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The Market Supply Chain Planner is responsible for planning and executing demand and supply strategies in the Mexico market, leveraging digital tools to identify opportunities and maintain communication with stakeholders. Key duties include demand forecasting, managing S&OP processes, new product launches, and collaborating with various teams for issue resolution.

Also, this planner links local supply chain operations with global digital teams, using business intelligence tools like Tableau, UDH, Supply IQ and BOBJ to ensure information transparency and deliver analytical reports. This role involves project management, cross-functional collaboration, and support for continuous improvement across supply chain activities.

What You Will Achieve

Demand Planning and Supply Management

• Analyze historical sales data, market trends, and customer insights to develop accurate demand forecasts.

• Provide market insights for statistical forecast modeling to automate demand planning where possible in collaboration with Global Demand Intelligence team.

• Conduct monthly brand forecast review meetings to assess accuracy and adjust plans based on root causes of forecast variances.

• Support and/or influence commercial decision-making through a deep understanding of market trend data (such as IQVIA), business, and industry trends in order to provide key insights and create value to the business

• Responsible for the engagement with key customers (first-paying customers, governments…) across the market/s through recurrent platforms (such as GSC/Distributor S&OP) to ensure a better understanding of market trends with a focus on improving performance

• Leverage digital technologies to gather new insights from data and partner with stakeholders to identify/drive upside revenue opportunities and innovative and patient/customer-centric solutions. 

• Partner with the Market Planning Hub to ensure continuous supply and manage supply issues and communicate recovery plans to internal and external stakeholders.

• Challenge the status quo and drive operational excellence through standardizing demand planning and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes. 

• Develop and leverage an in-depth understanding of customer’s operations and sales characteristics, applying these insights to operational and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Accountable for the IMEx (Integrated Manufacturing Excellence -Lean System) ecosystem sustainability in the Process Centric Team (PCT) and serve as point of contact for continuous improvement including best practices sharing and root cause analysis coaching.

• Lead the internal discussions from a GSC perspective in terms of tender management. Identify areas of enhancing tendering process/forecasting.

Sales & Operations Planning

• Lead local S&OP process with cross-functional team participation to ensure mutual accountability, visibility, and alignment on key decisions to ensure supply continuity 

• Leverage the forum as escalation and alignment where support and agreements are made to execute the business financial plans.

Product Lifecycle Management

• Leverage the forum as escalation and alignment where support and agreements are made to execute the business financial plans.

• Actively participate in the development of the patient demand assessment with new product launches by having a better understanding of the disease prevalence, market share and trends

• Responsible for alignment of all Product Changes with MPH and local market teams (Regulatory, Commercial and Finance) to avoid patient impact, secure service levels, and achieve business objectives

• Responsible for alignment of all Product Changes with MPH and local market teams (Regulatory, Commercial and Finance) to avoid patient impact, secure service levels, and achieve business objectives

• Responsible for alignment of all Product Changes with MPH and local market teams (Regulatory, Commercial and Finance) to avoid patient impact, secure service levels, and achieve business objectives

SC Performance Management

• Monitor performance against KPIs (Forecast error, forecast bias, inventory $/MOH, write-offs, statistical forecast adherence, new product launch metrics…)

• Monitor and evaluate inventory levels, sales performance, and market conditions to identify potential risks and opportunities.

• Identify main offenders and continuous improvement projects to improve performance/metrics

Inventory Planning

• Manage obsolescencerisks and identify mitigation plans in alignment with commercial

• Embed continuous optimization of inventory via operational excellence standards

• Maintain optimal inventory levels to meet customer demand; plan and execute inventory replenishment strategies, including reorder points and safety stock levels

Financial

• Engage with commercial/finance partners during OP/LE reviews to provide supply input and align/analyze unit and financial forecasts for budgeting and forecasting purposes (LRVF, Budgets)

• Report monthly supply gaps, risks, recoveries and upsides

• Lead the alignment discussions on the monthly and quarterly revenue landing including the coordination of inputs from Commercial, finance, regulatory.

• Partner with commercial and finance teams to ensure clear rationalization for gaps between unit and financial forecast 

Digital Project Management

• Translate and influence business and functional solution requirements with Supply Chain stakeholders.

• Design, prototype, test and implement global reporting and analytic solution enhancements.

• Work with the Digital organization to industrialize selected solutions or models developed.

• Develop and manage project plans.  Lead projects as required, as well as contribute as a team member to project teams.

• Act as Product Owner & Adoption Lead for specific Pfizer developed platforms, influencing the product design with global process owner, driving the build and testing, and deploying the training to target user communities.

• Train and transfer knowledge to other team members, users and stakeholders as required.

• Implementing and supporting information systems that improve visibility and facilitate the use of supply chain information throughout Pfizer.

• Support Markets, Sites, Center and Regional Colleagues in supply chain business processes and reporting tools education and training initiatives

Here Is What You Need

Technical skills

• BS/BA Degree required. Preferably in the fields of Supply Chain, Logistics Management, Industrial Engineering or alike

• Role/Market Specific: Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in Supply Chain, Planning

• Experience in S&OP process and execution

• Experience leading cross-functional team projects

• Demonstrated business acumen, industry, and product knowledge; including trends, competitive landscape and industry best practices which can impact the business

• Operational Excellence experience

• Experience in Pharma industry is considered an asset

• CPIM or CSCP certification is preferred

• Broad understanding of the supply chain environment.

• Must have strong customer service and total data quality orientation.

• Language: ​English (intermediate-advanced)

 

Soft skills

• Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to interact with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders

• Ability to interpret/ analyze data, draw meaningful conclusions and influence key stakeholders by presenting comprehensive solutions and recommendations.

• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and problem-solving abilities

• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

• Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment with limited directions to complete work assignments accurately and on time, including prioritizing multiple requests for competing projects along with day-to-day customer support.

System and digital

• ·ERP system – SAP and Kinaxis

• Ability to use digital dashboards and programming for data analysis (Tableau, BI, AI, Databases)

• Knowledge and experience using either visualization tools (Tableau, Microstrategy, PowerBI, etc.); analytics tools (Matlab, Alteryx, etc.) 

• Basic knowledge of SQL, Python or R and desire to increase knowledge of analytical languages

• Knowledge and experience in SAP ECC and/or APO and its associated business processes. 

• Proven analytical skills, including technical skills with Business Intelligence platforms (e.g., Microstrategy, SAP BI) preferred.

• Ability dealing with large data sets and the skills to work with them.

Other job details

• Last day to apply: July 2nd, 2026

• Not eligible for Relocation

• Work Location Assignment: Hybrid

EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) & Employment Eligibility 

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, or disability.




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