Demand Planner
Valneva, France

Valneva is a specialty vaccine company focused on the development, manufacturing and commercialization of prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases with significant unmet medical need. The Company takes a highly specialized and targeted approach to vaccine development and then applies its deep understanding of vaccine science to develop prophylactic vaccines addressing these diseases. Valneva has leveraged its expertise and capabilities both to commercialize three vaccines and to rapidly advance a broad range of vaccine candidates into and through the clinic, including candidates against the chikungunya virus and Lyme disease.

The Commercial Demand Planner will be the focal point of the relationship between sales, production, supply chain, finance and marketing departments.

He/she will make sure market needs are met on time in full, taking into account supply constraints and Company’s inventory targets. He/she will do his/her best to exploit and mitigate scrap risk and stockouts.

He/she will generate reports and metrics to best update sales forecast, share the most realistic demand planning, closely work with site to size supply plans and attend monthly SnOP meetings

He/she will also be a member of key Project Teams including SOX (Audit/QA requirements), New product or supplier introduction and continuous improvement.

Main responsibilities of this role:

1. Drive the SnOP process from countries: data consolidation, data analysis, updating of global demand plan and translating into a revised supply plan. Present an updated and realistic monthly SnOP plan + metrics to respective governance bodies

2. Using historical sales data, work closely with Valneva’s country managers to analyze sales forecast trends and estimate future product demand

3. Update and monitor SnOP KPIs such as sales forecast accuracy, inventory level, scrap risks so to drive the demand planning the most effective way

4. Work with Valneva’s and 3PP supply planners to optimize demand, inventory level and supply plan, in accordance with company’s objectives

5. Monitor and report on material variances vs budget/ forecast. Address demand-related issues in a timely and effective manner and support management with risk assessments and mitigation plan

6. Follow up any risk of stock out situation or scrap risk and take best mitigate actions

7. Attend monthly SnOP meetings (Demand, Supply, Operations)

8. Attend monthly COMC (commercial/finance) and SOC (Supply/finance/RA/commercial) meetings

9. Collect and analyze sales forecast data to monthly update the LBE used for finance review and demand planning

10. Built a new forecasting tool using in markets market sales data, Actuals, travelers market insights, seasonality, product profile (NPI, routine)

11. Build scenario vs multiple assumptions (market growth, competition, NPI, supply constraints)

12. Built strong relationship with country managers, regulatory, finance, supply chain and quality

Requirements

Education / Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain or other relevant fields.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a demand planning/forecasting role.
• Solid understanding of inventory management practices and procedures.
• Strong mathematical and statistical knowledge.
• Capability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Required Skills:

• Analytical skills (data and facts), Competency to use software (create spreadsheets, reports, presentation)
• Work with mitigation plans
• Facilitator, Problem solving
• Negotiation skills
• Project management
• Business and financial acumen
• Supply chain management
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Results oriented
• Project management
• Good and effective communication (presentation, network, project)
• Proactive
• Openminded
• Improvement suggestion mindset
• SOX process understanding
• Continuous improvement (process, tools), change management

Job Rewards and Benefits