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 organisation, based in Anvers Belgium.

The Company

They are a pharmaceutical company who is constantly improving their ways to serve their clients more effectively.

Role Description

As the Demand Planner you are responsible for making statistical forecasts and other tasks include;
-Taking care of an evaluation of sales, customer framework contracts, marketing campaigns.
-Reach a consensus about the predictions by facilitating an automated planning process with sales, product marketing.

Responsibilities

-You give input to volume planning (latest estimates / number of process.
-You are responsible for the maintenance of the demand planning system and the software.
-Process data and check for the correctness of the product hierarchy.
-Monitoring trends in demand / forecast error.
-Relevant market-related data and competitive information identification.
-Manage the two-weekly prediction analyzes, and actively participate in the S & OP process.
-Collaborations with colleagues responsible of MPS and MRP.
-Shared responsibility for inventory management as a business process.

Requirements

-Bachelor's degree, preferably supplemented with APICS or other demand planning Certificate, or equivalent through experience.
-At least 5 years experience in a supply and / or demand planning environment within a company with sales and production.
-Competent in statistics, prognoses and demand / forecasting methods with insight into their financial and operational effects.
-Knowledge of Navision and Demand Planning software is a plus.
-Experienced with other software packages, including Windows and Microsoft Office.
-Strong analytical, organizational and presentation skills.
-Decisive and have good facilitation skills.