Job Description :
Work Schedule
Standard Office Hours (40/wk)
Environmental Conditions
Office
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
DESCRIPTION:
SIOP Manage is responsible for leading the end-to-end Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process for a Thermo Fisher-aligned portfolio within a complex life sciences, diagnostics, laboratory products, or regulated manufacturing environment. This role will drive cross-functional alignment across Commercial, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Quality, and Product Management to develop and maintain a consensus-based operating plan that supports customer service, revenue, inventory, and margin objectives.
The incumbent will own monthly SIOP governance, facilitate decision-making on demand and supply imbalances, manage inventory strategies across the portfolio, and provide executive-level visibility to risks, opportunities, and mitigation actions. The role requires strong analytical capability, business acumen, and the ability to influence in a matrixed organization.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead the monthly SIOP process, including demand review, supply review, inventory review, pre-SIOP, and executive SIOP meetings.
- Partner with Commercial and Product Management teams to translate market intelligence, sales pipeline inputs, promotion plans, installed-base demand, lifecycle events, and regional requirements into a consensus demand plan.
- Collaborate with Supply Planning, Manufacturing, and Distribution to ensure capacity, material availability, and fulfillment strategies support business priorities.
- Establish and manage inventory strategies across finished goods, spare parts and critical consumables and components to balance service levels, shelf-life constraints, working capital, and obsolescence risk.
- Identify and resolve demand-supply gaps through scenario planning, prioritization, and cross-functional decision-making.
- Lead risk assessments and mitigation planning related to supplier constraints, quality events, regulatory changes, product transitions, allocation decisions, and logistics disruptions.
- Present recommendations, trade-offs, and performance updates to senior leadership during executive SIOP reviews.
- Support new product introduction (NPI), product phase-in / phase-out, end-of-life planning, and engineering or regulatory change impacts within the portfolio.
- Ensure planning assumptions, master data, and key inputs are accurate, documented, and aligned across systems and stakeholders.
- Monitor and report key performance indicators, including forecast accuracy, inventory turns, days of supply, service level, backorder, plan adherence, excess and obsolete inventory, and capacity utilization.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve planning discipline, planning system usage, process efficiency, and portfolio performance.
- Serve as the primary cross-functional point of contact for portfolio-level planning decisions and escalations.
Scope and Portfolio Considerations
This role supports a product portfolio aligned to the Thermo Fisher operating environment and may include:
- laboratory instruments and consumables
- analytical and chromatography products
- biosciences, reagents, and chemicals
- diagnostic or clinical product lines
- regulated consumables and aftermarket/service demand
Planning complexity may include:
- high SKU and product family complexity
- global manufacturing and supplier networks
- regulated quality and compliance requirements
- expiration-sensitive or shelf-life constrained inventory
- cold chain, hazardous materials, or controlled distribution considerations
- long-lead or sole-source components
- product lifecycle transitions and innovation pipelines
- installed-base and service-driven replenishment demand
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, or related field.
- 7-10 years of relevant experience in SIOP, S&OP, integrated business planning, demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, or related supply chain functions.
- Experience in life sciences, diagnostics, medical devices, laboratory products, specialty chemicals, or another regulated and operationally complex industry.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional planning processes and driving consensus across matrixed teams.
- Strong understanding of demand planning, inventory optimization, supply planning, capacity planning, and business trade-off management.
- Experience analyzing and presenting planning data, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Proficiency in ERP and planning systems, as well as advanced Excel and reporting tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience supporting a Thermo Fisher Scientific portfolio or a similar life sciences / laboratory products environment.
- APICS / ASCM certification such as CPIM, CSCP, or CLTD.
- MBA or other advanced degree.
- Experience with SAP, Oracle, Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent planning and analytics tools.
- Knowledge of GMP, FDA, ISO, or other regulated operational frameworks.
- Experience with instrument and consumable demand linkage, distributor demand patterns, and global portfolio planning.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to synthesize large data sets into clear business recommendations.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including executive-level presentations.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and make decisions in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
- Strong understanding of inventory and working capital drivers.
- High level of business partnership and ability to influence without direct authority.
- Continuous improvement mindset with strong process discipline.
Key Performance Indicators
- Forecast accuracy and forecast bias
- Service level / OTIF performance
- Inventory turns and days of supply
- Backorder and past-due order reduction
- Excess and obsolete inventory reduction
- Capacity visibility and plan adherence
- SIOP calendar compliance and action closure
- Revenue support and customer service during constrained supply periods
