Senior Global Supply Demand Planner

We are a medium-sized global leader in biomedical products, seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Global Supply Demand Planner to join our team in Ball Ground, GA. This role is responsible for optimizing material planning, supplier coordination, and demand forecasting to ensure efficient production, inventory control, and timely product delivery. This is an ONSITE position.

The Senior Planner will focus on improving forecast accuracy, reducing inventory costs, and driving continuous process improvements through cross-functional collaboration and advanced tools like ERP and data analytics. The position demands strong leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills to drive positive outcomes across various departments and meet customer demand efficiently.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Global Planning & Coordination:
• Lead and manage global supply demand planning, ensuring alignment across all regions to optimize material movements, production schedules, and inventory strategies.
• Forecasting & Demand Planning:
• Develop and maintain accurate demand forecasts, continuously adapting plans based on changes in forecast, production schedules, market conditions, and business strategies.
• SIOP Meeting Preparation & Analysis:
• Prepare and analyze data for Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) meetings, ensuring alignment between sales forecasts, inventory levels, and production capabilities.
• MRP/DRP Optimization:
• Utilize MRP (Material Requirements Planning) and DRP (Distribution Resource Planning) principles to forecast demand, manage inventory levels, set safety stock targets, and recommend replenishment quantities to minimize shortages and reduce costs.
• Inventory Optimization & Financial Alignment:
• Develop and maintain an optimized global inventory plan, balancing production and sales forecasts with financial strategies to minimize costs and stockouts.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration for Product Development:
• Engage in activities supporting New Product Development (NPD), product discontinuation (EOL), and product change control (CCB) processes to ensure smooth transitions and revenue attainment.
• Automation & Data Analytics Tools:
• Utilize and create automation and data analytics tools to enhance supply chain operations, improve efficiency, and provide teams with easy access to critical data for decision-making.
• Risk Management & Contingency Planning:
• Identify potential supply chain disruptions and develop proactive contingency plans to mitigate risks, ensuring timely product delivery across regions.
• AI Integration in Supply Chain:
• Leverage AI tools to optimize demand forecasting, inventory management, and process automation, improving accuracy and efficiency within the global supply chain.
• Customer Delivery Commitments:
• Provide delivery commitments to internal and external customers, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of products by managing inventory and production schedules effectively.

Competencies/Success Factors

• Organizing Skills
• Detail Orientation/Quality Focus
• Result Focus/Output Orientation
• Time Management
• Sales/Persuasion/Influence Skills
• Customer Focus
• Decision Making
• Strategic Skills

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus

Travel

Ability to travel up to approximately 10%.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in operations, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or related field required. Master’s in business administration or APICS certification is a plus.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in a role in supply chain, demand planning or inventory management, preferably in our industry.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written as oral.
• Sound time management skills, ability to work under pressure, balancing different, sometimes conflicting, priorities and goals.
• Proficient in planning software and ERP tools
• Fluent in Microsoft Office products including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.

Preferred Education and Experience

• 2 years of working experience with Oracle JD Edwards is a plus
• Experience utilizing AI in work processes is a plus.
• 2 years of working experience in medical device industry is a plus

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

None required for this position.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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