Market Planner

• Manage inventory at country or cluster level
• Examine and mitigate supply exceptions at country level
• Drive communications between the commercial team, customer support, Quality, Network Planners, and fulfillment teams regarding gaps between inventory and customer demand especially in import markets
• Work with Network Planners to mitigate short and medium-term supply and inventory issues and determine strategy for communicating gaps between inventory and customer demand to commercial team
• In import scenarios, manage fulfillment within country nodes, along with driving process optimization and continuous improvement ideas and projects
• Management of import or manufactured finish goods, equipment or spare parts through relationship with international and intercompany suppliers and other external entities
• Develop and own the deployment plan and execution for the market
• Analyze and report inventory variance within country being the accountable owner
• Guarantee KPI´s accomplishment as inventory level, cash flow, service level, backorder, discard and Supply Chain expenses
• Own the communication strategy to the commercial team for low coverage supply issues and back-order risks
• Lead commercial meetings to review pipelines and manage country fulfillment
• Order management to include, monitoring, tracking and expediting inbound POs as needed
• Work with Network Planner, global logistics, transportation, and warehousing to find resolution to short term supply issues
• Communicate with Network Planner and key stakeholders any required system parameter changes for cluster/country (lead times, safety stock, QA releases)
• Support all activities for the market driven by change controls, import license registration, new product launches, product phase outs, etc
• Time will be spent understanding the product set-up, product registration, operation processes, and market demand
• Identify and execute improvement projects looking for inventory levels optimization
• Complete monthly reserve proposal, identify and communicate opportunities for discard avoidance and follow through the opportunities to ensure they are executed

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 1 to 3 years related experience in supply chain management - warehousing, distribution, logistics, transportation, customer service and/or inventory planning is required
• English (Required)
• Advance Excel (Required)
• Knowledge in planning or deployment tools (Required)
• APICS (Desirable)
• Critical thinking and strong analytics
• Strong communication and good team and interpersonal relationships
• Business knowledge
• Conflict Management
• Focus on customer
• Integrity and Professional Ethics
• High responsibility
• Management of Ambiguity
• Passion for Improvement

APICS (Desirable)