Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Demand Planning & Integrated Planning Leadership 

• Define the strategic vision, governance model, and operating framework for Demand Planning and Integrated Business Planning across AIS. 

• Establish enterprise planning principles, standards, and performance expectations that drive consistency, transparency, and accountability across regions, business units, and functions. 

• Ensure alignment of long-range strategic plans, annual operating plans, demand forecasts, and execution priorities through an integrated planning approach. 

• Drive enterprise adoption of planning disciplines that support proactive decision-making and business performance management. 

• Serve as the senior advisor to executive leadership on demand, market trends, planning risks, and business implications. 

Executive Business Performance & Decision Support 

• Lead executive planning reviews that facilitate timely decisions on business priorities, capacity, inventory, investment, and customer commitments. 

• Translate demand, supply, financial, and market signals into actionable insights and strategic recommendations for executive leadership. 

• Develop scenario planning and risk assessment processes that allow leaders to evaluate trade-offs and make informed decisions under uncertainty. 

• Enable greater visibility to business performance drivers and emerging risks through data-based planning intelligence and reporting. 

Enterprise Forecasting & Demand Excellence 

• Lead the development of an integrated demand planning strategy that improves forecast quality, responsiveness, and organizational alignment. 

• Drive alignment around a single demand signal by integrating commercial inputs, market intelligence, customer trends, and operational constraints. 

• Establish key performance indicators, governance mechanisms, and management routines that improve planning effectiveness and forecast performance. 

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement through structured analysis of forecast performance, assumptions, and planning outcomes. 

Financial & Strategic Alignment 

• Partner closely with Finance leadership to ensure demand plans support revenue, margin, inventory, and cash flow objectives. 

• Strengthen the connection between operational plans and financial commitments by improving planning transparency and business accountability. 

• Enable enterprise evaluation of growth opportunities, supply constraints, and investment decisions through integrated scenario analysis. 

• Ensure planning processes support strategic priorities while balancing short-term performance objectives and long-term business goals. 

Planning Transformation & Digital Innovation 

• Lead the modernization of planning processes through advanced analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, and digital planning technologies. 

• Establish a multi-year roadmap that advances planning maturity and improves organizational responsiveness to changing market conditions. 

• Drive adoption of predictive insights and enhanced planning tools to improve decision quality and speed. 

• Partner with Digital and Analytics teams to strengthen planning data quality, visibility, and enterprise reporting capabilities. 

Cross-Functional Enterprise Leadership 

• Build strong partnerships across Commercial, Operations, Finance, Product Management, Manufacturing, Fulfillment, and Supply Chain organizations. 

• Drive alignment to common assumptions, priorities, and measures of success across the enterprise. 

• Influence leaders at all levels to adopt standardized planning practices and enterprise-first decision making. 

• Foster collaboration across global teams to improve planning integration, performance, and execution. 

Talent & Organizational Leadership 

• Lead and develop a high-performing global team responsible for enterprise demand planning and planning excellence. 

• Dotted line leadership for demand planning leaders across the AIS sub-segments 

• Build organizational strength through succession planning, leadership development, and capability enhancement. 

• Create an environment that encourages innovation, accountability, analytical thinking, and continuous learning. 

• Serve as a champion for enterprise planning excellence and operational rigor across AIS. 

Qualifications & Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s/MBA preferred 

• Demonstrated experience in supply chain, planning, finance, or operations in a global organization 

• Deep expertise in IBP, S&OE, and integrated planning, with experience building and scaling enterprise capabilities 

• Proven experience leading and developing global teams, including leaders of leaders, with accountability for performance, capability building, and scaling organizational effectiveness across regions and functions 

• Proven experience leading enterprise transformation initiatives, including systems, analytics, and process standardization 

• Demonstrated ability to influence executive leadership and drive enterprise-wide alignment without direct authority 

• Strong business and financial acumen, with experience linking operational plans to financial outcomes 

• Track record of improving enterprise performance (OTD, inventory, forecast accuracy, working capital) through capability building 

• Experience embedding Lean, governance, and operating disciplines at scale 

• Healthcare or regulated industry experience preferred 

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