SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology organisation, based in Noord-Brabant Netherlands.

The Company

This is an unique opportunity to work for one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies.

Role Description

As Demand Planning Manager you will be focusing on product availability, analyzing and continuous improvement. It is needed to review and understand sales trends and market development in order to have the right forecast on SKU/unit level.

Responsibilities

- Manage weekly and/or monthly meetings with finance commercial team in countries in Europe
- Advise and identify improvements to work with sales affiliates on unit forecasting
- Assemble and manage monthly demand plan
- Understand supply impact of demand changes by doing scenario analysis (safety stock setting, remaining shelf life requirement, phase out constraints, batch sizes, etc)
- Set supply strategy and planning parameters into planning system
- Manage product inventory and minimize scrap exposure
- Advise and support distribution requirements planning (DRP) to ensure replenishment of local stock points is executed appropriately
- Co-operate with global supply chain located in the US
- Collaborate with Site Planning on timely availability of production batches
- Align with Supply Management on demand and supply control measures
- Align with Regional Operations Leads concerning new launches, lifecycle management activities and transitions
- Measure Key Perfomance Indicator and drive continuous improvement

Requirements

- Bachelor / Master in Supply Chain
- +3 years of relevant experience
- Strong knowledge of Excel and similar tools
- Analytical skills
- Stakeholder management
- Pharmaceutical experience (GMP/GDP)
- Kinaxis/Rapid Response experience
- Volatile market experience

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Ivo Huijskens.