Integrated Business Planning; IBP Lead/Manager Jobs in North York, Canada at Apotex
Title: Integrated Business Planning; IBP Lead/Manager
Company: Apotex
Location: North York, Canada
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Position: Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Lead/Manager
Location: North York
About Apotex Inc.
Apotex is a Canadian-based global health company. We improve everyday access to affordable, innovative medicines and health products for millions of people worldwide, with a broad portfolio of generic, biosimilar, innovative branded pharmaceuticals and consumer health products. Headquartered in Toronto, with regional offices globally, including in the United States, Mexico and India, we are the largest Canadian-based pharmaceutical company and a health partner of choice for the Americas for pharmaceutical licensing and product acquisitions.
Job Summary
Reporting to the Director, Global Demand Planning (GDP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP), the IBP Manager/Lead is responsible for the development and management of supporting systems and tools used in the GDP and IBP processes, including adherence to all corporate controls,governance and opportunities identification to enhance the quality and timeliness of the global demand plan.
The role represents the Supply chain planning as the global forecasting (SAP IBP) tool steward, generates and publishes reports on all IBP, material load changes and variances and KPI’s in a timely fashion for proper escalation to management to drive decision making and best practice behaviours in demand planning.
This role involves cross-functional collaboration with various team including Commercial Operations, Corporate Finance, and Global Supply Planning in the exchange of data to support the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.
Job Responsibilities
The IBP Lead/Analyst will provide subject matter expertise in all tools leveraged to support forecasting, and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes .
Lead the implementation of new IBP tools and methodologies, providing training and support to cross-functional teams. Continuously evaluate and refine the usage if SAP IBP to enhance efficiency, data quality, and decision-making capabilities for all markets.
Analyzes complex, large datasets to uncover trends, build predictive models, and provide actionable insights for business decisions.
Track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to demand accuracy & bias and supply chain efficiency, identifying areas for improvement.
Serve as lead data strategist to identify and integrate new datasets that can be leveraged through our product capabilities, and work closely with the engineering team in the development of data products.
Continuously evolve and own the IBP central & releated reports development & maintainenece ensuring it is always the one source of truth.
Works collaboratively with commercial and finance stakeholders to consolidate data to create global demand plans within the IBP tool for presentation in the Demand Review meetings.
Develop, generate and publish relevant demand/forecasting metrics on a monthly basis and provides analytical insights. Lead or support monthly metrics review meetings as required.
Support the Director and AD, Global Demand Planning and IBP with the aggregation of demand plans to create a single, accurate and timely Global demand plan that is endorsed by senior management.
Partners with demand planners across various commercial teams to ensure adherence to the process, tracking changes, escalating issues and instilling the governance for the maintenance of the material load.
Act as the demand forecasting SME, works with the demand planners to assess and redesign current forecasting processes to improve forecast accuracy performance.
Attend and lead key meetings necessary related to demand planning activities.
Support the integration of New Product Launch requirements into the Demand Plan using exisiting tools and systems systems.
Provide support on projects, strategic initiatives or decisions related to demand planning & IBP.
Enures that the IBP team owns all master data elements owned by the Global Demand Planning Team.
Leverage multiple data sources to generate adhoc reports and provide insight based on the requirements requested from management.
Job Requirements
Education Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in statistics, engineering, applied mathematics,…
