Cardinal Health · 16 hours ago
Advisor, Supply Chain Planning (Specialty Solutions)
Dublin, OH
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$68K/yr - $96K/yr
3+ years expCardinal Health is a leading healthcare services and products company, and they are seeking a Demand Planning Advisor within their Pharmaceutical Division. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to create and deliver consensus demand plans while improving forecasting tools and processes to enhance accuracy and support long-term sales strategies.
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Responsibilities
Leverage internal demand planning system, creating short-term and long-term demand forecast plans, and lead cross-functional meetings to drive demand consensus
As part of Integrated Business Planning, review historical sales trends, research demand drivers and validate demand inputs to enhance forecast derived from off-the-shelf forecast models and evaluate forecast results for different categories
Work closely with category owners to understand business growth strategy, reconcile significant forecast variances and refine forecast model inputs to reflect updated sales and marketing strategies, and improve forecast accuracy across different categories
Support ongoing process improvements and automation of demand planning tools to reduce manual data aggregation and increase visibility to the forecast analysis
Partner closely with customers and sales team, and IQVIA to leverage customers’ data/IQVIA data to improve forecast accuracy
Communicate ideas concisely to a wide variety of stakeholders for purposes ranging from informative to financial approval from executives
Provide support with data analytics, root cause analysis, and problem resolution of inventory concerns or issues
Support MSO (Managed Service Organization) teams and sales team to identify opportunities and/or risks as part of collaborative planning
Responsible for identifying and mitigating future service level disruptions
Ad-hoc analytics related to inventory management business objectives
Qualification
Required
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Must be a self-starter with strong strategic influence
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, industrial engineering, operations research or equivalent work experience, preferred; Master's degree a plus
3+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning roles preferred
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) Planner experience a plus
Proficient in Advanced Microsoft Excel preferred, SQL/Tableau a plus
Experience building/maintaining statistical forecast models preferred
APICS certifications and SAP/Planning system (Manhattan, Kinaxis etc.) experience, preferred
Experience in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) preferred
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision coverage
Paid time off plan
Health savings account (HSA)
401k savings plan
Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
Short- and long-term disability coverage
Work-Life resources
Paid parental leave
Healthy lifestyle programs
Company
Cardinal Health
Cardinal Health is a manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.08B2025-08-28Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2006-08-16Post Ipo Debt· $78M
1983-08-12IPO
Leadership Team
Aaron Alt
Chief Financial Officer
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Tony Caprio
Executive Vice President
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