Demand Planner

**Careers that Change Lives
**Join a global industry leader in innovative medical technology and grow your career As a Demand Planner for Medtronic’s Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) business, you will play a critical role in the development and execution of demand forecasting process to meet customer requirements.

**A Day in the Life
**An internal move has created an exciting opportunity for a Demand Planner Reporting to the ANZ Senior Supply Chain Planning Manager and based in our office in Sydney, the Demand Planner will play an integral role in the ANZ Supply Planning for our various Operating Units. The Demand Planner will work closely with Marketing and Global Planning teams to review sales trends, understand demand drivers, provide input into forecast models and evaluate forecast results with active participation in the Integrated Business Planning process. We are currently in an exciting time as the business is embracing best practice Supply chain principles and this role will be an opportunity to be at the forefront of this.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- In conjunction with the Sales, Marketing and Global Planning teams review demand trends, understand demand drivers, seasonality, provide input into forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
- Challenge Market Intelligence assumptions, provide data driven Insights to increase Forecast Value Add, Forecast Accuracy and Bias.
- Develop and coordinate phase in and phase out (PIPO) plans in collaboration with Marketing and commercial partners to mititage excess and obsolescence risk.
- Facilitate monthly Tactical and Regional Demand Planning Reviews as critical step in the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle to generate a consensus demand plan.
- Maintain Master Data Maintenance in Blue Yonder (BY) including Segmentation.
- Partner cross functionally to analyse demand planning and inventory management processes in order to identify potential improvements
- Communicate and collaborate colosely with Global teams to ensure ANZ’s requirements are clearly understood & met, to ensure smooth, timely supply of product. Driving process excellence including championing the IBP process, continuous improvement and best practice.

**Must Have**:

- Degree in business or formal tertiary qualification in Supply Chain, Operations Management
- At least 3-5 years’ experience in a similar role, with an emphasis on Demand/Supply Chain Planning
- Able to demonstrate a good understanding of Supply Chain Principles
- Able to demonstrate a background in Supply Chain Analysis Experience with advanced supply chain planning systems such as SAP R3, APO SNP

**Our Offer:
**In our 5th Tenet of our Mission, we recognize the personal worth of employees by providing an employment framework that allows personal satisfaction in work accomplished, security, advancement opportunity, and means to share in the company's success.

We believe in rewarding our staff with a complete package of benefits designed to support them at every career and life stage. As a result, our employees have access to the following benefits, to name a few:

- Range of on-demand online health and wellness training resources, apps, videos, and communities
- We invest in professional training and development for employees at all levels.
- Our Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- foster awareness and inclusion in the workplace.
- Various insurance benefits include life and disability, salary continuances, salary sacrifice and Superannuation. We have generous employee referral programs, corporate discount programs, leave benefits, and more

**About Medtronic
**Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend Life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.