Market Planner

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Market Planner to join our team, responsible for managing inventory at the country or cluster level. The successful candidate will play a critical role in monitoring and mitigating supply exceptions within their market, while driving effective communication between various stakeholders across the broader Baxter business.

Reporting to the Planning and Demand Manager you will drive effective communication between commercial, customer support, quality, regulatory affairs, network planners, and fulfillment teams in order to develop and implement strategies to communicate gaps between inventory and customer demand. You will come with hands on experience within Supply Planning, risk management and order management accountabilities.

This position provides a meaningful opportunity to work closely with diverse collaborators and achieve substantial outcomes in a fast-paced setting. If this role sounds interesting, apply today!

This is a 6-month fixed term role base at the Baxter Old Toongabbie office working in a hybrid arrangement.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and own the inventory plan and execution for the market, driving inventory optimization opportunities and deployment

• Analyze and report inventory variance, ensuring continuous improvement

• Lead the communication strategy to the commercial team for supply issues, including conducting commercial meetings to review pipelines and manage country fulfillment

• Communicate necessary parameter adjustments for cluster/country with network planners, demand planners, commercial, and other collaborators

• Resolve, communicate, and advance low cover products, proactively managing back-order risks and supply issues within responsible markets

• Lead strategic stock build planning driven by import license registration, M&A, and supply issues, influencing multiple collaborators to ensure informed decisions

• Complete outstanding order management tasks, such as monitoring/maintaining inbound POs and resolving short-term supply issues

• Monitor customer limits and rebalance product allocation in cooperation with marketing partners

• Apply stock allocation processes to ensure supply continuity in case of market instability

• Provide country or market-level feedback to network planners and Coordinated Planning Manager

• Manage new product launches and product phase-outs within the market

• Update JDE sourcing to direct DP forecast to the accurate BP, subject to geographies and local processes/ownership

• Build and maintain reports for the commercial team, including transfer orders and customer-specific reports

• Confirm transfer orders for products imported to their country/cluster of responsibility using Rapid Response and associated systems and reports

• Make decisions and promptly raise for all supply issue resolutions for imported products

• Complete monthly reserve proposals, identifying and communicating opportunities for discard avoidance

• Follow global performance metrics for system maintenance and ownership (JDE/Rapid Response).

Key requirements

• Tertiary degree in Business, Supply Chain Management or related fields

• 3-5 years of related experience in supply chain management, including supply planning, warehousing, distribution, logistics, transportation, customer service, or inventory planning

• Detailed working knowledge of effective Supply Chain performance, including Operations management

• Significant experience in prioritization and the ability to adapt to change

• APICS certification is desirable

• Advanced excel skills are required

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to judge when to deep dive.

• Extensive knowledge of import/export regulations

• Proficient in Rapid Response or other relevant planning systems.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with others, including influencing, communication, negotiating, and conflict management in a geographically diverse, matrix organization

• Fundamental project management abilities and lean/continuous improvement approach

• Customer-focused with a service approach.

Why Baxter?

At Baxter ANZ, we are focused on being a Best Place to Work where our people can be their authentic self, feel valued and respected. We are committed to a culture where all employees can collaborate and work together effectively. Relationships are a key component in how we operate in Baxter and we share the common traits of being reliable, ethical, caring, having empathy, actively listening to our colleagues as well as being open minded to new ideas and perspectives. Baxter is an organisation that makes inclusion and diversity a priority and that seeks to promote and improve gender equality in the workplace.

Baxter is proud to be recognized as an Inclusive Employer by the Diversity Council of Australia. We are also committed to delivering support structures for working families; stronger actions to address pay inequalities; and strategic recruitment and promotion practices that help to encourage the full participation of all people at work.

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or any other status protected by law. Baxter encourages applicants of all ages.

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Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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