Market Planner

Market Planner at Vantive summary:

The Market Planner at Vantive is responsible for analyzing and optimizing inventory deployment across the UCAN region, working closely with supply chain, logistics, and demand planning teams to mitigate supply risks and improve process efficiency. The role involves leading collaborative meetings, managing inventory balance, and providing data-driven recommendations to support regional supply chain operations. Strong analytical skills, supply chain experience, and stakeholder management are essential for success in this position within a healthcare-focused organ therapy company.

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…