Planning Excellence Lead

The Opportunity

The Planning Excellence Lead supports, develops, and deploys long-term product planning and portfolio strategy across the global Roche organization. Key responsibilities include:

• Recommend global inventory and safety stock levels to meet customer service, business continuity, and cost objectives.
• Consolidate global market demand signals to drive annual long-term planning, balance strategic stock levels, and coordinate production volumes with manufacturing sites.
• Initiate, prepare, execute, and follow up on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings to foster cross-functional alignment and joint accountability across the managed portfolio.
• Set up and lead a Product Planning Business Partner Network to harmonize planning methodologies and ensure a unified understanding of product strategy across regions.
• Act as the Chief of Staff for the Global Product Planning Leadership Forum, driving the annual strategic agenda and fostering collaborative decision-making.
• Drive and influence strategic initiatives across Diagnostics Supply Chain to optimize distribution routing, manage bottlenecks, and mitigate potential supply disruptions.

Who you are

• Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in Supply Chain, Logistics, or a closely related field.
• Professional Experience: 7–10 years of experience in supply chain management within an international logistics environment, with a proven track record in project management and organizational transformation.
• Functional Expertise: Sound knowledge of supply chain planning, operations, and materials management, ideally with experience applying Six Sigma methodologies.
• Technical Skills: Exceptional ability to analyze complex data structures, use modern analytical tools for data visualization, and derive actionable insights from raw data.
• Strategic & Enterprise Thinker: An integrative personality and enterprise thinker with a proven track record of building bridges across organizations to align people and content.
• Communication & Stakeholder Management: Outstanding teamwork and communication skills, with experience managing competing interests among diverse stakeholders and presenting complex analyses to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience in an international logistics environment.
• Proven track record in project management and organizational transformation.
• Sound knowledge of supply chain planning, operations, and materials management.
• Experience applying Six Sigma methodologies.
• Exceptional ability to analyze complex data structures and derive actionable insights.
• An integrative personality and enterprise thinker with a proven track record of building bridges across organizations.
• Outstanding teamwork and communication skills, with experience managing competing interests among diverse stakeholders and presenting complex analyses to senior leadership.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus based on individual and Company performance.
• Details on benefits are provided in this link.

Pay

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Indianapolis, Indiana is $109,000 - $202,400. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.