent or working off-site. Any additional requirements within Supply Chain Department. What we\’re looking for? Proven work Experience in supply chain, manufacturing or a planning / stock controller position Understanding and proficiency in the use of ERP systems (preferably Oracle) IT literate in all MS-Office suite Team player with a pragmatic approach and proactive, result-oriented, structured, solution-oriented and accurate way of working. Good Communication Skills (verbal & written) in English Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise important projects Balanced personality with a positive “can do” attitude