Global Demand Planning Lead

About the role

The Global Demand Planning Lead plays a pivotal role in enabling the Regional Demand Planning process. They oversee the integration and alignment of demand plans with Supply Planning, Operations, and Finance, ensuring alignment with executive decisions and trade-offs. This role also supports executive decision-making through structured trade-off analysis and coaches regional teams in global best practices for demand planning.

Responsibilities

• Demand Planning Process Governance
• Prepares and facilitates Demand Planning forums, including Country/Regional Demand Reviews, feeding into S&OP Roll Up reviews
• Maintains Demand Planning governance, calendar, standards, and decision frameworks
• Ensures timely, high-quality deliverables and executive materials, pulling out key insights from the Demand Planning cycle
• Tracks and drives closure of executive decisions and actions
• Integration & Alignment
• Ensures demand plans are transmitted correctly to Supply Planning as per agreed timeline
• Pairs with Regional Demand Planning & Global Demand Planning Manager to reflect key demand assumptions, risks, and opportunities
• Aligns with Supply Planning, Operations, and Finance on constraints and trade-offs, feeding back through the S&OP process
• Collaborates on scenario planning with Regional and supply planning
• Performance Management
• Owns core Demand KPIs (forecast accuracy, forecast value add, bias), recommending specific targets and measuring performance at Regional/Country/Code levels
• Owns any Demand developments or enhancements in Gains and Power BI
• Supports root-cause analysis and corrective actions
• Ensures data integrity across planning systems and reports
• Continuous Improvement
• Leads initiatives to improve Demand Planning maturity, analytics, and ways of working
• Supports process and system enhancements and standardization
• Coaches Regional Demand Planners to ensure alignment to demand planning best practices

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years’ experience
• Experience with S&OP, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, or Integrated Business Planning
• Strong S&OP knowledge, advanced analytics, planning systems expertise, and executive communication skills
• Successful experience working proactively in a global environment, developing strong linkages at many levels
• Knowledge and use of relevant PC software applications and skills to use them effectively
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

Benefits

Our benefits package includes competitive compensation, comprehensive health and wellness programs, and a range of voluntary programs designed to support your well-being and work-life balance. We also offer a 401(k) plan with a matching contribution and a robust drug-free workplace policy.

Pay

Target Pay Range: $107,500.00 to $134,400.00 - Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data

Schedule

Open to candidates willing to relocate to Lakewood, Colorado.

Physical Requirements

General Labor Environment requirements include: use of personal protective equipment, reading, speaking, hearing, walking, bending, standing, stretching/reaching, hand/finger dexterity, and occasional lifting up to 50 pounds, or transporting up to 500 pounds via carts or mechanized equipment.

Location

Lakewood, Colorado

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. All applicants will be afforded equal opportunity without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, military status or an unfavorable discharge from military service.

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies

We are part of Terumo Group, founded in 1921 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. In 2024, Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies reached $1.5 billion in revenue. We employ nearly 8,000 associates globally, with global headquarters in Lakewood, CO, U.S., and regional headquarters in Brussels, Buenos Aires, Singapore and Tokyo. We manufacture devices, disposable sets and solutions at our facilities in Belgium, India, Japan, Northern Ireland, the U.S. and Vietnam. Our global presence enables us to serve customers in more than 130 countries. Our core values help set our direction, guide our actions and keep us true to our corporate mission of contributing to society through healthcare.