Strategic Supply Chain Planner creating capacity plans and influencing long - range strategies at Dexcom, a leader in continuous glucose monitoring.
About the role
- Demand Planner ensuring reliable product availability for life-saving medical devices. Collaborating across functions to drive accurate demand forecasts and continuous improvement in planning processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end planning process for assigned product portfolios, ensuring accurate, timely, and consensus-driven forecasts.
- Develop and maintain statistical and consensus forecasts using historical data, market trends, product life-cycle insights, and commercial inputs.
- Facilitate and drive cross-functional demand review and IBP forums, partnering with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain to align on forecast assumptions and risks.
- Proactively analyze KPI’s (Forecast Accuracy, Bias, Forecast Value Add and demand variability); identify root causes and implement corrective actions to improve performance.
- Translate demand signals into actionable insights for supply planning, manufacturing, and inventory strategies.
- Support new product introductions (NPIs), product transitions, and end-of-life planning through robust demand modeling and scenario analysis.
- Monitor and communicate demand risks and opportunities, including upside/downside scenarios, capacity constraints, and market volatility.
- Ensure demand plans align with regulatory, quality, and compliance requirements inherent to medical device manufacturing.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including process standardization, system enhancements, and adoption of advanced planning tools.
- Use, understand and maintain cross-functional linkages within the organization’s demand planning software. (Blue Yonder)
- Serve as a subject matter expert for demand planning processes, tools, and best practices within the organization.
- Mentor and provide guidance to junior planners or analysts as appropriate.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree Required
- Minimum of 2 years relevant planning experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field.
- Advanced degree (MBA, MS in Supply Chain, Analytics, or Operations).
- Institute of Business Forecasting and/or APICS certification
- Experience in demand planning, forecasting, or supply chain analytics in a manufacturing environment.
- Medical device manufacturing or healthcare-related supply chain experience is a plus.
- Proficiency in demand planning tools and ERP systems (e.g., Blue Yonder, SAP APO/IBP, Oracle, Kinaxis, or similar), as well as advanced Excel.
- Experience with S&OP / IBP processes and cross-functional consensus forecasting.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret large, complex data sets and translate insights into business decisions.
- Strong communication and influencing skills in a matrixed, global organization.
- Exposure to advanced analytics, forecasting models, or digital supply chain initiatives.
- Experience applying DMAIC or lean sigma methodologies.
Benefits
- Health, Dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
- Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)
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