Job Description Summary

Job Description

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BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

The Manager Global Supply Planning reports to the Associate Director Global Supply Planning Microbiology Platform. Leads a team of Global Supply Planners across multiple WW Manufacturing sites. This position has responsibility for working with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the right Supply Chain strategies and processes are in place to support global and regional business and customer needs for DS Microbiology products. 

The role directly supports Global Marketing, Regional Supply Planning, Manufacturing Operations, Plant Finance, Quality Management and Regulatory Management to drive overall business performance for DS products. This includes delivering & improving overall service levels, inventory health levels, and cost saving objectives. It requires the ability to balance and stretch the often conflicting needs of cash inventory investments, efficient manufacturing, financial results, and customer service levels.

Accountable for the end-to-end supply planning excellence, strategic ideation and execution, acts as a change agent, and drives the GSC planning strategy toward improved end-to-end results. Provides SC planning leadership to support the Associate Director Global Supply Planning in setting prioritization & direction for Global Network Planners.

Directly involved in core business processes and lead major Supply Chain programs including evolution of DRP with centralized distribution planning/push model. The role is responsible for leading key IBP monthly process steps for the Microbiology plants and achieving key KPI metrics.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Devises and coordinates Supply Chain (SC) strategies on region/global supply chain planning and systems.

• Harmonizes processes and the organization of the team, in alignment with the Global SC strategies on end-to-end process excellence.

• Drives success by leading the monthly Global SIOP/IBP process-components related to the role; this specifically includes the “Supply Consensus” and “Supply Review” which drives insights on capacity vs demand, supply gaps, inventory (health) review, New Product Introductions & portfolio EOL rationalization; both on planner level as well as on different leadership levels.  The role personally ensures connection & alignment between the Platform process components, the Regional Demand process components and the DS components of the IBP process.

• Ensures the supply chain network operates to meet the needs for assigned BD market customers on a consistent basis.  Key performance measures of this include On Time & In Full, Backorder $, Inventory $-DIO, Inventory Health and Write-Offs (E&O/Stock Loss).

• Develops and executes a Global Inventory Strategy Process supported by the MEIO approach (Multi Echelon Inventory Optimization). Ensures the establishment of target inventory levels and mix to achieve management objectives for service levels, backorder incidence/duration and inventory- DIO goals.

• Together with the Manufacturing Operations Leaders, develops and updates Operations strategies that are aligned to the business strategies of the Platform.

• Drives overall Operations/Supply Chain process optimization by identifying and implementing best practices to improve both internal and external Supply Chain service and efficiency metrics.

• Supports & leads deployment to maintain the highest service to customers, with a zero-backorder mind set goal.

• Ensures robust measurable short- and long-term global processes are utilized driving consensus amongst Regions, Sales/Marketing, Platform, Finance and Operations which is utilized to project and monitor business financial performance and operating plans. This includes budgeting, financial forecasting, inventory management, capacity planning and sourcing. 

• Strong process improvement across SIOP/IBP and Demand/Supply Management with specific improvement focused on