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CooperCompanies · 2 days ago

Principal Demand Planner

3 Regent St., Livingston, NJ, 07039, US

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$115K/yr - $150K/yr

5+ years exp

CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women’s healthcare company dedicated to supporting patients throughout their lifetimes. The Principal Demand Planner is responsible for developing a high-quality, unconstrained consensus demand plan, managing demand planning activities, and ensuring alignment of demand signals across various stakeholders.

Medical Device

Responsibilities

Ensures the appropriate process structure, inputs, outputs, reviews, and cadence of demand planning globally to deliver company demand plans on a monthly cycle

Achieves assigned KPI’s which may include forecast accuracy, forecast bias, and line fill performance

Capable of prioritizing work within the portfolio to maximize the impact of efforts with an end goal of reducing cost and/or improving customer satisfaction

Drives engagement and participation of consensus demand review and other S&OP meetings, including consolidation and distribution of presentation materials, key decisions, demand plan publish, meeting notes/action items

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

Qualification

Demand planningSupply chain managementAdvanced planning toolsBusiness forecastingAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsProblem-solvingTeam leadershipAttention to detail

Required

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences

Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities, with direct, applied experience in supply chain

Ability to build strong working relationships with commercial and marketing teams

Understanding of end-to-end planning and supply chain management

Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

5 years+ of relevant supply chain management experience. Specific experience in demand planning or in business forecasting area required, ideally in the Medical Device, Biotechnology, or Pharma industries

2 years+ of experience leading team(s)

Advanced planning tool experience and/or implementation (e.g. O9/ Kinaxis Rapid Response/ APO)

Strong attention to detail, excellent analytical and Excel skills. Ability to create and manage complex models

Minimum: Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management or relevant field

Preferred

Master's degree in business or supply chain management

APICS or similar professional accreditation

Benefits

Medical coverage

401(k)

Parental leave

Fertility benefits

Paid time off for vacation

Personal, sick and holidays

Multiple other perks and benefits

Company

CooperCompanies

CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO) is a leading global medical device company focused on helping people experience life’s beautiful moments through its two business units, CooperVision and CooperSurgical.

Founded in 1958

San Ramon, California, US

10001+ employees