Market Planner

Market Planner – UCAN Region

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, and we are now deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while expanding into vital organ therapies.

The UCAN Market Planner (MP) will be an inventory analysis expert for the UCAN region. This role will critically examine and mitigate supply exceptions and lead monthly and quarterly deep dive events between key partners such as the region Market Planners, Demand Planners, and fulfillment teams 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.
• Execute analysis to ensure a balanced network within country nodes.
• Drive process optimization and continuous improvement ideas and projects.
• Drive inventory optimization opportunity analysis and deployment; analyze and report inventory variance as 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 and manage country fulfillment and 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, and elevate low cover products, compiling 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 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 approval.

• Bachelor’s Degree required, minimum of 3 years related experience in supply chain management – distribution, logistics, transportation, or inventory planning.
• Detailed working knowledge of effective Supply Chain performance, including Operations management.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to judge when to deep dive – self‑driven to achieve outcomes.
• Proficient in Rapid Response or other relevant planning systems.
• Significant experience prioritizing and adapting 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 offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Health and well‑being benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage starting on day one, and 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, Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time‑off benefits such as paid holidays and paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, paid parental leave, commuting benefits, the Employee Discount…