Integrated Business Planning Demand Lead- Apac, Dental Solutions

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**Purpose of the role**:
The person hired for the position of **Integrated Business Planning Area Demand Leader** will be responsible for developing capabilities (People, Process, Data, and Technology), leading change, and ensuring effective & accelerated implementation of the IBP Portfolio and Demand Review process in the Area. This Area IBP Demand Lead role will be managing the deployment and capability and maturity improvement which will require an experienced professional who is able to facilitate and drive results in a fast paced and demanding growth environment, leveraging his/her strong interpersonal and leadership skills. This role will be challenged to build and implement a world class Integrated Business Planning Portfolio and Demand Review process across the Area to drive value realization by improving demand plan performance accuracy in support of the Dental Solutions**business. Included is the development of an unconstrained, consensus forecast/demand plan over the 5yr horizon. They will own alignment & gap closing action plans and will be responsible to work between all demand generating and demand planning functions to develop consensus plan. They will report into an Area Business Leader.

**Primary Responsibilities** related to the Area Demand Review process include but are not limited to the following:

- Liaises with Marketing, Sales, and Operations to develop and ensure accuracy of the Area unconstrained demand plan.
- Manages multi-faceted connection with strategy, macroeconomic indicators, portfolio management, marketing, end customer sales (POS), key accounts and demand planning.
- Ensures that demand functions are identifying opportunities for business improvement & Growth
- Prepares and facilitates monthly IBP Area Portfolio and Demand Review for Dental Solutions**business.
- Aggregation and alignment of foundational Portfolio plans to area plan
- Deploys and maintains process to gather, quantify, & manage demand assumptions, risks, and opportunities for 5yrs
- Financialization of demand plans and gap analysis to business strategy, OP and QFR targets
- Drives focus for review: plan alignment, month over month changes, gaps & actions to close
- Project management of gap closing action plans within the area
- Deploy and maintain standardized process to gather, quantify, and manage demand assumptions
- Track actual performance to plan and strategy and assess how to improve performance
- Align monthly forecasting processes by gathering and challenging data
- Work to develop a format for a one-page summary output.
- Ensure one-page summaries are produced from each demand review and distributed to the appropriate stakeholders, highlighting changes, risks, opportunities, and issues.
- Ensure changes are analyzed and understood by the demand facilitator and that the responsible demand owners are held to account for the data and challenged on the variances.
- Ensure scenarios are developed and presented to highlight impacts of key drivers, instability, opportunities, and risks.
- Support IBP Integrated Reconciliation, representing demand and discussing impacts of risks/issues and opportunities

**Basic Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited university
- Minimum seven (7) combined years of Business, Finance, Marketing and/or Supply Chain experience
- Must be able to communicate (oral/written) with stakeholders and external parties in China/Taiwan/HK

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Previous experience leading Sales & Operations Planning and/or Integrated Business Planning processes
- Master's degree in business, Finance, or Supply Chain
- Experience leading projects to improve business processes and their integration with strategic or operational business planning
- Working in international, cross-cultural working environments
- Demonstrated knowledge of forecasting technology or ERP systems is preferred, SAP experience a plus
- Influence others and overcome barriers to change (including behavioral/cultural and organizational issues)
- Self-motivated and a good communicator at all levels of the organization
- Experience with data analytical tools for data discovery & modeling, visualization and Analysis
- Experience utilizing process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, or other)

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