Senior Central Demand Manager
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, PL
Are you ready to make the next step in your professional development in a global expanding company? If so, join Novo Nordisk as Senior Central Demand Manager and get a life-changing career! This role is based in Warsaw, Poland or in Istanbul, Turkey and directly reports to the Sr. Director, Demand Planning & S&OP, IO-SO.
The position
As our Senior Central Demand Manager, you will be responsible for building robust demand plans and ensuring all business insights, risks and opportunities are captured in the forecast. To do so, you will need to partner-up with the 7 Regions that account for over 190 markets. In this role, you are expected to contribute to the following areas with the following activities,
Your accountabilities will be:
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Manage the outlier cleansing and history correction process based on the market insights gathered.
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Identify the appropriate demand planning strategy for each SKU – statistical, manual, or patient-based.
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Run statistical forecast based on the models and parameters defined by the OMP system – challenge and adjust the parametrization when required.
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Gather market insights and assumptions to strengthen the statistical forecast and generate a strong and robust commercial forecast.
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Drive performance management as per KPI trends and deep dives and drive a continuous improvement mindset around processes and systems.
You will also have Portfolio of Optimization and Life Cycle Management. You will support the launch process in close collaboration with Commercial and Supply Planning Launch Offices. Support generating forecast for new product introductions (NPIs), in close collaboration with IO Franchises and Finance teams. Support the discontinuation process from a demand planning perspective, when relevant.
Qualifications
To be successful in the role we expect you to have:
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Relevant academic degree with a minimum of 5 years of working experience within supply chain and 3 years of experience in demand planning.
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Experience with working across cultures and hierarchies is highly valued.
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Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is a plus.
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Excellent command over both written and spoken English and have relevant business background.
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Strong analytical skills.
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Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 100 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 55,000 people in 80 countries, and markets its products in more than 190 countries.
Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk we recognise that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and the communities we operate in. We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. We are happy to discuss flexible working, depending on the role and subject to business needs.
Contact
For further information please apply your CV via the online recruitment system.
We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
For any role related questions, please contact the hiring manager directly – Aleix Pastor Garcia, Sr. Director, Demand Planning and S&OP, IO-SO, at +41 79 777 44 41.
Deadline
Please apply before 19th September 2024
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.