[asia] Senior Planner

Company Description
**Santen is a specialized life sciences company with a proud 130-year heritage focused exclusively on ophthalmology. As a Japan-originated, global company with our footprint in over 60 countries, we are dedicated to delivering innovative treatments and digital solutions for eye health and addressing vision-related social issues for people around the world.**

**Purpose of Role**

In our mission to drive product launch execution excellence across the Asia Region, we are looking for a senior "Regional NPI Lead" to cover all Supply Readiness activities aiming to provide patients with access to our products in the shortest possible lead-time.

Essentially, the Senior Planner for Regional Supply Chain Planning & NPI Management has two portfolios
- 1) Regional Supply Chain Planning
2) Regional NPI Management & Supply Readiness Planning

**1) Portfolio I - Regional Supply Chain Planning**

This role is responsible for the management of all aspects of demand and supply planning for all commercial products within the Asia Pacific region. You will analyze sales trends, channel inventory positioning, and work with commercial team (Marketing & Sales) to incorporate Marketing plans & assumptions to estimate future demands. This role will work with local functional team (RA, QA and Finance) and Senior Regional SCM to anticipate and maintain appropriate inventory levels to ensure stable product supply. You are responsible for aggregating demands from respective countries, managing the supply allocation with local CMO, analyzing demand changes in the business to ensure high accuracy of forecast & optimizing inventory level, and supporting the overall business by providing clear visibility on business risks and opportunities during the monthly business planning cycle.

**2) Portfolio II - Regional NPI Management & Supply Readiness Planning**

Responsibilities here include leading and managing NPI launch & supply readiness for/from internal and external sites including Japan, Europe and USA to meet commercial launch goals in Asia countries. This role is responsible to develop a stable and comprehensive product launch portfolio in parallel to product supply and site transfer.

You will be responsible for leading new product introduction activities, tech transfer from inter-site transfer, tech transfer from CMOs to internal plant, site change initiative and ensure supply continuity per business needs. You are responsible to ensure that supply readiness, execution, and delivery of New Product Introductions are in-line with launch timelines and that they adhere to NPI business processes and operations model for Asia business. In addition, you will be responsible to coordinate the execution of cross-functional workstreams from Regulatory, Artwork, Commercial, Corporate Supply Planning and Supply Chain team across Santen regions.

**Job Description**:
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

**DEMAND PLANNING**:

- Work collaboratively with local country Supply Chain and cross-functional teams to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts
- Interface and communicate with Supply Planning team on forecast changes.
- Work with Product Supply teams or Production Planners to understand supply constraints, variations, and impact on demand in Demand/Supply Meeting
- Lead Process Improvement initiatives within Demand Planning including best practices sharing to improve forecast accuracy
- Create and maintain documentation and standard operating procedures for demand planning processes and systems
- Measure Forecast Accuracy and determine Root Causes behind forecast variances as well as communicate and take corrective action, where necessary

**SUPPLY PLANNING**:

- Aggregate demands from countries and allocating supply in accordance with ordering and production rules defined by CMOs in Asia.
- Develop purchase orders and work orders to sites in a timely and efficient manner to assure semi-finished goods are in optimal level to support secondary packaging in RDC
- Create the orders based on supplier’s transportation requirements and purchasing requirements (minimums, lead times, order levels, etc.)
- Issue purchase orders in accordance to manufacturing rules, MOQ and lead times
- Be responsible for order tracking, expedition & fulfillment status
- Develop recovery plans on potential stock-outs due to under-forecasting or late deliveries or change regulatory and artwork timeline
- Maintain replenishment master data to assure efficient and accurate orders
- Manage purchase orders with the logistics & distribution teams

**NPI & LAUNCH EXCELLENCE**:

- Be accountable for accomplishing the stated New Product Introduction objectives and target
- Key project management responsibilities include defining clear and attainable objectives for your portfolio, building the requirements, and managing all elements of New Product Introductions
- Reconcile submission plan vs. marketing forecast for new produ