Sr. Manager, Customer Demand Planning

Waltham, MA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 117000 - 175500

Posted on: 14 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

The Sr. Manager Customer Demand Planning (CDP) is a Bioproduction Group role accountable for high-quality customer demand plans and the global process by which to develop enrich and communicate those plans across a broad stakeholder group. This high impact/high visibility role leads a group of customer-facing planners focused on some of our largest and most strategic pharma & biotech customers.

You and your team are vital to a successful Thermo Fisher demand planning process and the Sales Inventory and Operations Planning process (SIOP) at large. However you will also be a customer advocate focused on end-to-end joint improvements that bring mutual value. As such the role will also deliver critical customer data and insights back to the various Divisions and BUs to facilitate supply decisions financial forecasting and other key initiatives.

The candidate will be seen as a trusted partner to Commercial colleagues Product Management and the supply chain function.

What will you do

Position your team to be the trusted authority of customer demand plans leveraging history customer forecast data molecule intelligence industry and other insights

Collaborates with Accounts on their manufacturing plans (campaigns) related purchase projections to Thermo Fisher and seeks to understand the customer dynamics that impact demand signal quality

Develops with Commercial the engagement approach to improve collaboration at the Account sites articulating mutual benefits of the CDP program to strengthen relationships

Coaches the team on how best to extract and refine customer intelligence via customer meetings with clear agendas inputs outputs risks and opportunities

Ensures effective high-quality demand Interlock process for Accounts thru alignment meetings with a broad set of stakeholders covering new (future) and repeat (existing) business

Articulates and educates how Thermo Fisher bioprocessing materials are used in key customer drugs molecules and brands to enrich the forecasting process

Owns the targeted improvement of customer metrics including forecast accuracy forecast bias forecast value add as well as a robust root cause and corrective action (RCCA) process

Ensures the development and delivery of a clear and concise update for each Account thru standard operating mechanisms (customer pre-demand reviews interlocks SIOP meetings)

Owns the creation and refinement of the Playbooks for consistent training and standard work across the team

How will you get here

Basic Qualifications

BS/BA degree in supply chain forecasting Business or operations management

7 years of experience in demand planning sales operations forecasting or customer excellence role

Understanding of the SIOP or IBP process statistical forecasting and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) concepts

Strong analytics acumen interpretation of data and ability to translate into customer insights

Excellent customer communication skills and problem-solving customer issues

Preferred Qualifications

Pharma/Biotech experience

Demantra or other Demand Planning Tools experience

CRM experience

Power BI experience

Professional certification such as CPIM or CSCP

Project Certification (Lean Six Sigma Belt or PMP)

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Massachusetts is $117000.00$175500.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company team and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on which includes:

A choice of national medical and dental plans and a national vision plan including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO) 10 paid holidays annually paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave) accident and life insurance and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

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Work ScheduleStandard (Mon-Fri)Environmental ConditionsOfficeJob DescriptionAs part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make...