EU Demand Planner

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION

Reporting to the EU Demand Planning Manager as a Demand Planner you will be responsible for building the detailed demand forecasting and inventory planning process for multiple sites / SKUs within the Thermo Fisher Scientific European distribution network.

Working with an extensive portfolio of SKUs the Planner will assist in converting high level Supply Chain Planning objectives (Inventory holding, Service, Excess & Obsolete, etc) in to executable and maintainable system configuration settings and standardised processes.

Working as part of a team in this role you are accountable for the analysis of the performance for your portfolio! This will require you to take ownership for the Route Cause and Countermeasure reporting and any actions required to enhance performance. You will also contribute to the development of reporting and presenting to the wider business stakeholders.

What you will do:

• See to it that daily/weekly/monthly/periodical jobs are run, for example making sure items are classified accurately into appropriate Segmentation/differential Inventory control groups to allow for optimized Inventory management
• Review & maintain forecast into the planning system and route cause items with poor forecast accuracy to overall target an improvement of product availability
• Develop robust improvement plans with supplier to improve flow of product supply including accuracy of lead time, to have the best aligned manufacturing strategy to meet Fisher expectations and finally to manage any supply challenges. For this purpose, you will participate to supplier monthly meetings
• Maintain and improve stock availability and inventory rotation through a proactive management of appropriate key forecast and inventory planning parameters. Multiple KPI will be available for you to measure the performance and help you to maximize the customer experience while minimizing risk of excess or obsolescence products
• Be in contact with our Portfolio team to amend our stocking policy by managing New Product introduction and new stocked items in our different hubs in Europe. This includes the monthly review of the AddStock/Destock process. You may participate as well to the introduction (onboarding) of new suppliers for a supply chain planning point of view
• Time to time, you will have the opportunity to manage new customer contract onboarding corresponding to collect forecast from Sales & set-up the supply chain to meet agreed customer terms including when required signature of specific inventory holding agreement
• Ensure that all base inventory management parameters are accurate and efficient within Logility ERP systems for your items
• Maintain all Inventory management control table parameters within the planning system to ensure process stability and predicted outcome
• Perform routine and ad-hoc detailed analysis and make recommendations to achieve profitability, customer service and desired inventory value
• Through analysis, identify and communicate opportunities for improvement to service and inventory
• Efficiently handle reporting and implementation of operational tasks
• Be the reference point for the team in the Planning process definition (implementation, standardization, improvement and documentation)
• Design, build, and deploy computer-based decision support tools, analysis, reports and models to improve the efficiency of supply chain functions
• Work cross functionally and across sites to support inventory planning, forecasting, procurement, transportation, distribution operations, customer service, manufacturing and international functions
• Provide strong detailed insight and analysis of ideal network stocking locations (by supplier/product)
• Help write and maintain work instructions and SOP's
• Work to proactively resolve planning issues

REQUIREMENTS

• Knowledge of Excel, PC, server and ERP systems familiarity
• Experience working with forecasting models and demand planning processes in a FMCG, multi-location distribution environment
• Experience working with Logility planning system might be a differentiator
• Comprehensive understanding and experience of inventory, purchasing and supplier management activity
• Strong analytical skills
• Multi-tasking experience and flexibility to address immediate priorities
• Metrics focused with a root cause, permanent fix approach, continuous improvement approach and self-motivation
• Proficient in Business and Technical English