Principal Demand Planner
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Job Summary
About CooperSurgical
CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and womens healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women babies and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. As a division of CooperCompanies were driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience lifes beautiful moments. Guided by our shared values dedicated innovative friendly partners and do the right thing our offerings support patients throughout their lifetimes from contraception to fertility and birth solutions to womens and family care and beyond. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to healthcare providers including testing and treatment options as well as an innovative suite of assisted reproductive technology and genomic testing solutions. Learn more at.
Scope:
The Principal Demand Planner is responsible for all regional demand planning activities for the Cooper Surgical business unit. The EMEA business is comprised of 2 major business segments 2500 active products and annual revenue exceeding $200M.
Job Summary:
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 companys 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.
Responsibilities
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 KPIs 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: Bachelors degree in business supply chain management or relevant field
Preferred: Masters degree in business or supply chain management
Preferred: APICS or similar professional accreditation
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Forecasting
- Microsoft Access
- Math
- SAP
- Supply Chain Experience
- Analysis Skills
- SAP APO
- SAP Supply Chain Management
- Production Planning
- SAP ERP
- ERP Systems
- MRP
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