EMEA Demand & Supply Planning Analyst-00000IIG
Description
The EMEA Demand & Supply Planner is responsible for managing the regional S&OP process ensuring overall alignment with the Global Franchise S&OP Process. He/she will be responsible for alignment on an accurate regional consensus forecast, developing demand scenarios (risks & opportunities), supporting regional marketing in developing product portfolio plans as well as overall metric improvement actions. He/she builds collaborative partnerships with both commercial and supply chain partners and ensure that community of country Demand Planners are informed and aligned with Franchise strategies supporting consistency in approach through country S&OP process.
In addition the EMEA Demand & Supply Planner will be responsible for ensuring close alignment with network planner and other business partners on management of supply planning activities into regional distribution centers for assigned codes while supporting supply planning processes for codes requiring value added services in regional distribution center.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities(responsibilities which account for more than 50% of job)
- Own the regional S&OP process aligning communications between Commercial and Supply Chain partners ensuring connectivity with Business Planning process
- Manage and consolidate the EMEA Regional Demand Plan working directly with the Country Planners within the EMEA Region.
- Understand market trends and identify forecast improvement strategies to deliver KPI’s including regional Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), service and inventory targets
- Provide trend analysis to influence decision making on product portfolio plans
- Manage inventory levels in regional distribution centers by reviewing frequently Demand Plan, Safety Stocks, Lead Times and any other relevant system parameters, propose improvements of the planning processes and parameters, and understand the impact of the required changes
- Ensure that Demand Plan and Business Plan processes align and identify gap closing actions
- Maintain Demand Planning tool for EMEA region (product set up, statistical forecast, data integrity etc.)
- Organize and provide training on Demand Planning (DP) tool to EMEA Demand Planning community
- Provide monthly or weekly Demand Planning reports (MAPE, consumption reports etc.)
- Work with distribution centers and regional marketing to manage backorders and allocation of products against outstanding customer orders during periods of short supply
- Provide Available to Promise (ATP) data to our customers considering projected product supply plans
- Support Tender Management processes
- Ensure credo values are followed in long and short term tasks
- Ensure compliance with the Quality Manuals and standards
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferably in Business, Logistics or Engineering
- 2 or more years experience in a supply chain / planning function
- Experience and proficiency of ERP and APS planning tools
- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Access, PowerPoint as well as reporting tools such e.g. Cognos
- Strong analytical, systems and numeracy skills with capability to master complexity
- Demonstrated bias for continuous improvement, problem solving and decision making ability
- Comfortable with ambiguity and identifies and executes new ways to deliver targets
- Superior team player who keeps calm under challenging situations and with ability to multitask
- Strong customer focus (internal & external)
- Excellent social, influencing and communication skills
- Knowledge of Process Excellence and / or LEAN concepts, a plus
- Fluency in English
Primary Location:Europe/Middle East/Africa-Belgium-Brussels-Capital Region-Diegem
Organization: GMED (7548)
Job Function: Business Development
Description
The EMEA Demand & Supply Planner is responsible for managing the regional S&OP process ensuring overall alignment with the Global Franchise S&OP Process. He/she will be responsible for alignment on an accurate regional consensus forecast, developing demand scenarios (risks & opportunities), supporting regional marketing in developing product portfolio plans as well as overall metric improvement actions. He/she builds collaborative partnerships with both commercial and supply chain partners and ensure that community of country Demand Planners are informed and aligned with Franchise strategies supporting consistency in approach through country S&OP process.
In addition the EMEA Demand & Supply Planner will be responsible for ensuring close alignment with network planner and other business partners on management of supply planning activities into regional distribution centers for assigned codes while supporting supply planning processes for codes requiring value added services in regional distribution center.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities(responsibilities which account for more than 50% of job)
- Own the regional S&OP process aligning communications between Commercial and Supply Chain partners ensuring connectivity with Business Planning process
- Manage and consolidate the EMEA Regional Demand Plan working directly with the Country Planners within the EMEA Region.
- Understand market trends and identify forecast improvement strategies to deliver KPI’s including regional Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE), service and inventory targets
- Provide trend analysis to influence decision making on product portfolio plans
- Manage inventory levels in regional distribution centers by reviewing frequently Demand Plan, Safety Stocks, Lead Times and any other relevant system parameters, propose improvements of the planning processes and parameters, and understand the impact of the required changes
- Ensure that Demand Plan and Business Plan processes align and identify gap closing actions
- Maintain Demand Planning tool for EMEA region (product set up, statistical forecast, data integrity etc.)
- Organize and provide training on Demand Planning (DP) tool to EMEA Demand Planning community
- Provide monthly or weekly Demand Planning reports (MAPE, consumption reports etc.)
- Work with distribution centers and regional marketing to manage backorders and allocation of products against outstanding customer orders during periods of short supply
- Provide Available to Promise (ATP) data to our customers considering projected product supply plans
- Support Tender Management processes
- Ensure credo values are followed in long and short term tasks
- Ensure compliance with the Quality Manuals and standards
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferably in Business, Logistics or Engineering
- 2 or more years experience in a supply chain / planning function
- Experience and proficiency of ERP and APS planning tools
- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Access, PowerPoint as well as reporting tools such e.g. Cognos
- Strong analytical, systems and numeracy skills with capability to master complexity
- Demonstrated bias for continuous improvement, problem solving and decision making ability
- Comfortable with ambiguity and identifies and executes new ways to deliver targets
- Superior team player who keeps calm under challenging situations and with ability to multitask
- Strong customer focus (internal & external)
- Excellent social, influencing and communication skills
- Knowledge of Process Excellence and / or LEAN concepts, a plus
- Fluency in English
Primary Location:Europe/Middle East/Africa-Belgium-Brussels-Capital Region-Diegem
Organization: GMED (7548)
Job Function: Business Development