Demand Planner

SUMMARY:
A multinational pharmaceutical company has a vacancy within their Supply chain department! We are looking for a Demand/Supply Planner to join their team.

POSITION INFO:
POSITION :    DEMAND/SUPPLY PLANNER
AREA         :    EAST RAND, GAUTENG
SALARY     :    MARKET RELATED DEPENDING ON EXP.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
To develop and implement Inventory plans that will enable the organization to meet Sales and Service objectives

SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Completed Matric/Grade 12 
• Completed Relevant Degree in SCM 
• Relevant Post-Graduate qualification is advantageous
• MUST have a minimum 3 years experience at a Demand Planner level.
• MUST have a minimum 3 years experience in Logistics 
• Pharmaceutical/Medical devices or similar industry 
• SAP or equivalent ERP software proficiency required.
• Advanced proficiency at Microsoft Office (Excel)

• Ongoing maintenance of the Forecasting, Purchase Orders and Sales Planning database.

• Extraction, generation and analysis of daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly stock reports from the above database’, to: 
• Assess current stockholding, planned orders, sales history and forecasting of future planned orders.
• Provide real time reporting to the Supply Chain Manager, for global reporting purposes.

• Analyze, assess, calculate and conclude immediate ST and LT planning requirements of individual SKU’s.
• Ongoing liaison with Quality department re: quarantine, short-dated stock, blocked and returned stock, and potential stock releases, so as to optimize working capital and stockholding levels.
• Implementation of finalized demand plan and ongoing liaison with suppliers and other relevant third parties.
• Engage with distributors to stock receiving, stock holding, reworking of stock, and stock write-offs.
• Ongoing liaison with agents, to ensure effective forwarding, shipping, clearing and delivery of stock shipments.

• Drive and facilitate S&OP forum.

• Attend and contribute to NPI forum and collate all necessary information, so as to provide planning analysis to Quality, Sales, Marketing, Regulatory and Finance teams.

• Participation in and contribution to ad hoc Supply Chain optimization projects and initiatives.
• Warehouse & distribution partner management

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