[MedTech] Supply Chain Planning, EP, Integrated Supply Chain

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Job Function:
Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:
Integrated Business Planning

Job Category:
Professional

All Job Posting Locations:
Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Job Description:

The Consumable Planning Specialist - Japan is responsible for demand and inventory planning for the consumable portfolio in Japan, including capital systems, procedure-driven consumables, instruments, and service/spare parts.

Based in Japan, this role partners closely with Commercial (Hospital Sales, Clinical Affairs, Service Ops, Distributor Services), Supply Planning, Manufacturing, and Finance to create accurate, executable demand plans that support installations, procedures, clinical adoption, and high service availability.

The specialist contributes to the IBP / S&OP process, supports launch readiness, and drives improvements in forecast accuracy, installed-base analytics and spare-parts availability.

The role's scope of responsibilities include:


* Generate and maintain statistical and consensus demand forecasts for consumable SKUs.


* Consolidate commercial inputs (sales orders, distributor forecasts, procedure schedules, promotions, tenders) into a single demand plan and update regularly.


* Support IBP / S&OP activities: prepare demand packs, run local demand reviews, document assumptions and follow up on actions.


* Forecast consumption tied to installed-base and procedure volumes; collaborate with Service Ops and Clinical teams to model usage rates and adoption curves.


* Manage inventory-related risks: expiry, lot traceability, consignment balances and allocation for constrained SKUs.


* Support launch planning: create demand scenarios, validate initial stocking needs, coordinate staging and allocations with supply.


* Perform root-cause analysis on forecast variance and implement corrective actions to reduce MAPE and bias.


* Produce regular and ad-hoc reporting (forecast vs.

actual, inventory days, service risk, distributor fill rates) and present insights to stakeholders.


* Improve planning efficiency through data quality initiatives and automation.


* Engage with distributors, 3PLs and hospital procuremen...