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Why join us?

A career at embecta means being part of a team that values your opinions and contributions and that empowers you to bring your authentic self to work.  Here our employees can fulfill their life’s purpose through the work that they do every day.

You will learn and work alongside inspirational leaders and colleagues who are equally passionate and committed to fostering an inclusive, growth-centered, and rewarding culture.  Our Total Rewards program – which includes competitive pay, benefits, continuous learning, recognition, career growth and life balance components – is designed to support the varying needs of our diverse and global employees.

Demand Planning

• Responsible to develop demand forecast through data analytics tools/statistical models which indirectly drive supply & production planning, and directly affecting the availability of inventory to customers. Works with Marketing/ Product Managers, Finance and Global Supply Planners to understand the impact of the forecast, the financial gaps, potential risk and opportunities.

• Driving Product classification in terms of volume & value share, demand volatility and strategic importance which is used to determine differentiated demand, supply and inventory strategy.

• Lead countries demand review and chair monthly S&OP meeting by actively engaging the Marketing and Finance community as key participants in the process.

• Leverage statistical forecasting to improve forecast accuracy.

Supply planning

• Perform weekly supply review and analysis to drive optimization of both supply and inventory planning. Prepare BO, airfreight and revenue risk projection.

• Champion supply issues and influence Global/ Manufacturing decisions regarding capacity, supply and production allocations.

• Lead adhoc manual allocation and/or stockpile process and work with key stakeholders to ensure business priorities are met.

• Drive system solutions, improve planning accuracy & predictability, improve Inbound/outbound service level performance.

• Champion inventory planning for brand transition.

Inventory Management

• Work closely global planning to understand and establish the right stocking level, particularly on new product introductions or product discontinuation projects.

• Regularly review system planning master data and proactively cleanse it to drive optimized planning result

• Project monthly, quarterly and year-end inventory level, analyze performance & establish plans to drive metric improvement to target

• Identify Excess & Obsolete, follow through on disposition and reduction opportunities. Drives root cause analysis and CI to prevent new occurrence.

• Establish planning strategies & inventory policy to meet business objectives and the targeted service levels.

Key Supply Chain Operation Metrics and Business performance management

• Ability to set annual targets, monitors performance and establish plans and strategies to drive metrics improvement to target. Accountable for achieving targeted supply chain metrics: Forecast Accuracy, Line Fill Rate, Back-Order, Inventory Value and Turns

• Identify projects to drive supply chain service level, operational efficiency & cost reduction.

• Support WW and regional Supply Chain key initiatives to accomplish best in class supply chain metrics performance and improve production/distribution efficiencies and customer experience.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of 3 years demand, supply & inventory planning experience required.

• End-to-End Supply Chain experience, understanding of the 5 steps of the S&OP Process

• ERP experiences to include SAP IBP, S4 Hana, power BI or other tools

• Track records of improving customer service level while simultaneously improving supply chain metrics performance and operation cost

• Experience across other supply chain functions such as manufacturing is preferred.

COMPETENCIES:

• Proficient Excel skills, dashboard creation, strong data analytics and statistical skillset.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – ability to work across all functions and levels in the organization and regions; effectively manage multiple stakeholders with different cultural backgrounds

• Interdependent partnering and collaboration with regional and global stakeholders.

• Customer oriented mindset with business acumen and able to leverage on his/her supply chain knowledge to support business to achieve business goal while at the same time improve supply chain metrics

• Good command of written and verbal English language

Functional knowledge & skills

• Understanding of the E2E Supply Chain and the Regional Networks

• Demand, Supply Planning & Analysis, Capable to drill-down for root cause analysis, links to capability to synthesize and translate findings into business language

• System Statistical skill- Skilled and capable in the use of statistical modeling software (SCM) to develop a demand plan

• Customer & Market knowledge

• Driving Sales & Operational Planning meeting

• Strategic Planning/ Network design (SC Modeling & Optimization)

• Enterprise Metrics

EDUCATION:

• A Bachelor’s degree is preferred in supply chain, engineering or business field.

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Certification from a recognized supply chain institution such as APICS or CSCMP is a plus

embecta is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.  We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status.