Global Planning Leader: S&OP & Inventory Excellence

STAAR Surgical Company; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

STAAR Surgical Company is seeking a Senior Planning Leader responsible for end-to-end planning across S&OP, RCCP, MPS and MRP to ensure product availability and optimal inventory worldwide. You will lead a global team and collaborate with manufacturing sites Nidau and Monrovia as well as external suppliers to secure reliable material flow.

The role requires extensive experience in supply chain planning, strong leadership, and hands-on process design capabilities.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent as a minimum.
• Special Knowledge: Supply Chain planning design, deployment and modeling.
• Personal skills: pragmatic, team leadership, analytical thinking, hands-on approach, decisiveness, organizational sensitivity, initiative, resilience.
• Professional Experience: Leadership experience in supply chain or planning roles, demonstrated success to improve the most critical planning metrics.
• Language: English, German/French is an additional advantage.
• Systems: Experience in deploying Oracle or SAP/APO, or other ERP solutions with additional best-in-class advanced planning solutions.
• Process: demonstrated experience in planning process (re)-design and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy best-in-class planning strategies and processes to ensure product availability in support of the defined service level targets.
• Lead a team with full accountability for end-to-end planning, including S&OP, Strategic Capacity Planning, Inventory Management, Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning and Production Planning.
• Develop and deploy a global S&OP process.
• Drive globally the demand planning process and adjust forecasts accordingly.
• Manage RCCP, MPS and MRP based on demand forecasts from business regions.
• Collaborate with Nidau and Monrovia manufacturing sites and external suppliers to ensure reliable material supply.
• Optimize inventory levels and enforce policies to meet service targets and working capital goals.
• Talent development: recruit, train and guide a high performing planning team.

Skills

Supply chain planning

Leadership

Forecasting

Data analysis

S&OP

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Oracle

SAP/APO

ERP systems

Job description

STAAR Surgical Company is seeking a Senior Planning Leader responsible for end-to-end planning across S&OP, RCCP, MPS and MRP to ensure product availability and optimal inventory worldwide. You will lead a global team and collaborate with manufacturing sites Nidau and Monrovia as well as external suppliers to secure reliable material flow.

The role requires extensive experience in supply chain planning, strong leadership, and hands-on process design capabilities.