Supply & Demand Planner

Function:
Operations

We are Zim Vie
, a global life sciences leader focused on restoring daily life by advancing clinical technology to improve patients’ smiles, function, and confidence. Our company is founded on a legacy of trusted brands, products, and clinical evidence made possible through an inclusive and collaborative culture that empowers our team members to bring their whole selves – their best selves – to work every day to accomplish our Mission.

Together, our dedicated, diverse global team is shaping an exciting future for Zim Vie – we hope you’ll consider being a part of it!

We are seeking a motivated and analytical Global Demand Planner to support demand forecasting across all Zim Vie products and regions. This role will be responsible for building, maintaining, and continuously improving global demand forecasts by leveraging historical sales, market intelligence, portfolio assumptions, commercial inputs, statistical models, and business trends.

The Global Demand Planner will play a key role in the implementation and ongoing execution of Zim Vie’s Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process. This individual will help establish forecasting standards, global planning calendars, templates, data governance routines, demand review inputs, and performance metrics that create stronger alignment between Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Supply Planning, Procurement, Distribution, and Manufacturing.

This position requires strong analytical capability, attention to detail, business acumen, and the ability to translate large volumes of data into actionable insights. The role will support global visibility of demand, risks, opportunities, portfolio assumptions, and forecast changes to enable better decision-making, improved customer service, optimized inventory, and stronger alignment with financial goals.

• Develop, maintain, and improve global demand forecasts for all Zim Vie products, regions, franchises, and business segments, incorporating statistical baselines, commercial input, market trends, product lifecycle assumptions, and financial targets.
• Support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of Zim Vie’s global S&OP process, including demand review preparation, meeting cadence, templates, analytics, assumptions tracking, and decision follow‑up.
• Partner with Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Supply Planning, Manufacturing, Procurement, Distribution, Customer Service, and Regulatory teams to ensure demand forecasts reflect business assumptions, launch plans, discontinuations, regulatory constraints, supply risks, and customer demand signals.
• Maintain global forecasting data, demand planning files, assumptions, and master data inputs to ensure accuracy, consistency, transparency, and repeatability across regions and product hierarchies.
• Analyze historical sales, forecast accuracy, forecast bias, demand variability, backlog, inventory, service levels, and other planning indicators to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and root causes of forecast changes.
• Prepare global demand review materials, including dashboards, forecast bridges, variance analysis, demand risk and opportunity summaries, portfolio views, and executive-level S&OP inputs.
• Coordinate monthly forecast updates and ensure changes are documented, validated, and communicated to the appropriate stakeholders within the S&OP cycle.
• Help define and monitor demand planning KPIs, including forecast accuracy, forecast bias, demand plan adherence, forecast value add, service level impact, inventory implications, and forecast‑to‑financial alignment.
• Support the implementation or enhancement of forecasting tools, analytics, ERP inputs, reporting structures, and planning processes required to improve demand planning maturity.
• Identify data quality issues, planning process gaps, and improvement opportunities; partner with the appropriate teams to implement corrective actions and sustainable processes.
• Support portfolio segmentation, ABC analysis, lifecycle management, new product introductions, phase‑outs, and slow‑moving or obsolete inventory analysis as part of the global…