Job Details of Senior Supply Planning Specialist

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Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

We are looking for a Senior Supply Planning Specialist at Roche Diagnostics.

Who we are:

At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. We push back the frontiers of healthcare and believe that good business means a better world. That is why 97.000 employees across 150 countries come to work each day. By working together, we are one of the leading healthcare companies.

Roche Diagnostics is the part of Roche that focuses on diagnostics and insights.

Roche Diagnostics Turkey is a purpose-driven, agile, and customer-centric organization; responsible for Turkey and Central Asian & Caucasian countries. We are a company in transformation and we want to stay that way. With a new vision, strategy, and organizational model we are ready to realize our ambitions and help realize better outcomes for patients and the healthcare system.

Will you join us in that ambition as a Senior Supply Planning Specialist?

We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it, with a clear goal in mind: “Doing now what patients need next.”

As a Senior Supply Planning Specialist, your main tasks are:

• Lead demand planning of the relevant product portfolio

• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in terms of supply & demand planning

• Proactively engage with other departments (especially with Marketing and Commercial) on forecasting market/customer trends and phase-in/phase-out projects.

• Continuously improve forecasting techniques, methods, and approaches.

• Report and analyze KPIs (Inventory levels, Backorder Value, Forecast Accuracy, Slow Moving Inventory, etc.) and take improvement actions.

• Be SAP Material Master Data Expert and support Controlling Inventory related analysis

• Responsible for continuous supply of the products sold in the local affiliate supporting business targets and customer satisfaction in compliance with procedures.

• Conduct demand & supply planning operations for the imported products (reagents, consumables, instruments, spare parts)

• Responsible for the maintaining of ordering processes:

• Weekly orders of routine consumed products
• Instrument/device order requests entered in the Rdstock-instrument/device tracking tool via the sales team
• Spare parts

• Sales & Operation Process setup / execute to align all parties including 3PL

• Set up the connection between 3PL capacity and market growth /fluctuations

• Calculate /evaluate safety stock levels according to Roche market growth and manage the stock levels in all limits

• Conduct forecast and sales pattern analysis periodically to maximize product availability

• Managing master data for all products and maintaining regular controls

• Collaborate with local and global teams to develop/contribute new projects to be able to maintain continuous improvement in supply operations

• Assessing the financial structure and inventory storage capabilities of the business

• Anticipating stock demands based on current and future business functions

• Ensuring the business has a steady flow of stock without over-capitalizing on materials

• Suggesting changes to inventory warehousing to meet increased or reduced demand

• Taking actions proactively to reduce obsolete materials in the inventory

Who you are:

You are looking for a company where you have the opportunity to keep challenging and developing yourself, both personally and professionally, and to work in an international environment with career options. Your job description does not define who you are and does not limit what you do, but rather is the starting point from which you look further to create value.

• You are fluent in Turkish and English; fluency in German is a big plus

• Hold a business or comparable university degree, an MBA is a plus

• Strong strategic thinker

• Have an agile mindset and can-do attitude

• Have strong supply chain experience

• Experienced with MS Office Applications

• Have 5+ years of planning experience in Healthcare or FMCG industry

• 5+ years of experience in SAP with 2 full life-cycle implementations, upgrade and support projects

• Have strong interpersonal skills to be successful in decision-making processes, even in a high-pressure environment.

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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