Manager, Planning Systems & Processes (supply chain)

Alcon MX; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Group insurance

Lunch card

Transportation allowance

Pension plan

Multisport/cultural card

Employee discounts

Job summary

Alcon Warsaw is seeking a Manager, Planning Systems & Processes to optimize end-to-end supply planning and collaborate with global S&OP and manufacturing teams. The role focuses on governance, system configuration, and continuous improvement across the planning tools used by the supply chain function.

You will work in a hybrid environment with global partners, driving analytics, performance metrics, and changes that enable better forecasting and planning for eye-health products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, supply chain, IT, or engineering.
• Broad understanding of supply chain and forecasting/planning in medical devices or related industry.
• Experience with advanced planning systems (SAP IBP, Kinaxis, OMP) and APS expertise.

Responsibilities

• Partner with global S&OP and manufacturing planning teams to optimize end-to-end supply planning.
• Lead system configuration, governance, and performance measurement for planning systems.
• Identify system improvements and collaborate with vendors to assess impact.

Skills

Supply chain knowledge

5+ years experience

Intercultural experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Business Admin / Supply Chain / IT / Engineering)

Tools

SAP IBP

Kinaxis

OMP

Job description

innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us? Manager, Planning Systems & Processes (supply chain) This role is part of Alcon's Supply Chain function, a team that manages logistics, inventory management, and supply chain analytics for Alcon's leading industry to ensure products are delivered efficiently and effectively so that people can see brilliantly at our site in Warszawa, Poland. This is an individual contributor role.

In this role, a typical day will include: Partner with Global S&OP and Manufacturing planning teams to optimize end to end supply planning execution; measure organizational performance, maintain strategy, process, and systems in alignment with the needs of the Alcon Surgical and Aseptic S&OP Franchises. Global alignment of business requirements, processes, governance, and planning system configuration. Provides leadership to incorporate standards and implement network supply‑planning governance across the Alcon Supply Chain. Identify new features/functionality for supply planning systems and determine impact and business value of implementing. Collaborate with software vendor and IT COE to evaluate system upgrades and conduct impact assessment. Serve as supply planning functional subject matter expert for integrating planning system with other internal system(s) like SAP ECC. Collaborate with both surgical and vision care franchises and intercompany stakeholders to assess strategic, tactical, and operational supply planning improvements, unconstrained heuristics/constrained optimization, deployment/allocation, and planning simulation (what-if analysis). Partner with S&OP and manufacturing teams to prioritize the portfolio of business process improvements like converting product replenishment from Pull to Push, rough cut capacity planning, finite scheduling, and obsolescence management by enabling advanced planning system functionalities, Analytics and Future system AI/decision intelligence capabilities. Review and provide recommendations on manufacturing network strategy and optimal configuration of Supply Planning systems to achieve future growth and optimal utilization. Review and prioritize network supply planning system‑related change requests and prepare for Change Advisory Board (CAB) review. Develop business cases for any APS initiative or enhancement. Provide inputs to leadership team to allocate/budget funds for change requests as part of budgeting process. Define education and training needs for network supply planners across the globe to upskill planners and increase supply‑planning maturity. Coach, mentor, and provide guidance to planning analysts as needed. Review User Requirement Specifications (URS) for Planning system and provides final approval. Coordinate testing and provide final signoff in deployment/migration of new functionality. Collaborate with other Global Planning Excellence GPOs and Global Master Data team to provide end‑to‑end strategic direction for planning and planning parameters. Identify and implement key performance indicators for adoption to assess effectiveness of processes and continuously monitor.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO ALCON:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Supply Chain, IT, or Engineering
• Broad understanding of Supply Chain, Forecasting/Planning in Medical Device or related industry
• Any advanced planning system, ex. SAP IBP, Kinaxis, OMP, technically savvy in one APS
• Working with manufacturing plants is essential and global divisions preferred
• Intercultural experience and ability to act in a complex and rapidly changing business environment
• 5 Years of Relevant experience

HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:

Collaborate with teammates to share standard processes and learnings as work evolves! Join Alcon’s mission to provide top‑tier, innovative products and solutions to enhance sight & enhance lives. Grow your career in a highly collaborative and diverse environment.

Attractive benefits package (private medical care, group insurance, lunch card, transportation allowance, pension plan, Multisport/cultural card, Alcon products for you and your significant other) Employment contract, full‑time position Hybrid work (3/2/weekly) Modern office with many facilities inside located at NewCity building, 15 Marynarska Street, Warsaw Alcon Careers See your impact at alcon.com/careers

At Alcon, we are committed to helping people see better. We believe patients should have access to quality eye care regardless of their economic circumstances; however, barriers to good eye health exist for patients in both developed and emerging markets. Alcon develops and manufactures innovative devices to serve the full life cycle of eye care needs. Its surgical group is one of the largest makers of equipment used for cataract removal and laser vision correction. Its consumer products include the well‑known Opti‑Free line of contact lens solutions and related products. Alcon, which was founded in 1945, sells its products in 180 countries worldwide.