Global Demand

Do you want to join an international team working to improve the future of healthcare? Do you want to improve the lives of millions of people? Grifols is a global healthcare company which, since its foundation in Barcelona in 1909, has been working to improve the health and well-being of people all over the world. Our four divisions - Bioscience, Diagnostic, Hospital and Bio Supplies - develop, produce and market innovative medicines, solutions and services in more than 100 countries and regions.

**Help us lead one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies**

Reporting to the Global Demand & Inventory Planning Manager, will be the responsible to create and to manage a global demand plan for a group of products of Grifols Diagnostics Division. Ensuring the proper planning processes, monitoring parameters and metrics and collaborating with other departments.

**You will have the opportunity to**:
**Manage demand planning processes and tools. Develop and stablish high level of collaboration between departments.**
- Owner of the planning processes, tools, flows and templates
- Focus on sales forecast management and sales forecast quality (Accuracy & BIAS) improvement
- Ensure that all planning activities happen on time with the right quality.
- Collaborate with other departments on data flows to support integrated planning
- Deliver full visibility to the business on the demand plan and the financial reconciliation associated to them.
- Highlight and escalate supply constrained situations to global and regional commercial heads and inventory planners for demand allocation prioritisation and review
- Review aggregated inventory plan fulfilment with manufacturing and external suppliers in S&OP process
- Participate and ensure the supply of new product launches
- Manage product lifecycle situations and adjust planning processes and tools properly
- Implement process improvements by partnering with other Grifols functions like finance, industrial, IT and the rest of Supply Chain

**Monitor critical planning parameters and metrics.**
- Ensure parameters alignment within regions, service level and production capacity.
- Monitor root cause analysis and action plan implementation for any metrics deviation
- Provide visibility to all stakeholders on their performance against the plan
- Provide the information to facilitate strategic decisions on issue resolution & gap closing

**Who you are**

**Essential**
- Bachelor’s Degree of Supply Chain Management or related discipline.
- At least 3 years’ experience in Demand/Inventory/Supply Planning functions
- Expert in SAP SD/MM/PP
- Advanced level in MS Excel and other MS products (PowerPoint, Word, Access)
- Proactive self-starter dedicated to continuous improvement
- Proven ability to work under pressure in ambiguous situations and respond appropriately in a timely manner
- Excellent analytical skill to interpret complex data and effective problem solving skills
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
- Team working skills
- Proficient in Spanish and English

**Desirable**
- Pharmaceutical industry background.
- Prior experience in Demand and Inventory planning software implementation

**What we offer**
- Permanent position.
- Flexible schedule: Monday - Thursday 8h - 9h to 17h - 18h and Friday 8h - 15h
- Benefits package.

This is a brilliant opportunity for you. Grifols is fully aware that its employees are one of its major assets. We are committed to maintaining an atmosphere that encourages all our employees to develop their professional careers in an excellent working environment. Grifols is an equal opportunity employer.

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