Sr. Demand Planner

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

JOB SUMMARY:
Serve as supply chain partner to BU, to lead demand planning, supply planning, inventory management and direct procumbent. The role encompasses a high level of risk management and order management accountabilities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
•    Work with all S&OP stakeholders to continuously drive demand forecast, forecast accuracy and demand fulfillment rate.
•    Develop and be responsible for the inventory plan and execution for the market.  Supply to inventory optimization opportunity analysis and deployment.  Analyze and report inventory variance. 
•    Own the communication strategy to the commercial team for supply issues. Lead commercial meetings to review pipelines and manage country fulfillment. Communicate any required parameter changes for cluster/country (e.g. lead time (F), safety stock (MP), freq. (F). Connect with NP’s and commercial and other stakeholders any mid-cycle MPS adjustments, DRP parameters and proactively resolve supply issues. 
•    Understand, resolve, communicate, bring up low cover products.
•    Manage back-order risks with Supply Planner and communicate to commercial teams (In some cluster/country (e.g. US), market role will be limited to imported products).
•    Lead the strategic stock build planning for the market driven by import license registration, M&A, supply issue, etc. Time will be spent understanding the product registration and operation processes, market demand, and the Market Planner will generate different scenarios influencing multiple stakeholders to ensure informed decisions.   
•    Develop and be responsible for the inventory plan and execution for the market.  Contribute to inventory optimization opportunity analysis and deployment.  Analyze and report inventory variance being the accountable owner.   
•    Order management including Order replenishment plan, purchase order creation in SAP / JDE system, monitoring inbound POs, and work with Supply Planner, global logistics and transportation, shipping site, global carriers and foreign trade to find resolution to short term supply issues. 
•    Monitor customer limits and rebalance product allocation, when needed in collaboration with marketing partners. 
•    Provide country or market-level feedback to Network Planner and Supply (Network) Manager. 
•    Lead new product launches and product phase outs within the market.
•    Update of JDE sourcing to direct DP forecast to the correct BP (site) subject to geographies and local processes/ownership.  Build and maintain reports for commercial team including transfer orders and customer-specific reports. (In some cluster/country (e.g. US), the Market Planner role will be limited to imported products). Provide information on any system/planning parameter changes for their cluster.
•    Confirm transfer orders for products imported to their country/cluster Market Planners will confirm the transfer orders from planning systems for products that are imported to their country/cluster except for US & Canada.
•    Make decisions and approve all Supply issue resolution for imported products. 
•    Complete monthly reserve proposal, identify and communicate opportunities for discard avoidance.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor degree; Preferred major: Trade, Logistics, Science, Engineering, Economics, Business Management,
• 5+ years relevant working experience preferred
• Import/export experience or SAP and JDE knowledge is a plus
•     Agile to learn
•     Team-work spirit
•     Process and detail oriented
•     Willing and able to drive for results
•     Data driven

Language:

  Proficient English in both written and oral

Reasonable Accommodations

Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please send an e-mail to ************@baxter.com and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.

Recruitment Fraud Notice

Baxter has discovered incidents of employment scams, where fraudulent parties pose as Baxter employees, recruiters, or other agents, and engage with online job seekers in an attempt to steal personal and/or financial information. To learn how you can protect yourself, review our Recruitment Fraud Notice.