Supply Chain Planner

Supply Chain PLanner

**Location**: Zug

**Duration**: 12 months contract role

**Hours**: 40 hours, hybrid

**Requirements**:SAP S4, Demand Planning & supply chain experience, pharmaceutical or medtec background

**The department**:
The Central EMEA Supply Chain Planner is handling: demand planning, IBP, inventory management, service management (STEM, allocation) and replenishment management in alignment with country and global partners and the company strategy.

**The role**:
Commercial/Finance teams to ensure alignment to global/regional and country business goals and objectives. Ensure compliance with the Quality Management System.

**roles and responsibilities**
- Drive business adoption and support implementation of SAP S4 Hana Demand Planning & Lifecycle Management
- Provide statistical forecast input for platform/region/cluster/country demand planning process and handle business forecasts over 24-month horizon for strategic and manufacturing/capacity planning.
- Build and maintain product volume and mix forecasts using historical data, statistical models, and market intelligence.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to collect, analyze, and report key data, enhancing decision-making and bridging gaps in revenue, profitability, and cash conversion vs. the business plan.
- Load, maintain, and ensure forecast integrity in E2E Planning Systems.
- Participate in New Product Introduction (NPI), LCM and portfolio optimization processes, aligning demand plans to the portfolio strategy for both NPI and LCM and leading Phase in Phase Out (PIPO) changes at SKU level, communicating changes to all partners
- Collaborate with Data Governance to ensure relevant master data is created and obsoleted in regional systems at the right time.

IBP and Financial Integration
- Analyze consolidated data for local demand review (DR) meetings, regional IBP and executive IBP, demand handover (DHO) reviews, and integrated reconciliation, including creating and consolidating presentation materials, preparing agendas, tracking action execution and maintaining Risk&Opportunity trackers.
- Ensure alignment between global, regional, and country/cluster IBP touchpoints, including demand handover processes.
- Identify and address gaps between demand and financial plans, driving reconciliation actions.

Inventory Management
- Supervise regional inventory initiatives, including inventory entitlement coordination (including safety stock), planning parameter maintenance, SLOB monitoring and reduction actions, Inventory projections and IBP integration.
- Track and support key metrics, including gross/net inventory value, Days of Supply (DOS), and SLOB inventory.
- Manage inventory levels across the region, ensuring alignment with cash flow targets.
- Implement Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) releases between regional hubs and local distribution centers.
- Lead returns process from regional to global hubs. Service
- Coordinate with Global Plan for timely product availability/service levels in the countries, Supply Feedback Loop (SFL) as the exception Supply Commit Process.
- Ensure business continuity by managing the supply disruptions and demand surges by ensuring timely escalation for significant supply disruptions.
- Coordinate event management of both demand and supply events (STEM) between global, regional and local partners and ensure timely communication of service disrumptions.
- Improve OTIF performance and minimize backorder value (BO) through root cause analysis and corrective action planning.
- Communicate supply issues, root causes, corrective actions, and recovery timelines to commercial and supply chain partners.
- Collaborate with marketing/sales to resolve customer allocation decisions based
- on demand, supply, and customer prioritization strategies and ensure perfect
- execution of demand management.

Analytics & Process Improvement
- Measure and supervise the forecast accuracy (MAPE, BIAS) at different levels and initiate strategies and actions to continuously improve forecast accuracy, reduce errors, and optimize customer service and inventory metrics.
- Support efforts to improve Integrated Business Planning (IBP) maturity.
- Proactively recommend and implement process and system improvements.
- Drive intelligent automation to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Improve inventory management policies, standards, technology, and procedures.
- Represent team on projects as assigned.
- Propose initiatives for continuous improvement.

**how to succeed**

Job Qualifications:

- We are seeking a highly analytical and proactive individual with strong communication and collaboration skills to join our team as a Supply Chain Analyst.
- Results & Performance Driven: Must be highly motivated self-starter and confident to independently work in a remote team.
- Analyze & Manage Data: Use advanced analytical skills to interpret large datasets with accuracy and attention to detail. Experience with scenario planning and s