Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

 

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. 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 are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

 

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

Summary:

The Market Planner manages inventory at country or cluster level. MPs monitor and mitigate supply exceptions at country-level and lead and drive communications between the commercial team, customer support, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Network Planners, and fulfillment teams regarding gaps between inventory and customer demand especially in import markets. MPs work with NPs to mitigate short and medium-term supply and inventory issues and determine strategy for communicating gaps between inventory and customer demand to commercial team. In import scenarios, MPs may manage fulfillment within country nodes. The role encompasses a high level of risk management and order management accountabilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

This section contains a list of five to eight primary responsibilities of this role that account for the majority of the work. The incumbent will perform other duties assigned.

Develop and own the inventory plan and execution for the market.  Drive for inventory optimization opportunity analysis and deployment.  Analyze and report inventory variance.Own the communication strategy to the commercial team for supply issues. Lead commercial meetings to review pipelines and manage country fulfillment. Communicate any required parameter changes for cluster/country (e.g. lead time (F), safety stock (MP), freq. (F). Communicate with NP’s and commercial and other stakeholders any mid-cycle MPS adjustments, DRP parameters and proactively resolve supply issues.Understand, resolve, communicate, escalate low cover products.Manage back-order risks with Supply Planner and communicate to commercial teams (In some cluster/country (e.g. US), market role will be limited to imported products).Lead the strategic stock build planning for the market driven by import license registration, M&A, supply issue, etc. Time will be spent understanding the product registration and operation processes, market demand, and the Market Planner will generate different scenarios influencing multiple stakeholders to ensure informed decisions.   Develop and own the inventory plan and execution for the market.  Drive for inventory optimization opportunity analysis and deployment.  Analyze and report inventory variance being the accountable owner.  Order management including monitoring inbound POs, and work with Supply Planner, global logistics and transportation, shipping site, global carriers and foreign trade to find resolution to short term supply issues.Monitor customer limits and rebalance product allocation, when needed in cooperation with marketing partners.Provide country or market-level feedback to Network Planner and Supply (Network) Manager.Manage new product launches and product phase outs within the market.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 commercial team including transfer orders and customer-specific reports. (In some cluster/country (e.g. US), the Market Planner role will be limited to imported products). Provide information on any system/planning parameter changes for their cluster.Confirm transfer orders for products imported to their country/cluster Market Planners will confirm the transfer orders from planning systems for products that are imported to their country/cluster except for US & Canada.Make decisions and approve all Supply issue resolution for imported products.Complete monthly reserve proposal, identify and communicate opportunities for discard avoidance.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. List knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s degree preferred with a minimum of 5 -7 years related experience in supply chain management - warehousing, distribution, logistics, transportation, customer service or and inventory planning is required.Detailed working knowledge of effective Supply Chain performance, including Operations management.Strong analytical skills and ability to judge when to deep dive – the Market Planner will be self-driven to achieve their outcomes.  Extensive knowledgeable of import/export regulations.Proficient in RapidResponse or other relevant planning systems.Significant experience of prioritization and ability to adapt 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.APICS certification is a plus.

Education and/or Experience:

Include the education and experience that is necessary to perform the job satisfactorily.

Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s degree preferred with a minimum of 5-7 years related experience in supply chain management – planning, logistics, transportation is required.

Reasonable Accommodations

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