Senior Demand Planner

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

The Senior Demand Planner is responsible for analyzing demand patterns, assessing forecast trends, interpreting and actioning key performance indicators, and adjusting statistical forecasting model parameters to generate a rolling 28 months forecast. This role monitors forecast error and bias and ensures that statistical forecasting models are updated in a timely manner based on the aligned strategy between commercial, finance, and operations teams. The Senior Demand Planner supports the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process and is responsible for understanding and communicating how different statistical forecast models and model parameters affect demand variability.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze demands, assess forecast trends, and evaluate forecast error and bias at a Demand Forecasting Unit (DFU) level
• Provide statistical forecasting models and/or Supply Chain demand recommendations to affiliate finance
• Support Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process
• Develop and maintain comments/drivers for any Demand Forecasting Unit (DFU) exceeding established targets
• Liaise with Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain Brand Teams, and Operations to align statistical forecasts with trends and approved product strategy
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives for S&OP, Demand Management, and Statistical forecasting processes
• Support Product Life Cycle Management strategies as it relates to future forecasts
• Participate in demand review meetings and document changes to demand forecasts to ensure traceability and accountability

Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering or Science
• 5 or more years of experience in Operations, Supply Chain Management, and/or Financial Management
• Experienced with formal Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes and system experience across JDA (Blue Yonder), PowerBI, and QlikSense
• Proven experience in fostering collaboration across organizational boundaries
• Excellent organizational, written, and oral communication English skills are required
• Proven ability to possess strong problem solving, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Results & process oriented, focusing on process improvements to drive higher levels of performance
• Significant cross-functional leadership capabilities – ability to lead, collaborate and influence without authority; uses informal structure, dynamics, and culture to get things done
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills are required
• Hybrid working model