Market Planner

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Your role at Vantive

The UCAN Market Planner (MP) will be an inventory analysis expert for the UCAN region. This role will critically examine and mitigate supply exceptions as well as lead monthly and quarterly deep dive events between key partners such as the region Market Planners, Demand Planners, and fulfillment teams (transportation, deployment and logistics) with a focus on released to received inventory ensuring customer needs are met. 

• Align tasks with Supply (Network) Planners, Region Market Planners and Network Logistics to mitigate short and medium-term supply and inventory issues.
• Provide support with inventory analysis, report building and audit trail investigation. 
• Identify and support closure of gaps in inventory deployment process between supply and customer demand by location.
• Analysis execution to ensure a balanced network within country nodes.
• Drive process optimization and continuous improvement ideas and projects.
• The role encompasses a high level of risk management and order leadership accountabilities.
• This Market Planner will be responsible for UCAN Renal inventory.

What you will be doing

• Drive for inventory optimization opportunity analysis and deployment.  Analyze and report inventory variance being the accountable owner.  
• Own the communication through the S&OE process supporting the logistics team for supply issues. Including leading monthly and quarterly collaborative function meetings to review pipelines to manage country fulfillment and manage back-order risks with Supply (Network) Planner and deployment and logistics teams
• Provide country or market-level feedback to Network Planner such as changes in any required parameters for cluster/country (e.g. lead time (F), safety stock (MP), freq. (F). Communicate with Supply (Network) Planner’s and other stakeholders any DRP parameters and proactively resolve supply issues.
• Understand, resolve, communicate, escalate low cover products, and proactively compile escalations and tracking for regional review.
• Monitor customer vs DC limits and rebalance product allocation when needed in cooperation with Region Market Planners and commercial intelligence.
• Update of JDE sourcing to direct DP forecast to the correct BP (site) subject to geographies and local processes/ownership. 
• Build and maintain reports for visibility of transfer orders, network imbalances, and customer sourcing DC specific need reports. 
• Provide proposals for supply issue resolution and make recommendations for stakeholder’s approval.

What you will bring

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 3 + years related experience in supply chain management – planning, logistics, transportation is required.
• Detailed working knowledge of effective Supply Chain performance, including Operations management.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to judge when to deep dive – the Market Planner will be self-driven to achieve their outcomes.
• Proficient in Rapid Response or other relevant planning systems.
• Significant experience of prioritization and ability to adapt to change.
• Proven stakeholder management skills (including influencing, communication negotiating and conflict management) and experience in a geographically diverse, matrix organization.
• Basic Project management skill and lean/continuous improvement.
• Customer focused, service mindset.
• Local language skills required.

Vantive is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Vantive, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $76,000 to $104,500 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.

US Benefits at Vantive

This is where your well-being matters. Vantive offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Aon Pooled Employer Plan (“Aon PEP”), Vantive’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, to help you prepare for your future.  The Aon PEP is designed to help improve retirement outcomes by providing retirement resources more efficiently.  The plan offers a robust set of investment options, financial education, and a suite of resources to support your retirement goals.

We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our employees. For additional information regarding Vantive’s US Benefits, please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits | Vantive

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Vantive is an equal opportunity employer. Vantive evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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