Demand Planner
5 months ago
**This is where you save and sustain lives**
At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.
Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.
Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.
Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.
**Your Role at Baxter**:
In this position, you will be responsible for all forecasting activities to create an accurate demand forecast with the outcome being a forecast which incorporates current and accurate market information, ensuring the company can correctly predict customer demand and provide the supply chain with the appropriate information to plan how to meet that customer demand. The Demand Planner is responsible for providing a collaborative demand signal that will drive manufacturing, distribution, and inventory.
You will be also responsible for leading, running and managing the Sales & Operations Planning process through close collaboration with cross-functional teams. They own and drive consensus and manage the Executive SIOP in their respective geography and is a key contributor to global SIOP process.
You will be crafting and maintaining forecast models continually refining and improving forecasts for respective categories, incorporating business intelligence, to anticipate customer demand and has responsibility for gathering and analyzing data for new product launches and forecast information gathered from multiple sources.
**What you'll be doing**:
- Own, lead and drive cross-functional monthly planning rhythm
- Facilitate monthly S&OP meetings with cross functional leaders (Commercial reviews with marketing teams and Senior Leadership Meeting); Set targeted, high impact agenda; Compile inputs from stakeholders across the business. Monthly review with Senior Leadership Team.
- Uncover, support and lead issue identification (supply constraints, available capacity) and initiate and lead cross-functional resolution - coach and support to ensure comprehensive, fact-based decisions
- Utilizing advanced analytics, lead significant and complex product portfolio
- Analyze historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare strategic forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results and recommend areas for improvement as well as potential risks
- Analyze and monitor trends in forecast error and work with the commercial team to reduce the error and lead cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
- Develop and lead demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.
- Update forecast with applicable supply constraints and ensure forecast accuracy and bias analysis. Measure, analyze and report key process. metrics and monitor adherence to key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Proactively collaborate and influence with marketing and sales and finance leaders at all levels on portfolio changes to ensure the forecast reflects new product launches as well as changes to existing products.
- Collaborate and drive a consensus approach by working with Commercial, Finance and Supply Chain partners at all levels of the organization to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts (Country/Cluster demand review meeting and prep).
- Responsible for providing volume input to the Supply Planning organization in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
- Recommend and implement enhancements to business processes and identify opportunities to improve operational efficiencies.
- Use the relevant planning software as the primary forecasting system tool and update forecast with applicable supply constraints.
- Deliver training and coaching, process improvements.
**What you'll bring**:
- Bachelor’s / Master’s degree required.
- Minimum of 3+ years’ experience in supply chain planning, including specific experience in demand planning, S&OP, identifying planning process improvements, training, and coaching team members/colleagues.
- Significant knowledge and proven ability to established strong relationships across different parts of the organization (in order to influence at the highest levels): commercial, sales, marketing, product development, finance and manufacturing related to the segment they are planning for, e.g., product lines, business unit, region
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