Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

How will you make an impact?

The Demand Planner will be the key point of contact for the demand forecast maintained in Demantra for a given portfolio of product lines. The demand planner will leverage inputs from across its commercial partners to improve the signal across a 24-month time horizon. This role is critical to driving value across the supply chain by creating an accurate forecast as a starting point.

What will you do?

• Work cross functionally and with customers to capture customer recurring orders and create and manage opportunities within Salesforce.com.
• Provide gap analysis for historic orders not included in customer forecasts.
• Effective project management adhering to established timelines.
• Support Sales Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process and improvements to customer forecast accuracy.
• Generate customer presentations for business review including key customer data metrics.
• Manage metrics and trends, implementing proactive actions to increase efficiencies and productivity.
• Support the timely and successful delivery of products.
• Generate monthly and quarterly firm and rolling customer forecasts based on direct discussions with planners for our core and high-volume customer accounts.
• Analyze and apply historical customer order information, customer forecast data, (as well as current open orders information) and work with customers’ buyers and purchasers to drive the customer’s purchase order horizon at least 2-3 months beyond our current lead-time.
• Develop and maintain metrics to track performance and contribution for their area, such as customer forecast accuracy.

How will you get here?

Education:

• Minimum required education: bachelor’s degree in a business or analytical field (operations management, engineering, sciences, finance, business administration).
• MBA or master’s degree – preferred.

Experience:

• Experience in a sales operations, forecasting, or similar role required.
• Experience with SIOP, demand planning, forecasting and Salesforce.com CRM in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Experience in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Windows, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word) and Oracle or other ERP system.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Solid understanding of supply chain procedures and supply management
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Must have confirmed experience in customer relations and problem-solving customer issues.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple facilities and reporting lines.

Compensation and Benefits:

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $75,000 – 112,500k.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one global team of 100,000 colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards