Sr Dir, Global Planning, Spine​/Sports

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Supply Chain Planning

End-to-End Planning

People Leader

Neuchâtel, Neuchatel, Switzerland, Zuchwil, Switzerland

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The Global Planning Leader will lead the Global Planning function for Spine, Sports and Cranio-Maxillofacial (CMF) Platforms within DePuy Synthes. Together, these platforms drive annual sales of about $2.2B. The Leader will be responsible for driving the Supply Planning Process globally with a strong Customer-First focus, ensuring that customer service objectives are being met while meeting cost and inventory cash flow targets for the platform.

The role will report into the Vice President of Global Supply Chain Planning for DPS and partner closely with the Leader of Spine/Sports/CMF Supply Chain to support the delivery of the End-to-End (E2E) Platform strategy, its New Product Introductions, and day-to-day execution of supply chain activities.

In order to deliver the objectives of the role, this Leader will be responsible for building a leading-edge planning capability for the Spine, Sports and Cranio-Maxillofacial (CMF) Platforms, in line with the Supply Chain Planning strategy for DPS. Critical to building these new capabilities will be maturing foundational capabilities in the core planning systems and ERP systems and evolving the planning process from a functional focus to an end-to-end value stream focus with an accelerated evolution towards advanced analytics and autonomous planning capabilities.

This leader will lead a team of about 18 staff. A key area of accountability will be to ensure that this team reflects the talent and capabilities required to deliver the overall objectives for the Planning function and Spine/Sports/CMF platforms.

• The design, operation and continued improvement of the Global Planning process for Spine/Sports/CMF.
• Validating Net Requirements from the markets and identifying short to medium-term constraints. Critical to this activity is the projection and tracking of set demand and ensuring a set-level net requirements plan, as appropriate for the platform.
• Owning the Global IBP process execution for Spine/Sports/CMF and ensuring – in partnership with the E2E Platform Leader – that key decisions required from the process are being provided to support Supply Chain decision‑making.
• Owning the E2E execution of the Supply Planning Process so that product is available at the right place, in the right quantities and at the right time to service our customers. Working closely with strategic manufacturing partners and external suppliers to ensure that their supply plans align with our requirements.
• Continual development of the team to meet the demands of a modern supply chain while growing the capabilities of individual members.
• Owning and monitoring key supply chain plan‑related performance metrics including:
  • Service: OTIF‑Delivered, Backorder value.
  • Inventory: value and…