Demand Planning

Experience from 2 upto 8 Years

Location: Pune, Giga Space Viman Nagar

Demand Planning and Forecast Management

• Develops and maintains a rolling, unconstrained demand forecast at the appropriate product, market, and time horizons using statistical forecasts, historical trends, commercial intelligence, and business assumptions.

• Leads the monthly demand review within the IBP cycle, consolidating market inputs and documenting key assumptions, risks, opportunities, and decisions.

• Monitors forecast accuracy, bias, forecast value add, and demand variability; performs root-cause analysis and drives corrective actions with market and commercial teams.

• Maintains demand plans in approved planning systems like OMP/APO and ensures timely, accurate submission of forecasts in accordance with the regional planning calendar and governance standards.

• Identifies significant forecast changes, demand spikes or drops, tender opportunities, and market events, and communicates their business impact to relevant stakeholders.

• Partners with supply planning to translate the approved demand plan into actionable supply priorities and to assess service, inventory, and capacity implications.

Commercial and Cross-functional Collaboration

• Partners with regional and country commercial, marketing, finance, market access, and supply chain teams to build a consensus demand plan supported by clear assumptions.

• Facilitates demand discussions and constructively challenges inputs using data, market intelligence, and historical performance.

• Provides demand insights for business planning, financial outlooks, inventory decisions, and scenario planning, including upside and downside risks.

• Ensures timely escalation and alignment on material demand changes that may affect customer service, inventory, or supply continuity.

Portfolio Planning, Analytics, and Process Improvement

• Develops strong product, market, and customer knowledge to improve forecast quality across complex orthopaedics portfolios.

• Coordinates demand assumptions for new product introductions, tenders, phase-in and phase-out activities, cannibalization, regulatory milestones, and product discontinuations.

• Uses planning systems, dashboards, and analytical tools to identify trends, exceptions, and opportunities for forecast and process improvement.

• Supports standardization, automation, data-quality improvement, and adoption of demand planning best practices across the region.