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.

**Your role at Baxter**

This is where you are accountable for managing all aspects of supply planning for a specified portfolio of key products within Baxter Canada’s supply chain. This role will be responsible for managing a framework that maximizes customer service by optimizing average working capital and overall supply chain costs by working closely with cross-functional partners. This role is responsible for financial metrics tied to inventory, and will support continuous improvement initiatives as required.

**Your Team**

We develop quality products with the patient in mind, so our efforts are also patient-centric. That means you can be proud of our work and the value we provide to people every day. As a large, multinational organization, you have the opportunity to expand your knowledge through collaboration with a variety of individuals, exposure to different facets of our portfolio, and a supportive leadership team that encourages ongoing development.

**What you'll be doing**

**Supply Management**
- Ensure customer service target of 97%+ is maintained at optimized inventory levels by procuring supply to meet the demand plan, creating purchase orders and tracking through receipt.
- Provides analysis to identify opportunities for improved supply utilization, standardization, and process improvement; evaluates findings and makes recommendations.
- Work closely with the Marketing and Demand Planning to synchronize all supply processes for Baxter Canada’s Global Business Unit and other key strategic product families.
- Communicates portfolio supply requirements to appropriate domestic and international manufacturing sites to ensure supply constraints and costs are mitigated and communicated appropriately.
- Provides leadership and leads communication to all international supply points/plants ensuring optimized supply plans, MPS and finished good replenishment schedules.
- Development and execution of short and mid-term purchasing plans including PO creation.
- Determine and report appropriate supply chain parameters such as available to promise and customer back order trends and patterns with supporting strategies for improvement.
- Complete portfolio lifecycle management ensuring financial risk mitigation.
- Builds and maintains constructive relationships with internal stakeholders, external partners/suppliers Baxter Canada and Baxter International functions including manufacturing, sales, marketing quality assurance, finance, manufacturing and regulatory affairs that impact portfolio.
- Analyze, establish and maintain planning inputs, including product lead-times, safety stock targets, production minimums, economic order quantities, ROP’s etc. and initiate actions to optimize all contributing variables with site production plans to ensure execution of the MRP and urgent customer issues.

**Metric and Financial Management**
- Report weekly and monthly inventory metrics accompanied with strategic and tactical actionable recommendations to optimize customer serve and inventory performance.
- Develops portfolio annual budget in collaboration with Manager, Supply Chain Planning and other appropriate business partners; provides monthly updates and reports.
- Collaboratively develop and manage portfolio metrics dashboard.
- Maintain portfolio working capital (inventory investment) with established targets

**Process Management & Continuous Improvement Initiatives**
- Provide monthly S&OP support
- Lead the back-order management process and develop optimization strategies with inventory and deployment. (Where applicable)
- Support the Financial inventory quarterly budgeting process and implementing initiatives to optimize inventory performance.
- Responsible for identification, reporting and mitigation of inventory write-off and excess inventories risk.
- Responsible for development, implementation and management of standard operating procedures and adherence to Baxter’s established practices and procedures.

**What you'll bring**

**Education Level**

Required:

- College/University Education

Preferred:

- APICS certification and /or working towards (ie CPIM)
- Specialization in Operations courses
- Master is Supply chain operations

**Major Subjects / Specialt