About this role
Call to Action
Are you ready to unlock your potential? At Straumann Group we’re on an exciting journey of growth, innovation, and impact - driven by our mission to improve oral health and transform millions of lives worldwide. United by purpose, we bring our best selves to work every day, embracing a high-performance, player-learner culture that inspires collaboration, curiosity, and ambition. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to take charge of your own career, harnessing your skills, passion, and enthusiasm for learning to continually grow and progress. Together, we’re not just shaping brighter smiles, we’re unlocking the potential of people everywhere, including our own.
Introduction
Help shape how we plan, connect, and deliver across our global supply chain.
As our Global E2E Supply Chain Planner, you'll play a key role in connecting demand, supply, inventory, and business priorities to enable effective planning and informed decision-making.
Working across assigned Business Units and product portfolios, you'll collaborate with Commercial, Product Management, Finance, Manufacturing, Procurement, and other Supply Chain teams to translate business needs into achievable supply plans.
This is an opportunity to take ownership of complex planning activities, work across diverse products and supply models, and contribute to continuously improving our global planning processes.
Your Role
As Global E2E Supply Chain Planner, you will:
- Drive end-to-end planning: Manage integrated demand, supply, capacity, and inventory planning across assigned Business Units and product portfolios.
- Connect business perspectives: Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to develop demand forecasts that reflect commercial priorities, market developments, and product lifecycle changes.
- Improve forecast quality: Monitor forecast accuracy, identify deviations, and coordinate actions to improve planning reliability.
- Translate demand into supply plans: Develop feasible supply requirements while considering manufacturing capacity, supplier capabilities, material availability, lead times, and inventory needs.
- Anticipate and manage risks: Identify potential supply-demand gaps and develop scenarios and mitigation actions to support business continuity.
- Optimize inventory: Support effective inventory and material planning, addressing shortages, excess stock, obsolescence, and shelf-life considerations.
- Support product transitions: Integrate new product introductions, product transfers, phase-ins, phase-outs, and discontinuations into planning activities.
- Facilitate business alignment: Coordinate Demand Reviews, Supply Reviews, and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes to support informed decisions.
- Drive continuous improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance planning processes, tools, data quality, automation, and cross-functional collaboration.
Your Profile
- A degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- 3-5 years of experience in demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, material planning, procurement, manufacturing operations, or a related supply chain function.
- A solid understanding of end-to-end supply chain planning, including forecasting, inventory management, and product lifecycle planning.
- Experience collaborating across functions in an international business environment.
- Analytical skills, including experience working with complex datasets and planning models.
- Proficiency in Excel and experience using ERP or supply chain planning systems.
- Effective written and spoken business English.
Nice to have:
- Experience with SAP or Anaplan.
- Knowledge of additional languages relevant to international collaboration.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability