The purpose of this position is to drive a single number mindset by coordinating Demand Planning activities with Commercial, Finance and Supply teams, and to drive initiatives for improvements and process simplification, automation and compliance in areas of Demand Planning and related processes.

Your Responsibilities: This role gives YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, the main ones are:

• Operates the volume forecasting process within the Supply Chain Operating Model supporting the Core Commercial Cycle (CCC) for entire portfolio.
• Responsible for historical data cleansing (liaising with the commercial teams) as input for statistical forecast performed by Demand CoE
• Supports Demand Forecasting Planners (Global Demand CoE) with Market Intelligence for statistical forecast models definition.
• Provide strong business partnering and work across functions (LOC Marketing and Finance Teams) to lead the monthly Pre-DRM & DRM meetings to discuss baseline forecasts volume and agree any forecast adjustments along with their assumptions covering entire portfolio capturing the Unconstrained and constrained Volume.
• Liaise with the commercial and marketing teams to capture comprehensive total volume forecast including New Product Introduction, and Tenders.
• Prepares forecast inputs into the key Core Commercial Cycle (CCC) meetings including Demand Review, feeding through to Supply Review and regional S&OP meetings.
• Accountable for driving performance in demand forecasting KPIs by performing a detailed root cause analysis and working with commercial and finance organizations to take corrective actions.
• Supports the demand lead for strategic global and regional projects that will use demand forecasting as a lever to unlock further benefits in GSK's supply chain including Inventory Reduction, FG write-off reduction, ERP and process enhancements, Supply Chain Transformation etc.
• Promotes a ‘one number’ mindset to drive business decision-making and forecast transparency / functional accountability.
• Ensure system compliance, maintaining the Market Intelligence data and timely release of the forecast volume data to finance/commercial and supply chain teams.
• Work with the Supply chain Process and Capability champion to drive the future improvements and process simplification in Demand Forecasting.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications: We are looking for professionals with these characteristics to achieve our goals:

• University degree in Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Healthcare Sciences or similar
• 6+ years of experience in Demand Planning roles
• Fluent English and Spanish
• Good knowledge of Supply chain disciplines like supply planning, distribution planning, inventory management and procurement .
• Excellent knowledge of excel and power BI expected
• Excellent communications skills (written and verbal) and good stakeholder         management.
• Data Analytics and statistical forecasting knowledge

Preferred Qualifications: However, if you have the following, it would be a plus:

• MBA from reputed institute / APICS Certification
• SAP
• Experience in pharmaceutical industry

If you feel this is your next career move, please apply up to August 15th, 2024.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged, and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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