Market Planner within Supply Chain

Baxter International; Ireland; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company in Ireland is seeking a Demand Planner to join their Supply Chain team. This role involves defining and supporting materials management, overseeing logistics operations, and collaborating with vendors. Ideal candidates will have 3-5 years of experience, strong analytical and negotiation skills, and proficiency in SAP and Excel. The position emphasizes adaptability and organizational skills, supporting a dynamic work environment with competitive benefits.

Benefits

Competitive total compensation package

Professional development opportunities

High importance on work-life balance

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in a similar role.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Dynamic, enthusiastic, and level-headed personality.

Responsibilities

• Process supply management tasks and support warehouse management.
• Liaise with logistics and customer service.
• Monitor daily order activity and ensure supply commitments are met.

Skills

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal flexibility

Organizational skills

Problem-solving skills

Spreadsheet skills

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

This is whereyour work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride.

Overall Purpose of the role

This is an exceptionally unique opportunity to join Baxter Healthcare Corporation's Supply Chain team as a Demand Planner. You will play a pivotal role in defining and supporting materials management, warehousing, and customer services processes for both new and existing business. Your expertise will help drive flawless execution of logistics operations, ensuring that our supply management and vendor interactions are streamlined and efficient. As a key player in New Product Introductions, you will actively contribute to the successful implementation of lean principles, driving efficiencies across the materials area.

Principal Duties / Responsibilities

Your role involves accurately processing supply management tasks, supporting warehouse management, monitoring material availability, and addressing exceptions. You will also liaise with logistics and customer service, support NPI and lean initiatives, and maintain/report metrics.

Communication

• Collaborate with other departments and managers to resolve issues, including Customer Service and Logistics.
• Maintain regular communication with vendors to ensure flawless operations.
• Support internal and external customers and team members regarding issues, advancing them as appropriate.
• Provide proactive and informative feedback on supply chain interruptions or situations that affect customer support and satisfaction.
• Continually work to improve quality, delivery, and costs through programs that enhance the overall quality of vendors by clearly defining requirements.
• Review open requirements, monitor vendor performance, and expedite where necessary.
• Assure that problems relating to delivery and quality are promptly conveyed to the vendor and resolved in a timely manner.
• Analyse and adjust inventory levels to align with lead time changes in collaboration with the global planning team.
• Monitor daily order activity and take appropriate action to ensure supply commitments are met. Update supplier forecasts (internal & external).
• Verify orders and communicate requirements to suppliers. Undertake daily reconciliation of receipts with suppliers and ensure timely resolution of all receiving discrepancies.
• Support all activities for the market driven by change controls, import license registration, new product launches, product phase outs, etc. Time will be spent understanding the product set‑up, product registration, operation processes, and market demand.
• Identify and complete improvement projects looking for inventory levels optimization.
• Complete monthly reserve proposal, identify and communicate opportunities for discard avoidance and follow through the opportunities to ensure they are completed.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate should have 3-5 years of experience in a similar role. Strong analytical skills, excellent negotiation and communication skills, and confidence in dealing with colleagues at all levels and external vendors are essential. The role requires the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities. A dynamic, enthusiastic, and level‑headed person is needed for this job. The work environment is dynamic, requiring adaptability, flexibility, prioritization, organization, and time management skills.

• Demonstrated interpersonal flexibility and strong team skills.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to plan and manage your own work effort.
• Demonstrated capability to make sound decisions and a track record of prioritizing results and maintaining high standards of quality.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities. Evidence of research and problem‑solving skills.
• Proficient keyboard and computer skills, including excellent knowledge of Excel and MS Word, or equivalent spreadsheet and word processing applications.
• Knowledge of SAP or similar order management and processing systems.
• Numerate and accurate, particularly in relation to data entry, document processing, and data integrity.
• Normal business hours are Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5:30 pm. Flexibility around these hours is required as the business serves markets in various time zones.
• Required to travel to visit other sites and attend regional/international meetings.

What are some of the benefits of working at Baxter?

• Competitive total compensation package
• Professional development opportunities
• High importance placed on work‑life balance

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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