Senior Manager- Demand Planning

About CooperSurgical

CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women’s 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, we're driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience life's 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 women’s 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 www.coopersurgical.com. 

Work location: Trumbull, CT or Livingston, NJ (on-site position at either location)

Scope: 

The Senior Manager, Demand Planning, is responsible for all demand planning activities for the Cooper Surgical business unit. The business is currently comprised of 3 commercial segments, 4,000 actively sold products, and annual revenue exceeding one billion dollars.

Job Summary:

The Sr. Manager, Demand Planning is accountable for high-quality, unconstrained consensus demand plans, and the global process to enrich, consolidate, and publish those plans for high-growth business. The scope of this role is to manage people, processes and systems across demand planning as well as supporting the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) processes.

In this role, you and your global team will be the trusted authority of the company’s 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. 

• Selects, leads and manages the team of demand planners across the company
• Ensures the appropriate process structure, inputs, outputs, reviews, and cadence of demand planning globally to deliver company demand plans on a monthly cycle
• Drives the appropriate metrics, KPI’s, and exception management systems to ensure the next demand plan is more credible than the last
• Continuously optimizes the demand planning tools to provide robust statistical models, data integrity, and outputs at appropriate hierarchy levels (regions & products)
• 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
• Create and maintain documentation and Standard Operating Procedures for demand forecasting, planning processes, and systems. Ensure demand planning processes meet legal requirements and standards

Travel: 

• Domestic and international travel will be a part of this role, ranging from 10-20%

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to interact effectively with senior management
• Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities, with direct, applied experience in supply chain 
• Ability to successfully create clear actionable objectives and facilitate career planning for team members
• 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:

• 10 years+ of relevant supply chain management experience. Specific experience in demand plannin