Network Planner Specialist

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Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your role at Baxter

The Network Planner Specialist is responsible for balancing and optimizing supply planning to meet demand. The Senior Network Planner serves as the link between commercial team (at a country level where the plant sits) and S&OP by collaborating with demand planning, plant leadership, and business units. This includes defining and implementing supply planning process, determining priorities, including creation of MRP for sourcing of materials, DRP, MPS, driving process improvements, and leading supply review.

What you'll be doing

1. Responsible for generating the replenishment requirements utilizing the demand signal, on-hand inventory and inventory targets that deliver a comprehensive network supply plan across the supply chain organization, to meet all financial requirements, operational capabilities, and wholesalers service objectives for assigned Business Unit.

2. Undertaking advanced analytics and driving process improvements managing a large complex product portfolio.

3. Facilitates exception-based planning to maintain targeted inventory levels, prevent stock-outs and balance financial impacts.

4. Responsible for setting monthly inventory strategy for BU thru management of Inventory Optimization tool optimal inventory targets at various locations in the supply chains to achieve the service objectives with minimum working capital investment.

5. The Network Planner Specialist is empowered to make changes to the network supply plan when deemed necessary over the planning horizon. Changes are to be governed through sales and operations execution (S&OE) and planning (S&OP) process. • Collaborates and proactively communicates to drive a consensus approach to provide replenishment plans and exception-based reporting for assigned BU. Makes recommendations on actions needed to meet actual and forecasted demand.

What you'll bring

1. B.A./B.S. Supply Chain, Operations or a business-related field
2. Minimum of 5 years’ experience in supply chain planning, including specific experience in identifying planning process improvements, training and coaching team members/colleagues.

3. Experience in an end-to-end supply chain role, including experience in S&OP process development and systems, experience in production planning, supply chain planning, or logistics

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