SEA & India EP Planning Lead Full Time

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Job Function

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function

Integrated Business Planning

Job Category

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Mumbai, India

Job Description

Position Summary

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The SEA & India EP Planning Lead is the primary demand planning and IBP lead for Electrophysiology across Southeast Asia and India, reporting to the Senior Manager, ROA EP Planning. Based in Pune, this role owns country- and cluster-level demand forecasts, facilitates IBP/S&OP execution across markets, and supervises a small local planning team. The role partners closely with Commercial (Field Sales, Distributor Services, Clinical Affairs), Supply Planning, Logistics, and Finance to ensure product availability for EP labs, support launches, and balance service levels with working capital constraints.

The Role’s Scope Of Responsibilities Include

• Own end-to-end demand planning and consensus forecasting for EP products across India and SEA markets.
• Facilitate the regional/country IBP and S&OP cadences — prepare inputs, run demand reviews, reconcile differences.
• Translate commercial inputs (lab procedure schedules, physician adoption, distributor orders, tenders) into robust demand signals and replenishment recommendations.
• Manage and coach local planners and distributor planning contacts; review forecast changes and approve local demand plan updates.
• Execute launch demand scenarios and readiness activities for country rollouts; coordinate stock staging, allocation and local launch inventories.
• Drive forecast accuracy improvements and root-cause analysis by product segment, channel and customer type; implement corrective actions.
• Provide analytics, reporting and inventory insights to commercial and supply stakeholders (forecast variance, service level risk, DSO impact).
• Maintain regular engagement with distributors and key hospital/procurement stakeholders to improve demand visibility.
• Support regional initiatives to improve planning systems and data flows.
• Ensure planning processes comply with quality and regulatory requirements.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

In order of importance, briefly describe, in sentence form, the essential functions/major responsibilities of this position (principal duties and responsibilities of the position) as it exists today.  Describe the job, not the person in the job.  Each item listed below should be an essential function/major responsibility of the position, not a day-to-day activity.

Typically, job descriptions should contain no more than seven or eight major responsibilities ranked in order of highest percentage time to least.

Approximate Percentage of Time

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

45%

• Demand forecasting, consensus planning and IBP execution

20%

• Stakeholder engagement with Commercial, Distributors and Supply

15%

• Team supervision, coaching and governance

10%

• Launch planning and scenario analysis

10%

• Analytics, reporting and continuous improvement

100%

• Total

Required Qualifications

Consider and identify qualifications potential applicants must possess in order to be considered for the position. Basic Qualifications must be clearly stated, objective and relevant to this particular position.

Required Minimum Education: Bachelors Degree is required, MBA or further advanced degree is desirable Other N/A

Required Years of Related Experience: Min 3+ years Other N/A

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Uncompromised requirements for the role):

(Include Any Required Computer Skills, Certifications, Licenses, Languages, Etc.)

• Experience in demand planning, supply chain planning or integrated business planning — experience with healthcare/FMCG products preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to run IBP/S&OP cadences at country or cluster level and translate commercial inputs into demand plans.
• Hands-on experience with planning systems (SAP IBP, Kinaxis, Oracle Demantra or equivalent) and strong Excel/data analysis skills.
• Proven stakeholder management and communication skills; comfortable engaging with commercial leaders, clinical stakeholders and distributors.
• Experience supervising or mentoring planners and coordinating cross-market planning activities.
• Eligible to live and work in India.

Travel on the Job

Indicate whether this position requires travel.

Yes

Percentage Travel

10 %

Type Of Travel Required

Domestic (APAC)

International

People Management Experience

Indicate whether supervisor/people management experience is required.

No

Required Years Of People Management Experience

NA

Preferred Qualifications

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Preferred Minimum Education: Bachelors or Equivalent Other N/A

Preferred Area of Study: BS/BA in an applicable field of study; advanced degree is preferred, MBA a plus

Preferred Related Industry Experience (if applicable): Life Sciences, MedTechnology, FMCG

Preferred Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

(Include any preferred computer skills, certifications, licenses, languages, etc or abilities that are assets to performing in the role.)

• Prior experience working across India and ASEAN markets; knowledge of market dynamics, tender cycles and distributor models in these geographies.
• Exposure to Power BI / Tableau or scripting (Python/R) for automation and advanced analytics.

Key Working Relationships

Identify the most important working relationships with people inside and outside the company including customers, vendors, associations, etc. Briefly describe the nature of the contacts.

Internal

• Commercial: Country Sales, Distributor Services, Clinical & Medical Affairs (EP BU)
• Supply & Logistics: Supply Planning, Distribution, Quality & Regulatory
• Finance: Country/Cluster Finance, FP&A
• Regional: Senior Manager EP Planning, Regional IBP leads, Global Planning/Category teams

External

• Distributors and 3PL partners in India and SEA
• Hospital procurement and EP lab clinical champions

Supervisory Responsibilities

List number of employees reporting to this position, both directly and through direct reports.

Direct/Indirect Reports

• NA

Decision Making Authority – Check all appropriate decision-making authority level for this position.

Makes hiring recommendations

Makes hiring decisions

Trains employees

Plans work of others

Reviews work quality and quantity of others

Conducts performance reviews

Determines resource allocation

Makes pay and promotional recommendations

Makes pay and promotional decisions

Resolves employee grievances

Makes termination recommendations

Makes termination decisions

Recommends budget amounts

Makes budget decisions

Required Skills

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Savvy, Data Analysis, Data Savvy, Demand Forecasting, Demand Planning, Developing Others, Inclusive Leadership, Inventory Optimization, Leadership, Manufacturing Flow Management, Predictive Modeling, Profit and Loss (P&L) Management, Project Support, Report Writing, Supply Planning, Team Management