Demand Planning Analyst - Johannesburg, South Africa - Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories

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Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Job Title

Demand Planning Analyst(6 Months Contract)

About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people's health. We're always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life.

You will have access to:

Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity
This position works out of our South Africa affiliate in the rapid diagnostics division. In this division our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world's greatest healthcare challenges. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe.

The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

As the Demand planning analyst, you'll have the chance to gathering and consolidating the future demand and needs to understand today's and future business requirements.

The Demand Planning Manager is the process owner for Forecast & Demand Management. This includes defining, implementing and managing these processes on a continual improvement basis over their lifetime.

The objective of this role is to avoid a major discrepancy between the forecasted and the actual (ordered) demand, allowing a reliable (budget) forecast.

The role may also include an Enterprise view of Business Unit demand, whereby the Demand Planning Manager administers and reports on demand for shared services from various Business Units, and may act as gate-keeper to assist in the following areas: - Assist with prioritization and governance issues relating to business unit demand - to avoid duplication and ensure consistency of direction and approach - Work with business units to understand demand, variances, unplanned needs and help with articulation and definition of requirements as needed.

What You'll Do
Demand forecast creation and tracking

Develop country/regional sales forecast by SKU (rolling 12 then 24 months) leveraging simulation / modelling tools
Forecast Accuracy & Obsolescence KPI measures
Include and/or develop demand for Product Lifecycle management (NPI, phase outs). Link point with hand off of new product forecasting to region / countries
Key interface point with demand managers in country and sales /marketing
Lead the transition from short term view to 18month horizon
Working with country demand managers to turn demand plan into sales execution plan Considerations into demand development
Updated assumption drivers (new SKU, discontinuations, supply constraints, marketing assumptions)
Ensure regional volume and financial forecast integration. Key link point with region finance to ensure financial integration / one set of numbers, ensuring alignment to Financial LBEs and ensuring one set of numbers
Manage and update the tender dashboard, accurate with risk/opps

Seasonal Demand Trending

Statistical projections/analysis + Facilitation of "Respiratory Review" meetings

Monitor country/regional demographics, epidemiology, KOLs, and other sources of information to inform demand planning

Seasonal Forecast
Reviews statistical trending and introduces intelligence on latest market/product specific data. Rolling statistical forecast created/updated from the field input, 100% of SKUs (12 then 24 months)

Demand Process Leadership

Lead and prepare the regional then BU Demand Consensus and S&OP Review Meeting align to a one number forecast, identify elevations, gaps and plans.
Issue the S&OP Country/Regional Demand Review Packs.
Tracking of gap closing action items vs plan and expansion benchmarks. Creating a knowledge library of actions / gap closing activities that drive sales lifts
Develop and implement intercompany planning process improvements as needed
Oversee the forecasting process actions, tasks, reports, rollup
Demand Scenario (high/low/opportunity/risk) options sent to Supply for response
Demand management KPIs reviewed (Forecast accuracy, bias) root cause identified and mitigated for out of tolerance.
Consolidate Regional Forecast File and upload into SharePoint/QlikView
Forecasts