Director - Demand Planning

2 weeks ago


Plainsboro, United States Novo Nordisk Full time

**About the Department**

The Finance and Operations dept. brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance and Operations works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

**The Position**

Manage, improve and execute standard processes for the demand planning and inventory fulfilment on an operational, tactical and strategic planning horizon covering the full NAO (US and Canada) product portfolio. This leader works cross-functionally to tailor and execute key planning processes, namely the S&OE (Sales & Operations Execution) and S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) processes to achieve NNI Supply Chain objectives and safeguard supply to patients.

**Relationships**

Reports to the Senior Director, Supply Chain Operations and Demand Planning. This position regularly interacts with NAO Finance Planning & Analysis, NAO Strategic Finance, NAO Brand leadership and HQ (PS Supply Chain in HQ, Production Planners & Site Supply Chain teams (at PS Sites, HQ & GBS), Commercial Portfolio Strategy, RareD Finance & Commercial Excellence).

**Essential Functions**
- Planning process:

- Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP):

- Responsible for demand planning and forecasting process as the base for inventory planning and Product Supply capacity planning
- Ownership of monthly S&OP across NAO
- Manage review of monthly demand fluctuations and GAP analysis
- Execute S&OP local review process (across NAO) resulting in tactical/strategic supply/demand analyses & decisions
- Ensures market demand is properly reflected before it is released to HQ Product Supply organization monthly
- Proactively align supply & demand in the S&OP planning horizon, identify imbalances and collaborate with HQ Product Supply to identify gap closing actions
- Manage and contain supply constrains or risks in cooperation with HQ product supply to secure right allocation of products in accordance with the commercial priorities
- Manage projects to implement improvements to the process
- Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE):

- Ownership of monthly S&OE across NAO
- Monitor and review short term demand fluctuations
- Execute S&OE local review process (across NAO) resulting in operational supply/demand analyses & decisions
- Align supply & demand in the S&OE planning horizon, highlight imbalances and collaborate with HQ Product Supply to identify gap closing actions
- Manage projects to implement improvements to the process
- Planning process performance:

- Monitors, adjusts and develops key performance metrics for planning processes
- Creation and execution of management planning dashboards and analytics
- Inventory and Fulfilment Planning:

- Ownership Finished Goods Inventory Management & Optimization
- Accountable for the Product Supply ensuring adequate inventory of finished goods for trade, patient assistance program (PAP) and sample goods
- Supply and product preparation for launching products
- Sample product operations strategy and re-kitting management
- Inbound goods escalation point
- Compliance reporting:

- Accountable for accurate reporting for TAA Compliance to internal and external stakeholders

**Physical Requirements**

Plainsboro, NJ Home Office based. 10% travel required.

**Development of People**

Ensure that reporting personnel have individual development plans (IDP), with annual goals and measurements that are consistent with the priorities of the business, and that interim reviews are held so that their work is focused on those priorities, and they understand their level of accountability for results and the measurement process.

Ensure that the IDP forms include completed learning and aspiration plans and are in place for all reporting personnel to enable the achievement of goals and capability to assume increased levels of responsibility.

**Qualifications**
- A Bachelor's degree is required, advanced degree is preferred
- Requires a minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible business-related experience, pharmaceutical



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