Job Description

The Principal Demand Planner is accountable for developing a high-quality, unconstrained consensus demand plan. The scope of this role is to manage processes and inputs which allow continual refinement of the demand forecast. This person will also be a contributor to our monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) processes.

In this role, you will be the trusted authority of the company’s demand signals across a rolling 24-month time horizon, ensuring plan alignment while eliminating bias across a broad spectrum of stakeholders and data inputs. This role is a key enabler to an effective S&OP process, which delivers customer satisfaction at an optimized cost.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

• Ensures the appropriate process structure, inputs, outputs, reviews, and cadence of demand planning globally to deliver company demand plans on a monthly cycle

• Achieves assigned KPI’s which may include forecast accuracy, forecast bias, and line fill performance.

• Capable of prioritizing work within the portfolio to maximize the impact of efforts with an end goal of reducing cost and/or improving customer satisfaction.

• Drives engagement and participation of consensus demand review and other S&OP meetings, including consolidation and distribution of presentation materials, key decisions, demand plan publish, meeting notes/action items

• Aligns product management and supply chain stakeholders to ensure successful new product introduction and phase-out of discontinued products

• Drives Financial partnership to ensure quality financial forecasts, including avg. selling price, mix and margin to ensure monthly financial realization

Travel:

• Domestic and international travel may be part of this role, not to exceed 10%

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences

• Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities, with direct, applied experience in supply chain

• Ability to build strong working relationships with commercial and marketing teams

• Understanding of end-to-end planning and supply chain management

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Work Environment:

• Prolonged sitting in front of a computer
• Mix of face to face and virtual meetings

Experience:

• 5 years+ of relevant supply chain management experience. Specific experience in demand planning or in business forecasting area required, ideally in the Medical Device, Biotechnology, or Pharma industries

• 2 years+ of experience leading team(s)

• Advanced planning tool experience and/or implementation (e.g. O9/ Kinaxis Rapid Response/ APO)

Education:

• Minimum: Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management or relevant field

• Preferred: Master’s degree in business or supply chain management

• Preferred: APICS or similar professional accreditation