AddressThis is where you save and sustain lives
At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.
Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.
Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.
Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.
About Baxter
Baxter provides a broad portfolio of essential Renal and Hospital products, including home, acute and in-centre dialysis; sterile IV solutions; infusion systems and devices; parenteral nutrition; surgery products and anaesthetics; and pharmacy automation, software and services.
The company’s global footprint and the critical nature of its products and services play a key role in expanding access to healthcare in emerging and developed countries. Baxter’s employees worldwide are building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the next generation of healthcare innovations that enable patient care.
The Role
We have an exciting opportunity that has arisen for a dynamic Market Planner to join our Renal business responsible for managing inventory at country level. In this role you will be working across MPs monitoring, mitigating supply exceptions while leading and driving communications between the commercial team, customer support, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Network Planners, and fulfillment teams on gaps between inventory and customer demand especially within import markets.
Reporting to the ANZ Market Planning Manager, this role encompasses a high level of risk management and order management accountabilities, with a view to mitigating short and medium-term supply and inventory issues and determining strategy for effective communication with the commercial team.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and own the inventory plan and execution for the market
Drive for inventory optimization opportunity analysis and deployment
Analyze and report inventory variances
Own the communication strategy to the commercial team for supply issues
Lead commercial meetings to review pipelines and manage country fulfillment
Communicate any required parameter changes for cluster/country (e.g. lead time (F), safety stock (MP), freq. (F).
Communicate with NP’s and commercial and other stakeholders to make any mid-cycle MPS adjustments, DRP parameters and proactively resolve supply issues
Understand, resolve, communicate, escalate low cover products
Manage back-order risks with Supply Planner and communicate to commercial teams
Lead the strategic stock build planning for the market driven by import license registration, M&A, supply issue, etc.
Generate different scenarios influencing multiple stakeholders to ensure informed decisions.
Develop and own the inventory plan and execution for the market.
Order management including monitoring inbound POs, and work with Supply Planner, global logistics and transportation, shipping site, global carriers and foreign trade to find resolution to short term supply issues
Monitor customer limits and rebalance product allocation, when needed in cooperation with marketing partners
Provide country or market-level feedback to Network Planner and Supply (Network) Manager
Manage new product launches and product phase outs within the market
Update of JDE sourcing to direct DP forecast to the correct BP (site) subject to geographies and local processes/ownership
Build and maintain reports for commercial team including transfer orders and customer-specific reports. Provide information on any system/planning parameter changes for their cluster.
Confirm transfer orders for products imported to their country/cluster
Make decisions and approve all Supply issue resolution for imported products
Complete monthly reserve proposal, identify and communicate opportunities for discard avoidance.
Key Requirements of the role include:
Tertiary degree in Logistics/Supply Chain Management or related fields
5 -7 years related experience in supply chain management - warehousing, distribution, logistics, transportation, customer service or and inventory planning is required
Detailed working knowledge of effective Supply Chain performance, including Operations management is highly desirable
Significant experience of prioritization and ability to adapt to change
Strong analytical skills
Extensive knowledgeable of import/export regulations
Proficient in RapidResponse or other relevant planning systems
Proven stakeholder management skills (including influencing, communication negotiating and conflict management)
Experience in a geographically diverse, matrix organization is desirable
Basic Project management skill and lean/continuous improvement
Customer focused and a service mindset.
Why Baxter?
At Baxter ANZ, we are focused on being a Best Place to Work where our people can be their authentic self, feel valued and respected. We are committed to a culture where all employees can collaborate and work together effectively.
Relationships are a key component in how we operate in Baxter and we share the common traits of being reliable, ethical, caring, having empathy, actively listening to our colleagues as well as being open minded to new ideas and perspectives. Baxter is an organisation that makes inclusion and diversity a priority and that seeks to promote and improve gender equality in the workplace.
We are proud to be recognised among the top 120 companies for the seventh consecutive year as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality for delivering support structures for working families; stronger actions to address pay inequalities; and strategic recruitment and promotion practices that help to encourage the full participation of women at work. We are also pleased to be the winner of the 2021 & 2019 Women in MedTech Champion Company Award.
Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission.
Reasonable Accommodations
Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please click on the link here and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.
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