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At Baxter, we believe every personâregardless of who they are or where they are fromâdeserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.
Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.
Here, you will find more than just a jobâyou will find purpose and pride.Â
Overall Purpose of the role:
This is anexceptionally unique opportunity to join Baxter Healthcare Corporation's Supply Chain team as a Demand Planner. You will play a pivotal role in defining and supporting materials management, warehousing, and customer services processes for both new and existing business. Your expertise will help drive flawless execution of logistics operations, ensuring that our supply management and vendor interactions are streamlined and efficient. As a key player in New Product Introductions, you will actively contribute to the successful implementation of lean principles, driving efficiencies across the materials area.
Principal Duties/ Responsibilities:
Your role involves accurately processing supply management tasks, supporting warehouse management, monitoring material availability, and addressing exceptions. You will also liaise with logistics and customer service, support NPI and lean initiatives, and maintain/report metrics.
Communication:
Collaborate with other departments and managers to resolve issues, including Customer Service and Logistics.
Maintain regular communication with vendors to ensure flawless operations.
Support internal and external customers and team members regarding issues, advancing them as appropriate.
Provide proactive and informative feedback on supply chain interruptions or situations that affect customer support and satisfaction.
Continually work to improve quality, delivery, and costs through programs that enhance the overall quality of vendors by clearly defining requirements.
Review open requirements, monitor vendor performance, and expedite where necessary.
Assure that problems relating to delivery and quality are promptly conveyed to the vendor and resolved in a timely manner.
Analyse and adjust inventory levels to align with lead time changes in collaboration with the global planning team.
Monitor daily order activity and take appropriate action to ensure supply commitments are met. Update supplier forecasts (internal & external).
Verify orders and communicate requirements to suppliers. Undertake daily reconciliation of receipts with suppliers and ensure timelyresolution of all receiving discrepancies.
Support all activities for the market driven by change controls, import license registration, new product launches, product phase outs, etc. Time will be spent understanding the product set-up, product registration, operation processes, and market demand.
Identify and complete improvement projects looking for inventory levels optimization.
Complete monthly reserve proposal, identify and communicate opportunities for discard avoidance and follow through the opportunities to ensure they are completed.
Person Specification
The ideal candidate should have 3-5yearsofexperience in a similar role. Strong analytical skills, excellent negotiation and communicationskills, and confidence in dealingwith colleagues at all levels and external vendors areessential. The role requires theabilitytomanage multiple concurrent priorities. Adynamic,enthusiastic, and level-headed person is needed for this job. The work environment is dynamic, requiring adaptability,flexibility,prioritization,organization, and time management skills.
Demonstrated interpersonalflexibility and strong team skills.
Strong organizational skills and theabilityto plan and manage your own work effort.
Demonstrated capability to make sound decisions and a track record of prioritizing