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The Zone Commercial Planning Specialist will develop zone-level demand forecasts, collaborate with sales, marketing, and service teams to gather inputs, and drive improvements in forecast accuracy. This role will act as a single point of contact for the zone on all demand planning inputs and ensure effective communication with cross-functional teams.
Your role:
·Demand Forecasting and Accuracy: Develop zone-level demand forecasts for instruments, reagents, and consumables. Drive improvements in forecast accuracy.
·Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with sales, marketing, and service teams to gather inputs and validate customer demand. Work with distributors and customers as needed.
·Market Intelligence and Impact Assessment: Gather market intelligence and customer insights from sales and marketing teams. Assess the impact of market changes or forecast variances and recommend revisions.
·KPI Monitoring: Monitor relevant KPIs, comparing actual shipment vs. country inputs. Prepare and distribute regular reports on key performance indicators, demand forecasts, and inventory levels.
·Central Point of Contact: Act as a single point of contact for the zone on all demand planning inputs. Ensure effective communication with cross-functional teams to align on demand planning strategies.
·Process Improvement: Drive process improvements within the demand planning function. Proactively identify opportunities for enhancement and best practices.
·Tool Utilization: Ensure process steps and tool utilization are executed across the zone, leveraging appropriate tools for inputs (e.g., Kinaxis, CRM tools).
·Decision Support: Facilitate and enable decision-making for Zone Business Lead and Zone Finance Lead on forecasting topics.
·Risk Management: Assess business exposures and potential risk scenarios. Provide consulting for demand planning insights to stakeholders.
·Communication: Help articulate and communicate demand uncertainties and risks. Develop options for optimizing inventory, replenishment, and demand plans to supply planning.
·Collaborate with global and local teams to holistically improve the customer experience and satisfaction levels around supply.
Your expertise:
Who we are:
We are a team of more than 71,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.
How we work:
When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from individuals with disabilities.
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