Senior Production Planner

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Abcam, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. 

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Progress happens together

At Abcam, we believe the scientific community goes further, faster when we go there together.  That’s why we work with life scientists to provide biological reagents and solutions that enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases and metabolic disorders. Our talented team of over 1,400 colleagues worldwide is our greatest asset. By applying our expertise and pushing boundaries, together we strive to better serve our customers, strengthen our impact across our industry, and ultimately our positive impact on society.

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The Senior Production Planner is responsible for developing and managing daily, weekly, and monthly production schedules to ensure optimal use of materials, labor, and equipment while meeting customer demand and inventory requirements. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholder to prioritize orders, resolve production constraints, monitor key performance indicators, and drive continuous process improvements to support on-time delivery and operational efficiency.

This position reports to the production and material planning manager and is part of the Inventory and production planning function located in Waltham MA, and will be an on-site role.  

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Develop and maintain efficient production schedules that balance customer demand with material availability, labor capacity, and equipment utilization to achieve service, inventory, and operational goals.
• Proactively manage and adjust production plans within Oracle to respond to changing business conditions, minimizing risk to customer commitments and overall business performance.
• Create, analyze, and communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure planning effectiveness, identify trends, and support data-driven decision-making.
• Lead root cause investigations for planning, supply, and production challenges, implementing sustainable corrective actions that improve performance and operational reliability.
• Drive and support cross-functional projects focused on process improvement, system optimization, capacity enhancement, and overall supply chain excellence.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Degree or masters in related discipline
• 5 years’ experience in production and material planning.
• Experience using supply chain planning aspects of ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle and making recommendations on changing planning attributes to improve supply.
• Excellent data analytical and presentation skills.
• Experience meeting tight deadlines, prioritizing tasks and multi-tasking to achieve results.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Experience using Oracle fusion ERP for planning.
• Utilized Power BI for creating reports and analyzing data.
• APICS - CPIM certification.

Abcam, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

The annual salary range for this role is $90,000 - $150,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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