Sr. Demand planning Manager US Orthopedics (Bogota, Colombia)...

Overview

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This position reporting directly to the Sr. Director Supply Chain Americas the Sr. Planning Manager US Ortho Franchise. This role provides strategic and tactical leadership for all aspects of the US regional demand planning process, with a focus on driving maturity toward a fully integrated Integrated Business Planning (IBP) framework. The position owns the regional portfolio segmentation and optimization strategy and sets the demand planning policy to ensure alignment with business objectives and long-term growth plans.

As a critical cross-functional leader, this position will refine and maintain rolling volume and financial business projections, identify gaps, and work with commercial, finance, and supply chain partners to develop and execute effective countermeasures. Success in this role requires linking demand plans to P&L impact and embedding decision-making processes that balance service, cost, and cash.

The role will drive consensus and collaboration between Marketing / Commercial (Franchises and Country Clusters), Finance, and Supply Chain partners — including Global Planning — to achieve world-class forecast accuracy, bias reduction, and demand signal quality.

What will you be doing?

Key priorities include :

• Evolving S&OP into IBP by integrating commercial insight, financial alignment, and supply chain capability into a single, connected planning process.
• Building scenario-based planning capabilities to proactively respond to market shifts.
• Embedding investment demand planning and governance into the monthly cycle.
• Developing tools and processes to enable data-driven challenge of assumptions.
• Provide strategic and tactical leadership for the planning activities of designated franchise. Achieve customer service levels for the region.
• Leading the Demand planning, for USA region.
• Responsible for Forecast Accuracy and integration with financial plans and demand plans.
• Responsible for Life Cycle Management including end-to-end NPI process, phase-out and E&O / Scrap.
• Monitoring / Maintenance : Improve and ensure all planning parameters are accurate and updated in relevant planning systems.
• Ensure single set of data and strive for one planning system.
• Monitor, root cause and reduce customer backorders.
• Identify constraints, risks & opportunities associated with demand across USA region; provide recommendations and guidance of trade-offs for effective decision making by P+L owner.
• Delivers the monthly demand plan; monitors forecast metrics and advises adjustments to models and market intelligence accordingly.

What will you need to be successful?

Successful candidates would need the following :

Competencies

The position leads a team of 3-5 employees, driving engagement, capability development, and accountability. As part of the broader Supply Chain Planning and Commercial organization, the role will be a key contributor to delivering the service, cost, and inventory outcomes needed to support business growth and operational excellence.

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