EMEA Demand & Supply Planning Analyst - Ethicon Endo-Surgery-00000P4M
Description
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting for an
EMEA Demand & Supply Planning Analyst located in Brussels (Diegem), Belgium.
Ethicon Endo-Surgery develops and markets advanced medical devices for minimally invasive and open surgical procedures, focusing on procedure-enabling devices for the interventional diagnosis and treatment of conditions in general and bariatric surgery, as well as gastrointestinal health, gynecology and surgical oncology. More information can be found at the new company website www.ees.com.
The EMEA Demand & Supply Planning analyst 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 ensures 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 Planning analyst will be responsible for ensuring close alignment with global network planner and other business partners on management of supply planning activities into regional distribution centers for assigned product range 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)
Demand Planning responsibilities
- 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
- Manage and coordinate with regional and global partners new product introductions and parameters set up according to regional/Country Demand Plan and projected inventory pipeline
- Partner with Regional and country commercial partners – act as supply chain representative in brand leadership teams
- Provide trend analysis to influence decision making on product portfolio plans
- Support Tender Management processes
- 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.)
- Initiate and lead process improvements projects
Supply planning responsibilities
- Lead supply reviews with distribution centers for products requiring Value Added Services (VAS) inc. procedural packs & single unit de-pack/re-pack operations
- Provide inventory governance for EES EMEA - 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
- Identify opportunities to optimize inventory levels and deliver on inventory targets
- 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
- Work with affiliates in reviewing Demand Plans supporting inventory optimization strategies identifying actions to reduce SLOB inventories across the region
- Own follow-up with EDC on blue zone management including management of QA cage
- Initiate and lead process improvements projects
Ensure credo values are followed in long and short term tasks
Ensure compliance with the Quality Manuals and standards
Qualifications
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferably in Business, Logistics or Engineering. Master degree is a plus
- 4 or more years experience in a supply chain / planning function
- Experience and proficiency of ERP and APS planning tools, including Demantra
- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Access, PowerPoint as well as reporting tools such e.g. Cognos
- Working knowledge of financial processes
Other Skills and Abilities
- 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
- Open-minded and debating attitude. Willingness to learn.
- Excellent social, influencing and communication skills
- Knowledge of Process Excellence and / or LEAN concepts is a plus
- Fluency in English
Primary Location:Europe/Middle East/Africa-Belgium-Brussels-Capital Region-Diegem
Organization: European Logistics Center (8785)
Job Function: Inventory Planning/Control
Description
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting for an
EMEA Demand & Supply Planning Analyst located in Brussels (Diegem), Belgium.
Ethicon Endo-Surgery develops and markets advanced medical devices for minimally invasive and open surgical procedures, focusing on procedure-enabling devices for the interventional diagnosis and treatment of conditions in general and bariatric surgery, as well as gastrointestinal health, gynecology and surgical oncology. More information can be found at the new company website www.ees.com.
The EMEA Demand & Supply Planning analyst 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 ensures 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 Planning analyst will be responsible for ensuring close alignment with global network planner and other business partners on management of supply planning activities into regional distribution centers for assigned product range 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)
Demand Planning responsibilities
- 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
- Manage and coordinate with regional and global partners new product introductions and parameters set up according to regional/Country Demand Plan and projected inventory pipeline
- Partner with Regional and country commercial partners – act as supply chain representative in brand leadership teams
- Provide trend analysis to influence decision making on product portfolio plans
- Support Tender Management processes
- 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.)
- Initiate and lead process improvements projects
Supply planning responsibilities
- Lead supply reviews with distribution centers for products requiring Value Added Services (VAS) inc. procedural packs & single unit de-pack/re-pack operations
- Provide inventory governance for EES EMEA - 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
- Identify opportunities to optimize inventory levels and deliver on inventory targets
- 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
- Work with affiliates in reviewing Demand Plans supporting inventory optimization strategies identifying actions to reduce SLOB inventories across the region
- Own follow-up with EDC on blue zone management including management of QA cage
- Initiate and lead process improvements projects
Ensure credo values are followed in long and short term tasks
Ensure compliance with the Quality Manuals and standards
Qualifications
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferably in Business, Logistics or Engineering. Master degree is a plus
- 4 or more years experience in a supply chain / planning function
- Experience and proficiency of ERP and APS planning tools, including Demantra
- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Access, PowerPoint as well as reporting tools such e.g. Cognos
- Working knowledge of financial processes
Other Skills and Abilities
- 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
- Open-minded and debating attitude. Willingness to learn.
- Excellent social, influencing and communication skills
- Knowledge of Process Excellence and / or LEAN concepts is a plus
- Fluency in English
Primary Location:Europe/Middle East/Africa-Belgium-Brussels-Capital Region-Diegem
Organization: European Logistics Center (8785)
Job Function: Inventory Planning/Control