Demand Planning Manager Jobs

Our client, a global leader in the life sciences industry, is seeking a Demand Planning Manager to join their Wisconsin team! If you are looking for a chance to make a lasting impact on an organization that recognizes individual’s accomplishments, then this is the place for you.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with supply planning and logistics to evaluate the demand/production plan against inventory, capacity and external factors and to create mitigation actions if needed
• Manage the aggregation of the demand plan process with a region and business, producing a rolling 24-36 month estimate of unconstrained future demand in units and where possible in currency
• Work closely with marketing on planning/executing the launch and ramp-up for new products as well planning/managing other product-life-cycle phases
• Identify significant business risks and escalate to the appropriate leadership teams
• Coordinate and facilitate the monthly S&OP meetings for a region and business to achieve the demand plan consensus including strategic, product, sales, and marketing activities as well as supply plan balance and constraints/gaps
• Track performance metrics and analysis to identify both opportunities and potential issues within S&OP processes and reporting as well as those across departments; provide insights and recommendations to help improve results
• Facilitate prioritizing demand and/or allocating supply to a region when the demand exceeds supply
• Ensure efficient communication across functional teams for any trends, drivers and takeaways in a clear and concise manner
• Assist in the development of new tools that will assist in measurement, reporting and visibility to issues
• Facilitate closing gaps between the demand and supply plans and the annual financial plan and long-range plan (LRP). Suggest/prepare alternatives to resolve issues
• Assist in the documentation of assumptions incorporated in the demand and supply plan and validate past assumptions

Qualifications:

• SAC / SAP / Power BI / Anaplan experience preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or related field
• High proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel
• 7+ years’ experience in a supply chain, operations, supply/demand planning environment
• Professional certifications (e.g. CPIM/CSCP/CPF) and Membership in Professional Associations (e.g. APICS, ISM, IBF) preferred
• 3+ years’ experience in pharmaceutical/biotech manufacturing industry
• Master’s degree preferred
• S&OP experience is preferred