Senior Analyst, Demand Planning

Description

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

The Senior Analyst, Demand Planning acts as a Solution Owner for all analytics and reporting tasks within the Demand Planning team. The incumbent will be responsible for supporting the Demand Planning team with analytics, planning, reporting, and ad hoc requests. This role will be responsible for data analytics, lead weekly/monthly reporting, and will act as a backup Demand Planner, if needed.

The Senior Analyst, Demand Planning will be responsible for drive process improvement by engaging with the team, proposing, driving ideas and projects. This role will be responsible for driving Global Supply Chain processes such as SLCI (System of Launches & Changes) and PLM (Product Live-Cycle Manager).

Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintains and publishes Inventory at Risk report (monthly and as needed).
• Identifies key drivers for Inventory at risk by short date and expiry to drive mitigating actions with Species to reduce the risk.
• A big portion and important task of the role is to ensure life cycle management activities for all products and species. For that the role acts as PLM (Product Life-cycle Manager role.
• Works closely with the demand planners.
• Responsibilities include pro-active (pre-)launch, change/ transfer and keep/ withdrawal/ divest activities and therewith end-to-end stewardship for ensuring the active SKU portfolio is in shape.
• Acts as primary contact to structure required activities of ongoing local and global prune/divest projects.
• Ensures that the S&OP/ Product Review related deliverables are met.

Conducts weekly review and maintain/publish both local and global Stock Out reports and Supply Impact Reconciliation reports:

• Leads weekly meetings between Demand Planning and Supply Planning to establish root cause, back-order amounts, and estimated replenishment dates and volumes 
• Responsible for completing Global Stock Out report monthly before deadlines
• Determines lost sales vs. Budget driven by supply and enter global Supply Impact Reconciliation report monthly

Leads global Complaint Resolution process across all Species:

• Leads resolution process to create and finalize submissions.
• Updates MS Teams database for complaints.
• Enters complaints in BIX@.

Follows up with Global LIM team Responsible to work on Process Improvement/Project Management:

• Drives continuously process improvement with Team members establish higher customer satisfaction and improved efficiency.
• Develops and owns tools and metrics improve overall efficiency.
• As a project lead, drives the development and execution of improvement plans, working cross-functionally to achieve and sustain measurable results.

Acts as lead SOLCI (System Officer for Launch and Change Implementation) for SLCI (System of Launches & Changes). Lead SOLCI is a key user and an essential communication node between the user community and the group of people managing the operation of SLCI:

• for the execution of the business process Launch and Change Implementation in compliance with external and internal regulations based on their training and different KPIs.
• that SLCI applications are executed with high efficiency avoiding idle times or unnecessary repetitions.
• that the workflows and work items are executed as intended and in case of delays corrective and preventive measures are initiated (performance indicators).

Requirements

• Bachelor degree or equivalent required: business administration or economics - specialization in supply chain management; MSc / MBA of advantage.
• At least five (5) years of working experience in SCM, preferably within demand/replenishment planning, commercial SCM in pharmaceutical/OTC/FMCG industries.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Advanced experience with MS. Excel/PowerPoint/Word/PowerBI.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to clearly and concisely communicate ideas, facts, and technical information to management and other internal customers both verbally and written.
• Demonstrated understanding and ability to apply supply chain principles, concepts, practices, and standards including knowledge and use of Animal Health data and basic working knowledge of industry practices.
• Demonstrated excellent communication and presentation skills and ability to work with other disciplines.
• Ability to train user groups and key stakeholders.
• Experience with developing and maintaining PowerBI dashboards and reports.
• Experience with Demand Forecasting and Net Requirements Planning preferred.
• Experience with SAP preferred.
• Certification: APICS - CSCP or CPIM (considered as a plus).

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
• Must be 18 years of age or older.