Senior Supply Planner

Location: Cork

Job Description Summary

In this role, you will manage the end-to-end planning process for GE HealthCare products, ensuring customer demand is met while maintaining optimal inventory levels and balancing supply chain priorities. You will work cross-functionally with Demand Planning, Customer Service, Production, Packaging Operations, and Logistics teams to proactively identify and resolve capacity constraints and supply chain bottlenecks.

You will play a key role in driving service excellence by balancing short-term priorities with long-term business objectives, using data and insights to make informed planning decisions. Success in this role means achieving and exceeding customer service targets, optimizing inventory performance, and effectively managing supply and demand across the GE HealthCare supply chain.

As a senior member of the planning team, you will also have the opportunity to lead, mentor, and support fellow planners, helping to drive continuous improvement and strengthen planning capabilities across the organization.

Responsibilities

Manage master planning, material processes and systems, prepare and update production schedules and purchasing needs. Ensure operational alignment with production plan and KPIs. Optimize inventory and process improvements.

Prepare manufacturing plan that supports the supply timelines required by our customer whilst balancing inventory levels and operational efficency of site assets. Tracks progress, readjusts schedules and communicates changes to affected stakeholders, whilst actively mitigating impact and resolving any product supply and/or customer service issues

In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

Forecast sales and production needs for short, medium, and long term ensuring product availability and inventory optimization.

Lead continuous improvement initiatives to optimise service, inventory and cost.

Coordinate the monthly S&OP process, facilitating cross-functional meetings with Operations, Supply Planning and Finance to create a unified, achievable plan

Strong collaboration with stakeholders to integrate new products, capacity, projects, etc. changes into the S&OP process

Maintain SAP & Maestro planning parameters to ensure data integrity

Maintain and report on relevant Supply Chain KPI’s including plant inventories, backorders, and stockouts. Drive corrective actions to get back on track where necessary

Compiles, analyzes and presents non-routine information to support Supply Chain activities and to assist with decision making– e.g. inventory levels, inventory positioning, material deliveries, planned master production schedule, S&OP and sales forecasts

Develop robust processes that support and enhance the planning function

Establish and maintain positive working relationships across the Site and Supply Chain. Negotiates and monitors levels of service or performance provided, communicates and actions areas of concern to resolve issues.

Implement technical solutions to enhance data analysis and decision-making.

Required Qualifications