Market 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.

**About Baxter**

Baxter provides a broad portfolio of essential Renal and Hospital products, including home, acute and in-centre dialysis; sterile IV solutions; infusion systems and devices; parenteral nutrition; surgery products and anaesthetics; and pharmacy automation, software and services.

The company’s global footprint and the critical nature of its products and services play a key role in expanding access to healthcare in emerging and developed countries. Baxter’s employees worldwide are building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the next generation of healthcare innovations that enable patient care.

**The Role**

We have an exciting opportunity that has arisen for a dynamic **Market Planner** to join our Renal business responsible for managing inventory at country level. In this role you will be working across MPs monitoring, mitigating supply exceptions while leading and driving communications between the commercial team, customer support, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Network Planners, and fulfillment teams on gaps between inventory and customer demand especially within import markets.

Reporting to the ANZ Market Planning Manager, this role encompasses a high level of risk management and order management accountabilities, with a view to mitigating short and medium-term supply and inventory issues and determining strategy for effective communication with the commercial team.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Develop and own the inventory plan and execution for the market
- Drive for inventory optimization opportunity analysis and deployment
- Analyze and report inventory variances
- 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).
- Communicate with NP’s and commercial and other stakeholders to make any mid-cycle MPS adjustments, DRP parameters and proactively resolve supply issues
- Understand, resolve, communicate, escalate low cover products
- Manage back-order risks with Supply Planner and communicate to commercial teams
- Lead the strategic stock build planning for the market driven by import license registration, M&A, supply issue, etc.
- Generate different scenarios influencing multiple stakeholders to ensure informed decisions.
- Develop and own the inventory plan and execution for the market.
- Order management including 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 cooperation with marketing partners
- Provide country or market-level feedback to Network Planner and Supply (Network) Manager
- Manage new product launches and product phase outs within the market
- Build and maintain reports for commercial team including transfer orders and customer-specific reports. Provide information on any system/planning parameter changes for their cluster.
- Confirm transfer orders for products imported to their country/cluster
- Make decisions and approve all Supply issue resolution for imported products
- Complete monthly reserve proposal, identify and communicate opportunities for discard avoidance.

**Key Requirements of the role include**:

- Tertiary degree in Logistics/Supply Chain Management or related fields
- 5 -7 years related experience in supply chain management - warehousing, distribution, logistics, transportation, customer service or and inventory planning is required
- Detailed working knowledge of effective Supply Chain performance, including Operations management is highly desirable
- Significant experience of prioritization and ability to adapt to change
- Strong analytical skills
- Extensive knowledgeable of import/export regulations
- Proficient in RapidResponse or other relevant planning systems
- Proven stakeholder management skills (including influencing, communication negotiating and conflict management)
- Experience in a geographically diverse, matrix organization is desirable