Sr. Demand Planner

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Sr. Demand Planner

A healthier future. It's what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That's what makes us Roche.

The Opportunity:

This role will be the key to ensuring sufficient instrument supply for our new installations, managing delays and executing allocation strategies. It is a highly visible role focusing on a mission critical product portfolio: core lab instruments. Responsible for ensuring that product requirements are forecasted accurately in the demand plan. This encompasses planning activities; coordination of product introductions, replacements and sun setting; reporting activities; process improvement; and problem-solving as issues occur. This role also provides leadership and mentoring to other team members while concurrently developing solutions to department-specific issues, proposing process improvement initiatives, supporting business critical and strategic cross-functional teams.

• Monitors supply status of critical instruments, communicating and mitigating any risks and delays to appropriate stakeholders.
• Develops reporting tools to better manage and monitor supply.
• Develops process for managing supply and requests for new installations as part of a recurring, cohesive, cross-functional process for managing required resources.
• Collaborating with multiple local and global resources to improve supply through better forecasting, project management and supply planning.
• Maintains demand planning data and oversees data quality in SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO).
• Develops and maintains local demand forecasts in SAP APO based on demand data and statistical forecasting models. Ensures a high level of accuracy and assists in developing specific Demand Planning (DP) goals and objectives.
• In coordination with Marketing and Supply Chain, conducts demand planning forecast modeling and trending and presents findings to Management. Shares harmonized forecasts with Supply Chain global operations.
• Oversees Demand Life Cycle Management data management process within affiliate and coordinates information requirements with Global Planning LC expert
• Coordinates cross-functional research activities (i.e. Affiliate Supply Chain, Sales/Marketing, Finance, Global Demand Planner, etc.) to reconcile significant variances in forecast models versus actual demand.
• Develops and maintains demand planning analytics tools and methodologies and reporting tools.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field; or 4 years experience in a related field
• 5 years of experience in logistics, marketing, production, inventory control or purchasing functions with an international focus

Preferred Qualifications:

• Highly proficient in materials management and supply chain data analysis. Tools to support include SAP Demand Planning (APO DP), Production Planning (APO PP/Data Services, R/3 and/or Business Information Warehouse (BW)
• Project Management Skills
• Experienced in developing new process and improving existing processes cross-functionally
• Experience with advanced data analytics and business intelligence tools, e.g. Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, SQL, along with self-motivated desire to continuously self-teach new tools
  

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting

The expected salary range for this position is based on the primary location of Indiana, preferably Northwest Indiana, is between $79,600.00 - $147,800.00 USD Annual. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100'000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let's build a healthier future, together.

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