Demand Planner

3 days ago

Austin, Texas, United States Abbott Full time
Job Description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Demand Planner to join our Cardiac Rhythm Management division in Austin, TX. As a Demand Planner, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and issue finished goods forecasts, partnering with marketing, supply chain management, supply planning, purchasing, finance, program management, regulatory, research and development, and clinical teams.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and issue finished goods forecasts, incorporating business drivers and partnering with cross-functional teams.
  • Lead consensus meetings to ensure key stakeholders provide feedback and updates that could influence finished goods demands.
  • Partner closely with Marketing, Finance, and Commercial to drive optimal short and long-term demand plans to achieve financial and operations targets.
  • Create and incorporate cross-functional business assumptions to develop an accurate forecast plan.
  • Apply analytical techniques and leverage statistical modeling to develop unbiased demand forecasts that enable the right product supply in support of the company's financial and operational objectives.
  • Perform statistical data analysis to identify relations, patterns, and features that predict forecasting trends and performance metrics projections.
  • Design solutions to adjust to demand-based finished goods inventory changes, including field consigned inventory.
  • Track forecast key performance indicators (KPIs) and continually develop plans to improve results.
  • Analyze and review shipment history, inventory trends, and sales performance to proactively identify issues and introduce forecast changes, improving accuracy and contributing to line fill rate success.
  • Prepare S&OP template for S&OP management review and be ready to justify actions.
  • Develop new product launch plans (including phase-ins and phase-outs) with input and collaboration from selling divisions, production, marketing, R&D, and regulatory; work with the Supply Chain Manager for production plan.
  • Review criteria for new product numbers (ZFIN) requests, create new ZFIN setup, sets up and maintain master data, apply safety stocks, and add forecast into SAP.
  • Analyze the following consistently to review accuracy, identify trends, capture issues, developing corrective action plans based on findings: actual shipments versus the net required forecast plan, finished good actual results versus the forecast, actual sales versus the forecast, actual sales versus the financial commitment / budget (LBE).
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
  • Minimum 3 years Forecasting and/or supply chain planning and management, financial experience.
  • Understanding of Demand Planning and Forecasting methodology as well S&O process.
  • Experience with forecasting application software - SAP/APO preferred.
  • Understanding of Supply Chain planning process and relationship with demand planning.
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to identify and concisely communicate the business implications of forecasts and actual results.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and adaptability to different culture and communication styles as this role interfaces across countries all over the world.
Preferred Skills
  • Interpersonal and Professional Skills: Strategic and tactical communication and problem-solving with a hands-on approach.
  • Excellent listening skills to understand problem statements from our internal key stakeholders.
  • Strong leadership and consensus management skills.
  • Critical thinking skills are required to analyze and interpret large volumes of data to develop fact-based business assumptions to influence consensus through effective communication.
  • Interpretive ability to translate assumptions into tangible numbers/volumes and vice versa.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills to identify the root cause of a problem and create corrective action plans.
  • Highly detail-oriented.
  • Change management and emotional intelligence skills to work through process and system changes in an organization.
  • Ability to give senior leadership compelling and persuasive speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics.
  • Computer Skills: Microsoft Office intermediate skills in Excel - Pivot tables, VLOOKUP's, intermediate formulas like standard deviation and forecasting.
  • Microsoft Office basic skills - PowerPoint.
  • Previous experience in an ERP environment - JDE Enterprise One ideal.
  • Previous experience in Business Intelligence Tools - Reports and Dashboards.
  • Previous experience in an Advanced Planning and/or a Demand Planning System is a plus.

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