SEA & India EP Planning Lead

Position Summary

Providebriefand concise statement explaining the main purpose for the existence of this position.Providea brief summaryof the role.

The SEA & India EP Planning Lead is the primary demand planning and IBP lead for Electrophysiology across Southeast Asia and India reporting to the Senior ManagerROAEP Planning. Based in Pune this role owns country- and cluster-level demand forecastsfacilitatesIBP/S&OP execution across markets and supervises a small local planning team. The role partners closely with Commercial (Field Sales Distributor Services Clinical Affairs) Supply Planning Logistics and Finance to ensure product availability for EP labs support launches and balance service levels with working capital constraints.

The roles scope of responsibilities include:

• Own end-to-end demand planning and consensus forecasting for EP products across India and SEA markets.

• Facilitate the regional/country IBP and S&OP cadences prepare inputs run demand reviews reconciledifferences.

• Translate commercial inputs (lab procedure schedules physician adoption distributor orders tenders) into robust demand signals and replenishment recommendations.

• Manage and coach local planners and distributor planning contacts; review forecast changes and approve local demand plan updates.

• Execute launch demand scenarios and readiness activities for country rollouts; coordinate stock stagingallocationand local launch inventories.

• Drive forecast accuracy improvements and root-cause analysis by product segmentchanneland customer type; implement corrective actions.

• Provide analytics reporting and inventory insights to commercial and supply stakeholders (forecast variance service level risk DSO impact).

• Maintain regular engagement with distributors and key hospital/procurement stakeholders to improve demand visibility.

• Support regional initiatives to improve planning systems and data flows.

• Ensure planning processescomply withquality and regulatory requirements.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

In order of importance briefly describe in sentence form the essential functions/major responsibilities of this position(principal duties and responsibilities of the position) as it exists today.Describe the job not the person in the job.Each item listed below should be an essential function/majorresponsibility of the position not a day-to-day activity.

Typically job descriptions shouldcontainno more than seven or eight major responsibilities ranked in order of highest percentage time to least.

Approximate Percentage of Time

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

45%

• Demand forecasting consensusplanningand IBP execution

20%

• Stakeholder engagement with Commercial Distributors and Supply

15%

• Team supervisioncoachingand governance

10%

• Launch planning and scenario analysis

10%

• Analyticsreportingand continuous improvement

100%

• Total

Qualifications

Consider andidentifyqualifications potential applicants mustpossessin order tobe considered for the position.Basic Qualifications must be clearly stated objective and relevant to this particular position.

Required Minimum Education:BachelorsDegreeis MBA or further advanced degree is desirableOtherN/A

Required Years of Related Experience:Min3yearsOtherN/A

KnowledgeSkillsand Abilities(Uncompromised requirements for the role):

(Include any required computer skills certifications licenses languages etc.)

• Experience in demand planning supply chain planning or integrated business planning experience withhealthcare/FMCGproducts preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to run IBP/S&OP cadences at country or cluster level and translate commercial inputs into demand plans.

• Hands-on experience with planning systems (SAP IBP Kinaxis Oracle Demantra or equivalent) and strong Excel/data analysis skills.

• Proven stakeholder management and communication skills; comfortable engaging with commercial leaders clinicalstakeholdersand distributors.

• Experience supervising or mentoring planners and coordinating cross-market planning activities.

• Eligible to live and work in India.

Travel on the Job

Indicate whether this position requires travel.

Yes

Percentage Travel:

10%

Type of Travel Required:

Domestic (APAC)

International

People Management Experience:

Indicate whether supervisor/people management experience is.

No

Required Years of People Management Experience:

NA

Preferred Qualifications

Consider andidentifyqualifications that are notto perform thejob butwould be veryhelpfulassetsto performing the job.

PreferredMinimum Education:BachelorsorEquivalentOtherN/A

Preferred Area of Study:BS/BA in an applicable field of study; advanced degree is preferred MBA a plus

Preferred Related Industry Experience(if applicable):Life SciencesMedTechnologyFMCG

PreferredKnowledgeSkillsand Abilities:

(Include anypreferredcomputer skills certifications licenses languagesetcor abilities that are assets toperformingin the role.)

• Prior experience working across India and ASEAN markets; knowledge of market dynamics tendercyclesand distributor models in these geographies.

• Exposure toPower BI / Tableau or scripting (Python/R) for automation and advanced analytics.

Key Working Relationships

Identifythe most important working relationships with people inside and outside the company including customers vendors associations etc. Brieflydescribe the nature of the contacts.

Internal

• Commercial: Country Sales Distributor Services Clinical & Medical Affairs (EP BU)

• Supply & Logistics: Supply Planning Distribution Quality & Regulatory

• Finance: Country/Cluster Finance FP&A

• Regional: Senior Manager EP Planning Regional IBP leads Global Planning/Category teams

External

• Distributors and 3PL partners in India and SEA

• Hospital procurement and EP lab clinical champions

Supervisory Responsibilities

Listnumberof employees reporting to this position both directly and through direct reports.

Direct/IndirectReports:

• NA

Decision Making Authority -Check allappropriate decision-makingauthoritylevelfor this position.

Makes hiring recommendations

Makes hiring decisions

Trains employees

Plans work of others

Reviews work quality and quantity of others

Conducts performance reviews

Determinesresource allocation

Makes pay and promotional recommendations

Makes pay and promotional decisions

Resolves employee grievances

Makes termination recommendations

Makes termination decisions

Recommends budget amounts

Makes budget decisions