Sr Demand Planner

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, and you’ll be valued and recognized for your performance. With talented managers and inspiring coworkers to support you, you’ll find the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

• Be the trusted authority of the demand forecast i.e. the rolling 24-month detailed plan that leverages history, customer forecast data, industry, and other relevant insights.
• Drives engagement and participation of consensus demand reviews and other SIOP meetings, including consolidation and distribution of presentation materials, key decisions, demand plan publish, meeting notes/action items. Ensure demand planning activities effectively support organizational SIOP.
• Interface and collaborate with key partners in Product Management, Commercial, Finance & Planning to achieve consensus on the monthly forecast submission quantifying and documenting assumptions, risks & opportunities.
• Aligns Product Management and Supply Chain stakeholders to ensure successful new product introduction and phase-out of discontinued products.
• Drives Financial partnership to ensure quality financial forecasts including avg. selling price, mix and margin to ensure monthly financial realization.
• Ensure the appropriate process structure, inputs, outputs, interlocks, and cadence of demand planning activity globally to deliver BU level demand plans on a monthly cycle.
• Conduct forecast error root-cause analysis to drive improvements to metrics including forecast accuracy, bias and FVA.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives through project participation and leadership.
• Key-user of the demand planning system, working with wider users on the implementation of system enhancements. Support associated processes and deputize for Demand Lead as required.
• Partner with Demand Lead in the refinement of other planning tools (BI, analytics) to enable insights and outputs at appropriate hierarchy levels.
• Create and maintain documentation and Standard Operating Procedures for demand forecasting, planning processes and systems.