Global Planning Director

SCOPE, POSITION SUMMARY

Scope: E2E Planning including S&OP, Inventory Management, Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning and Production Planning

Position Summary: The position is responsible for designing and deploying best-in-class planning processes to guarantee the highest market availability of STAAR Surgical ICL’s and its accessories and optimized inventories globally through the generation, maintenance, and ongoing management of the end-to-end planning processes.

The leader will build and lead a high performing team, with a focus on generating a best-in-class supply performance with end-to-end product visibility.

The position will effectively collaborate with the supply chain leads across the E2E Supply Chain as well as with key stakeholders from other STAAR Surgical functions (e.g Customer Service, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, IT,…).

The position will be part of the Global E2E Supply Chain Leadership Team.

OBJECTIVES AND MAIN TASKS

Objectives: Design and develop best-in-class planning strategies and processes to ensure product availability in support of the defined service level targets. Operate with optimized inventory levels to ensure best use of the working capital, limiting product write-offs.

Leads a team with full accountability for end-to-end planning, including S&OP, Strategic Capacity Planning, Inventory Management, Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning and Production Planning.

This includes following tasks:

· Develop and deploy a global S&OP process

· Demonstrate a good understanding of manufacturing capacity, capabilities & processes, know how to run simulations on forecasted demand against supply resources while creating a time phased inventory plan by item to drive an optimal inventory level. Accurately project & correct supply shortfalls and surpluses on a daily/weekly or monthly basis and arbitrate and decide for supply conflicts or short falls.

· Drive globally the demand planning process, included in the S&OP. Review and adjust based forecast demand and add events as appropriate.

· Generation, maintenance, and ongoing management of a rough-cut capacity plan (RCCP), a master production schedule (MPS) and a materials requirement plan (MRP) based on the demand forecasts from the respective business groups (regions).

· Review and resolve capacity constraints based on the net requirements plan (NRP), in collaboration with the manufacturing leads for the internal manufacturing sites Nidau and Monrovia and with the external suppliers to ensure reliable supply of materials.

· Ensure that the MPS and detailed scheduling ensures the right inventory levels and mix to obtain high levels of customer service while achieving inventory targets and policies set forth by the business. Monitors the scheduled execution across the network and adjusts MPS accordingly.

· The responsibility includes the optimization of the inventory as an outcome of the E2E planning process. Develop and deploy inventory policies and standards across the relevant inventory nodes.

· Overlook and drive the supplier planning process, creating and replenishing the STAAR Surgical RM and FG (accessory related) units.

· Ensure maintenance of the planning related master data elements.

· The position is responsible for the improvement, rationalization and standardization of the planning process across the global supply chain while deploying those in a consistent way globally.

· As part of the STAAR Surgical talent development strategy, the planning lead will build and guide a high performing team, with a focus on generating a best-in-class supply performance with end-to-end product visibility.

· Recruits and organizes staff and trains departmental personnel to ensure a high level of efficiency, professionalism and compliance with cGMP regulations; local, state and national laws; and STAAR Surgical Company policies.

· The lead will ensure talent development of the team members, while overseeing the overall capability building.

REQUIREMENTS AND SKILLS

· Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent as a minimum

· Special Knowledge: Supply Chain planning design, deployment and modeling

· Personal skills: pragmatic, team leadership, analytical thinking, hands-on approach, decisiveness, organizational sensitivity, initiative, resilience. Ability to drive collaboration across SC functions as well with other critical business functions to lead to an integrated S&OP/Business Planning process. Guide and control the team, decision making as appropriate, motivate, develop the team

· Professional Experience: Leadership experience in supply chain or planning roles, demonstrated success to improve the most critical planning metrics (service through product availability, inventory optimization)

· Language: English, German/French is an additional advantage

· Systems: Experience in deploying Oracle or SAP/APO, or other ERP solutions with additional best-in-class advanced planning solutions

· Process: demonstrated experience in planning process (re)-design and deployment