Leader, Demand & Supply Chain Planning
BD
Summary
The Leader, Demand & Supply Chain Planning has primary responsibility for supply chain activities across assigned platforms and product lines to achieve business objectives, meet customer service goals, and optimize inventory. The role serves as a trusted subject matter expert and primary resource for team members, providing guidance, coaching, and support on complex planning matters. This position leads cross-functional projects and advanced supply chain planning activities, including proactive risk mitigation, supply execution oversight, forecasting, capacity planning, scenario analysis, and performance monitoring and reporting.
Job description
Essential / Key Job Responsibilities
- Serve as a go-to planning expert, providing team members with guidance and support on complex issues.
- Lead cross-functional supply chain projects from planning through execution, ensuring alignment, ownership, and results.
- Align global supply, operational, market, and financial requirements with manufacturing capabilities.
- Lead customer service communications for assigned product portfolios.
- Monitor production attainment and proactively communicate supply constraints and risks.
- Monitor capacity and partner cross-functionally to resolve constraints.
- Partner with demand planners to mitigate customer service, inventory, and cost risks.
- Develop global inventory allocation and production prioritization strategies.
- Lead backorder reporting, root-cause analysis, mitigation, and team updates.
- Define, recommend, and maintain safety stock targets.
- Provide finished-goods availability dates to Commercial teams.
- Analyze inventory performance, depletion, targets, and excess and obsolete risk.
- Plan inventory allocation for global regulatory builds.
- Support SKU rationalization, RECODE, and product lifecycle initiatives.
- Manage product phase-outs to minimize obsolete inventory.
- Lead supply planning for new product launches, including stocking strategy requirements.
- Perform advanced analysis for issue resolution, scenario planning, and financial evaluation.
- Query and interpret data to support decisions.
- Provide insights to Business Unit leadership and support annual business planning.
- Prepare executive-level presentations.
- Ensure compliance with applicable health, safety, environmental, and company requirements; perform other assigned duties and projects.
Required Qualifications
- Solid knowledge of key Supply Chain concepts (Demand/Supply/Production Planning, Capacity Leveling, PLM, Logistics and Inventory Control)
- Experience in manufacturing environment coordinating multi-discipline activities
- BS in Supply Chain Management or related field
- Proven ability to effectively engage with cross-functional organizations (Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, Engineering, Purchasing, Finance, Quality, etc.)
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills needed to resolve conflicts impacting the business strategy
- Advanced Excel skills to manipulate and analyze data
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including written, verbal, listening, and presentation
- Demonstrated customer-centric focus and global orientation
- Detail-oriented individual with a strong ability to multi-task
Preferred Qualifications
- Project Management certification
- Multi-year experience with planning systems, ERP systems experience required, Kinaxis system experience a plus.
- Knowledge and awareness of Lean techniques and Six Sigma, experience
- Advanced knowledge of data visualization tools (Power BI, QlikView, Tableau, etc.)
Requirements
- Solid knowledge of key Supply Chain concepts (Demand/Supply/Production Planning, Capacity Leveling, PLM, Logistics and Inventory Control)
- Experience in manufacturing environment coordinating multi-discipline activities
- BS in Supply Chain Management or related field
- Proven ability to effectively engage with cross-functional organizations
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced Excel skills to manipulate and analyze data
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including written, verbal, listening, and presentation
- Demonstrated customer-centric focus and global orientation
- Detail-oriented individual with a strong ability to multi-task
- Project Management certification
- Multi-year experience with planning systems
- ERP systems experience required
- Kinaxis system experience a plus
- Knowledge and awareness of Lean techniques and Six Sigma
- Advanced knowledge of data visualization tools (Power BI, QlikView, Tableau, etc.)
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Minimum 4 days in-office per week
Company overview
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) is one of the world's largest global medical technology companies, founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. As a Fortune 500 company, BD specializes in developing, manufacturing, and selling medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents across three primary segments: BD Medical, BD Life Sciences, and BD Interventional. The company's extensive product portfolio includes medical equipment such as syringes, needles, infusion systems, diagnostic instruments, flow cytometers, and surgical devices. With over 70,000 employees worldwide and operations in virtually every country, BD focuses on advancing healthcare through innovations in medical discovery, diagnostics, and care delivery. The company has a rich history of pioneering medical technologies, including the first insulin injection device, the Vacutainer blood collection system, and numerous safety-engineered medical devices. BD's mission centers on improving clinical therapy for patients and enhancing clinical processes for healthcare providers while addressing global health challenges through strategic partnerships and continuous innovation.