Senior Network Planner

This 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.

An exiting permanent opportunity to join our planning team as a Senior Network Planner has become available. As a Senior Network Planner your main responsibility will be to balance and optimize supply planning to meet demand.

Reporting to Planning and Demand Manager you will serve as the link between commercial team (at a country level where the plant sits) and S&OP by collaborating with demand planning, plant leadership, and business units.

• Responsible for generating the replenishment requirements utilizing the demand signal, on-hand inventory and inventory targets that deliver a comprehensive network supply plan across the supply chain organization, to meet all financial requirements, operational capabilities, and wholesalers service objectives for assigned Business Unit.

• Undertaking advanced analytics and driving process improvements managing a large complex product portfolio.

• Facilitates exception-based planning to maintain targeted inventory levels, prevent stock-outs and balance financial impacts

• Responsible for setting monthly inventory strategy for BU thru management of Inventory Optimization tool optimal inventory targets at various locations in the supply chains to achieve the service objectives with minimum working capital investment.

• The Senior Network Planner is empowered to make changes to the network supply plan when deemed necessary.

• Collaborates and proactively communicates to drive a consensus approach to provide replenishment plans and exception-based reporting for assigned BU.

• Responsible for independently managing new product introductions and product conversions.

• Reports Key Performance Indicators for their given Business Unit complete with process improvement initiatives and prioritizes tasks and deliverables in a timeline intense environment.

• Supports the Planning Manager to drive continuous improvement efforts to improve performance on all key metrics, including service targets and network inventory levels.

• Facilitating / delivering training and undertaking coaching.

• B.A./B.S. Supply Chain, Operations or a business-related field

• Extensive experience in an end-to-end supply chain role, including experience in S&OP process development and systems, experience in production planning, supply chain planning, or logistics

• APICS certification a plus

• Must be proficient in data gathering and quantitative and qualitative data analysis, including business process metrics and measures linking to business KPIs

• Strong mathematical and analytical skills including experience with statistical analysis and data modeling

• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office applications, Excel and PowerPoint a must

• Ability to work with all levels and functions within the Company, and with external business partners

• Self-directed and possess a sense of urgency and meets deadlines and work under pressure, with limited supervision

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.

Situated in Western Sydney, and featuring and onsite cafeteria and café, gym, we offer a dynamic and future focused work environment offering workplace flexibility, development & career growth, volunteering leave, 12 weeks parental leave, income protection insurance and a strong value driven culture focused on diversity, equality, and inclusion.

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