Market Planner

Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

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 handling 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 collaborators to make any mid-cycle MPS adjustments, DRP parameters and proactively resolve supply issues

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 customers 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 agreement 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

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. 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 resolutions 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

Basic Project management skill and lean/continuous improvement

Customer-focused and a service attitude.

Why Baxter?

At Baxter ANZ, we are focused on being a Best Place to Work where our people can be their authentic self, feel valued and respected. We are committed to a culture where all employees can collaborate and work together effectively. 

Relationships are a key component in how we operate in Baxter and we share the common traits of being reliable, ethical, caring, having empathy, actively listening to our colleagues as well as being open minded to new insights and perspectives. Baxter is an organisation that makes inclusion and diversity a priority and that seeks to promote and improve gender equality in the workplace.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission.

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