Global Supply Chain Product Planner

Job Title: Global Supply Chain Product Planner

About the job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. Your job, as Global Supply Chain Product Planner within our [Team Name], will be to [summary of opportunity].

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

The main purpose of a Product Planner is to ensure that market demands for a product are met by supply along the IBP and S&OE horizon for commercial and new launch products including ramp up phase.

Job Purpose

• E2E Supply Chain Planning: Executes IBP and own S&OE horizon ensuring product balancing between demand & supply and gap remediation, responsible for net demand propagation, validation, and product deployment plans in Kinaxis.
• Master Data & Planning Parameters: Responsible for creation and continuous accuracy of products related master data and planning parameters in Kinaxis, ensuring alignment with E2E Product Leader's strategy/segmentation guidelines.
• IBP monthly cycle: contributes to the standard monthly and weekly E2E Planning process & decision loop in collaboration with Supply Planning and Site Planners
• Long term Strategy Support: Assist in strategic and budget planning, provide data-driven insights for long-term decisions, and incorporate strategic changes into planning systems.

Key Accountabilities

Responsible for End-to-End Supply Chain Planning for a product or set of products leveraging Kinaxis, dVSM and Plai.

IBP Horizon

• Drive ownership of product supply chain by validating net demand across all nodes (E2E) in Kinaxis on IBP horizon for a product or set of products.
• Shares net demand requirements with CMOs via EM&S
• Decides on escalations on exceptions on demand replenishment and deployment rules to Supply Planners and/or Product Leader
• Ensure that the deployment plan is aligned to the Global IBP Plan endorsed by the Franchise, to include enforcement/escalation of policy, inventory targets and financial impact.
• Validates supply plan provided by Supply Planning for product(s) E2E and monitors closely safety stock health.
• In relationship with other departments, especially GSP and Market Supply Chain, simulate scenarios across the network to develop risk management plans, address large scale supply issues and in response to GBU demand scenarios.
• Find solutions for provided supply response scenarios (constraints) e.g. product prioritization.

S&OE horizon

• Conduct Distribution Requirements planning: Finished Goods Packaging from markets to sites.
• Support production prioritization in case of crisis situation.
• Providing guidelines for sites to prioritize short-term issues.
• Understand the impact of risks/issues on the sites/CMO side on scheduled deliveries/FG availability.
• Report short-term issues impacting the IBP-horizon via S&OE process.

Responsible for Products Inventory Management & optimization:

• Implement inventory strategy defined by E2E Product Leaders and set inventory planning parameters in system (Kinaxis) across all nodes at sites and CMOs.
• Monitor and adjust inventory levels in Kinaxis to meet market demands and minimize costs, leveraging dVSM as a strategic tool.

Responsible for creation and update of Master Data for a product or set of products in Kinaxis in accordance with the strategy defined by the E2E Product Leader

• Maintain proper product related planning parameters (e.g., BOD = Bills of distribution, inventory targets, PV=Production Version priorities) needed to support plans and ensure changes are made and formally aligned across the SC.

Monthly Planning Cycle – IBP decision loop:

• Support preparation for the Global Supply Review
• Maintain product performance metrics and drive corrective actions.
• Assess, coordinate, and implement mitigation plan from IBP. 

Long term Strategy Support:

• Support the E2E Product Leader in strategic tasks such as strategic planning and