Network Planner

4 weeks ago

Old Toongabbie, Australia BAXTER Full time

**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.

**Summary**:
The Senior Network Planner is responsible for balancing and optimizing supply planning to meet demand. The Senior Network Planner serves as the link between commercial team (at a country level where the plant sits) and S&OP by collaborating with demand planning, plant leadership, and business units. This includes defining and implementing supply planning process, determining priorities, including creation of MRP for sourcing of materials, DRP, MPS, driving process improvements, and leading supply review.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:
**This section contains a list of five to eight primary responsibilities of this role that account for the majority of the work. The incumbent will perform other duties assigned.**
- Responsible for generating the replenishment requirements utilizing the demand signal, on-hand inventory and inventory targets that deliver a comprehensive network supply plan across the supply chain organization, to meet all financial requirements, operational capabilities, and wholesalers service objectives for assigned Business Unit.
- Undertaking advanced analytics and driving process improvements managing a large complex product portfolio.
- Facilitates exception-based planning to maintain targeted inventory levels, prevent stock-outs and balance financial impacts
- Responsible for setting monthly inventory strategy for BU thru management of Inventory Optimization tool optimal inventory targets at various locations in the supply chains to achieve the service objectives with minimum working capital investment.
- The Senior Network Planner is empowered to make changes to the network supply plan when deemed necessary over the planning horizon. Changes are to be governed through sales and operations execution (S&OE) and planning (S&OP) process.
- Collaborates and proactively communicates to drive a consensus approach to provide replenishment plans and exception-based reporting for assigned BU. Makes recommendations on actions needed to meet actual and forecasted demand.
- Responsible for independently managing new product introductions and product conversions.
- Reports Key Performance Indicators for their given Business Unit complete with process improvement initiatives and prioritizes tasks and deliverables in a timeline intense environment.
- Supports the Sr. Network Supply Planning Manager to drive continuous improvement efforts to improve performance on all key metrics, including service targets and network inventory levels.
- Facilitating / delivering training and undertaking coaching.

**Qualifications**:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. List knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, & problem-solving skills required
- Strong mathematical and analytical skills including experience with statistical analysis and data modeling.
- Must be proficient in data gathering and quantitative and qualitative data analysis, including business process metrics and measures linking to business KPIs.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with co-workers, related internal functions, external partners, and on project teams.
- Process improvement & demonstrated results turn-around a plus. Customer management skills and experience a plus
- Solid, straightforward, and professional oral and written communication skills, including presenting data and analysis clearly to management.
- Ability to work with all levels and functions within the Company, and with external business partners.
- APICS certification a plus.
- Self-directed and possess a sense of urgency.
- Meets deadlines and work under pressure, with limited supervision.
- Well-organized and high level of attention to detail.

**Education and/or Experience**:
**Include the education and experience that is necessary to perform the job satisfactorily.**
- B.A./B.S. Supply Chain, Operations or a business-related field
- Extensive experience in an end-to-end supply chain role, including experience in S&OP process development and systems, experience

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