Senior Manager, Global Demand Planning

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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.

• Define maintain and continuously improve global demand management policies processes standards and tools in alignment with Sales Inventory and Operations Planning principles.
• Serve as the global business process owner for demand planning and demand management.
• Establish governance mechanisms that promote consistency data integrity analytical rigor transparency and process adherence across regions and business units.
• Develop and maintain global process documentation standard operating procedures planning calendars decision rights and escalation protocols.
• Establish performance metrics and a continuous improvement roadmap for global demand planning.
• Analyze forecast performance identify root causes of forecast error and bias and lead corrective and preventive actions.
• Apply the Thermo Fisher Scientific Practical Process Improvement Business System to eliminate waste improve planning effectiveness and strengthen the customer experience.
• Facilitate regular governance reviews to assess performance adoption risks and opportunities.

• Coach and mentor demand forecasters planners analysts and business partners to strengthen technical capabilities and planning proficiency.
• Promote standardized ways of working while recognizing appropriate differences in markets businesses and product portfolios.
• Develop and deliver training programs planning playbooks reference materials and capability-building sessions.
• Create communities of practice that encourage knowledge sharing collaboration and adoption of planning best practices.
• Promote planning discipline accountability and continuous improvement across the global organization.
• Assess capability gaps and implement development plans that advance demand planning maturity.
• Support onboarding and training for new planners system users and business stakeholders.

• Coordinate the end-to-end global demand planning cycle ensuring timely completion clear documentation effective governance and high-quality handoffs.
• Develop validate maintain and execute centralized statistical forecasting models.
• Partner with commercial teams to efficiently incorporate customer insights market intelligence product strategies lifecycle events and business assumptions into demand plans.
• Facilitate consensus demand reviews and support executive-level planning discussions as required.
• Support the development of annual operating plan and long-range plan demand projections.
• Lead or support scenario modeling sensitivity analysis and risk-and-opportunity assessments.
• Ensure demand assumptions are clearly documented quantified and communicated to supply planning operations finance and business leadership.
• Partner with supply planning teams to translate demand signals into effective supply capacity and inventory decisions.
• Support new product introductions product transitions discontinuations promotions and other significant demand events.
• Identify demand-related constraints gaps and emerging trends that may affect customer service or financial performance.

• Serve as the demand management subject-matter expert for planning reporting analytics and enterprise systems.
• Partner with information technology digital data and system teams to resolve issues prioritize enhancements and deploy new functionality.
• Support the design implementation testing and adoption of advanced planning solutions.
• Identify and lead initiatives involving process automation AI-enabled forecasting advanced analytics and decision-support capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging planning technologies and recommend opportunities that improve forecast quality productivity scalability and user experience.
• Oversee demand-related master data processes required for accurate forecasting and reliable system performance.
• Establish data quality controls and governance practices for products customers locations planning hierarchies history and other forecasting attributes.
• Develop dashboards and executive-ready analytics that clearly communicate forecast performance assumptions risks opportunities and recommended actions.
• Promote responsible and effective use of AI-enabled tools in accordance with company policies and applicable regulatory requirements.

Success in this role will be demonstrated through:

• High-quality demand plans supported by transparent assumptions scenarios and analytics.
• Improved forecast accuracy and effective management of forecast bias.
• Increased adoption and consistent execution of standardized demand planning processes and tools.
• Stronger integration among commercial finance demand planning supply planning and operations teams.
• Improved planning productivity process efficiency and organizational capability.
• Effective translation of demand signals into supply capacity and inventory decisions.
• Improved visibility to business risks opportunities and potential customer-service impacts.
• Greater use of statistical forecasting advanced analytics and automation.
• Sustainable process improvements supported by clear governance and performance management.

• Bachelors degree in supply chain business engineering operations analytics finance or a related discipline required.
• Master of Business Administration Master of Science or another relevant advanced degree preferred.
• Professional certifications such as IBF CPF APICS/ASCM CPIM or CSCP Lean Six Sigma PMP or relevant data and analytics credentials are highly desirable.

• Five or more years of experience in demand planning supply planning Sales Inventory and Operations Planning integrated business planning or a related supply chain function.
• Strong working knowledge of demand planning and SIOP/S&OP processes.
• Experience within life sciences diagnostics medical technology pharmaceutical services healthcare or another regulated industry is preferred.
• Three or more years of demonstrated experience leading demand planning process improvements in a complex matrixed and cross-functional organization.
• Experience coordinating global or multi-regional planning processes.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise planning improvements process standardization or business transformation initiatives.
• Experience developing and implementing statistical forecasting models and demand analytics.
• Experience supporting annual operating plans long-range plans scenario modeling and executive planning reviews.

• Strong knowledge of demand planning principles forecasting methods performance measurement and bias management.
• Hands-on experience with advanced planning platforms such as Kinaxis /Rapid Response or an equivalent solution.
• Hands-on experience with advanced planning platforms such as Demantra or an equivalent solution.
• Experience with enterprise resource planning systems and demand-related master data.
• Experience with analytics and visualization tools such as Power BI Tableau or equivalent platforms.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled forecasting agentic AI tools process automation or advanced analytics.
• Ability to translate complex data and planning concepts into clear insights recommendations and executive-ready materials.
• Strong business acumen with an understanding of the relationships among demand revenue inventory capacity customer service and financial performance.
• Strong interpersonal communication facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment without direct reporting authority.
• Ability to work effectively across business units functions cultures and geographic regions.
• Strong process discipline attention to detail and commitment to data integrity.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a continuous improvement mindset.

Candidates considered for the Senior Manager level will typically demonstrate:

• Significant experience leading global process governance center-of-excellence or enterprise process-owner activities.
• A successful record of leading enterprise-wide planning transformations or large-scale process improvements.
• Greater depth in advanced analytics statistical modeling AI-enabled planning or digital supply chain transformation.
• The ability to independently lead complex cross-functional initiatives with significant business impact.
• Strong influence with senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
• Experience establishing global strategies roadmaps governance models and performance management frameworks.
• The ability to coach senior planning practitioners and lead organizational capability-building initiatives.

Compensation and Benefits

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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