Senior Manager - Demand Planning - Pharma

- Identify key opportunities to ensure that a strategically right and cost effective supply chain model is leveraged.

- Ensure that the strategic model is devised by forecasting budget volume; proper space planning and integrating the supply chain model with marketing and sales team to ensure growth and profitability.

- Provide key input on capabilities requirements and solutions to support the execution of business strategies

- Investigate and provide market intelligence to the business to keep up with market scenario and current and changing trends within the Supply Chain function and their impact on business

- Partner with the global purchasing organization in making strategic purchasing decisions to take advantage of volume purchasing and result in better pricing

- Periodically meet with the global purchasing leadership group to strengthen relationship and enhance coordination of efforts.

- Manage supplier performance to include continuous improvement, innovations and reduction in total cost of ownership.

- Maintain and analyse supplier data for evaluating product quality, on-time deliveries & costs

- Drive and implement process improvements to ensure scalability and future growth.

- Work closely with the supply planning teams of different sites to ensure proper supply,

- Ensure that the suppliers and contractors that are appointed for the distribution centres are tracked with the correct verification checks to ensure credibility

- Ensure the SLAs are in place for suppliers to manage supplier performance and determine the choice of suppliers including the termination of contracts

- Track and monitor the deficiencies in samples reported externally and internally to ensure product integrity

- Integrate with Project Management and or Finance or Commercial to ensure Quality product is released to market.