Senior Supply Demand Planner

Intuitive - Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Sunnyvale, CA

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

The position involves participating and managing the Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process at Intuitive, a leader in robotic-assisted surgery. The role focuses on leveraging analytical skills and manufacturing/supply chain experience to compute demand and supply plans, ensuring alignment with customer demand and inventory targets. Team members will collaborate across various departments to enhance forecasting accuracy and operational efficiency, contributing to the overall mission of advancing minimally invasive care.

Responsibilities

• Drive/participate in cross-functional team meetings/SIOP process to develop best in class demand plan and optimum supply plan
• Facilitate and drive collaboration with Marketing, Sales Operations, Finance team members to develop monthly/quarterly forecasts over mid-term and long-term
• Partner with NPI/Engineering/Marketing teams to understand product lifecycle/buffer strategy, develop robust plans to enable new product launch and product end of life (EOL) planning
• Review and make improvements to statistical forecasting models, to drive best-in-class demand forecast accuracy
• Analyze data output, historical shipments/consumption for any modifications required based on product segmentation
• Understand/manage safety stock/inventory targets for various regions/plants
• Partner with manufacturing, planning, regulatory and facilities teams to understand and drive buffer strategies to enable building moves and plan for regulatory restrictions
• Develop capacity and material constrained build plan through cross functional collaboration with various partners (Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain)
• Scenario planning for different Demand and Supply scenarios, understand & articulate the different options and impact
• Represent their product families and present relevant data/charts in the cross-functional SIOP meetings
• Load plan to enable Manufacturing and Supply Chain execution
• Monitor performance to plan, eg. forecast versus actuals, and drive corrective actions/mitigation plans
• Support other planning activities such as Long Range Planning, Excess & Obsolete reduction etc
• Drive improvements to Key Performance Indicators such as Forecast accuracy, First Pass Fill Rate, Backorder, Finished Goods Inventory Attainment through root-cause analysis and cross-functional collaboration
• Troubleshoot and help resolve MPS/MRP issues for demand propagation; Participate in key projects, testing and go-live.

Requirements

• MS/MBA with 6+ years relevant experience; Degree in Engineering, Math/Finance, Operations Research, Supply Chain highly preferred
• Minimum BS with 8+ years relevant experience; Degree in Supply Chain, Operations Research, Finance, IE, Engineering highly preferred
• Analytical rigor / Data/ problem solving skills
• Supply Chain/ Planning Domain experience
• Product Life-cycle Management (New product introduction, End of Sale)
• Intermediate level in MS Office applications - Excel and .ppt
• Familiarity and/or ability to work with Advanced Planning applications and/or ERP applications to create scalable processes
• Leadership, communication and executive presentation skills to share insights/gain consensus

Benefits

• Market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity