Demand Planner

Our client is seeking a Demand Planner to join their organisation based in Toongabbie on a 12-month fixed term contract.

Our client is seeking a Demand Planner to join their organisation based in Toongabbie on a 12-month fixed term contract. This role sits within a busy supply chain team who pride themselves on their strong company culture and their high level of service that they provide to customers within the medical industry. You will report directly to the ANZ Planning Manager.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing inventory at country or cluster level. Demand planner will also be monitoring and mitigating supply exceptions at country-level and lead and drive communications between the commercial team, customer support, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Network Planners, and fulfillment teams regarding gaps between inventory and customer demand especially in import markets.

**Your responsibilities include but aren't limited to**:

- Develop and own the inventory plan and execution for the market. Drive for 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). Communicate with NP's and commercial and other stakeholders 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 (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 own the inventory plan and execution for the market. Drive for inventory optimization opportunity analysis and deployment. Analyze and report inventory variance being the accountable owner.
- 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.

**Essential Requirements**:

- Supply planner or demand supply with 5 years exp
- Must have experience with system processes from scratch
- Must have CRM/ERP system experience
- Must be able to engage with stakeholders across the business

**HOW TO APPLY**:
If you would like a confidential chat please reach out to Kylie Williamson - 0400 854 228

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