Senior Demand & Supply Planner

Senior Planner position is responsible for managing Demand and Inventory Planning activities of countries assigned. This role is the end-to-end planning business partner to the respective commercial markets and stakeholders and work to achieve KPIs such as forecast accuracy, OTIF, back order, and inventory. Senior Planner also manages all forecasting activities to create an accurate demand forecast with the outcome being a forecast which incorporates current and accurate market information, ensuring the company can correctly predict customer demand and provide the supply chain with the appropriate information to plan how to meet that customer demand. In addition, the role creates and maintains forecast models continually refining and improving forecasts for their respective categories, incorporating business intelligence, to anticipate customer demand and has responsibility for gathering and analyzing data for new product launches and forecast information gathered from multiple sources. Senior Planner manages and optimizes inventory at countries or a cluster level through working with Segment Market planning to mitigate short and medium-term supply and inventory issues and determine strategy for mitigating supply exceptions, as well as leading and driving communication of gaps between commercial team, customer support, Quality, Regulatory Affairs and fulfillment teams. The role encompasses a high level of commercial partnership, supply continuity and risk management accountabilities.