Demand Planning Specialist

Join our team as a Demand Planning Specialist and play a key role in optimizing our Global Demand Planning process . This position focuses on ensuring the right stock levels and coverage for each SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) across the Primary & Specialty Care Business Unit, with a strong emphasis on the Italian market, as well as the Biotech Business Unit.

Key Responsibilities:

• Elaborates monthly statistical forecast of demand for the Primary & Specialty Care Italy Business Unit using a dedicated tool to provide a baseline to Value & Solution Excellence department for the monthly validation of the operational forecast
• Interfaces with Value & Solution Excellence department to identify main deviations to improve forecast accuracy
• Contributes to develop and update the reporting related to the main Demand Planning KPI’s (Forecast Accuracy, Back-orders, Stock Coverage)
• Collects independent demand (sell-in) from all commercial business units
• Performs the Rolling Demand calculation for each SKU as a requirement both for internal production plant and external suppliers to ensure the required levels of stock and to allow Supply Planning and Procurement departments to set up suitable production & procurement plans
• Supports Line Manager in coordinating the Sales & Operations Planning meeting (scheduling, slide-deck preparation, drafting of minutes)
• Identifies risk of obsolescence based on Sales & Planning root-cause related (e.g. “Exceeding Demand Forecast, Exceeding Supply Coverage, Drop-Out) to be discussed in the Stock Value Risk Management monthly meeting
• He/she is involved in the development of new projects related to the demand planning area (implementation of forecasting tools, reporting, etc.)

Qualifications & Skills:

• Degree in Management/Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science
• At least 3 years’ experience in Demand Planning and Distribution roles are required
• Experience with statistical demand forecasting software
• Knowledge of main Office application, in particular Excel at advanced level (Power Query, Power Pivot, DAX ) and Access at intermediate level
• Intermediate knowledge of Power BI
• Knowledge of SAP (MM, SD & PP modules)
• Basic knowledge of programming languages will be a plus (VBA, Python) will be a plus

Further Requirements:

• Experience in demand modeling
• Analytical skills with experience collecting, processing and analyzing a variety of qualitative and quantitative data sets
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively balance the needs of both commercial and production departments
• Problem-solving attitude, flexibility to adapt to continuous changing requirements and environments
• Will be a plus a previous experience in healthcare industry