Clinical Supply Planning Analytics & Process Consultant

Cognizant; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Cognizant in Foster City, CA seeks an experienced Business Analyst / Functional Consultant to support a Clinical Demand and Supply Planning transformation. You will gather requirements, optimize processes, and support planning solutions across the clinical lifecycle.

You will define future-state processes, dashboards, KPIs, and validation activities for forecasting, inventory, manufacturing, distribution, and reconciliation, collaborating with Clinical Supply Chain, Business, and IT stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience with clinical supply planning tools (Signant SmartSupply, 4C, SAP IBP, Kinaxis) in a regulated environment.
• Strong requirements management and process modeling using Jira/Azure DevOps/Confluence; Visio/Lucidchart.
• Proficient data analysis with Excel/SQL; familiarity with APIs, EDI, middleware, and master data management.
• Deep domain knowledge of clinical trial operations and GMP/GxP guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements; translate to user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate workshops and process discovery across forecast, supply planning, inventory, manufacturing/packaging, distribution, and reconciliation.
• Support solution design for planning platforms and define business rules, workflows, alerts, integration points, and reporting requirements.
• Develop KPIs, dashboards, data requirements; coordinate SIT, UAT, and CSV in GxP / 21 CFR Part 11; support training and adoption.

Skills

Requirements management

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Process modeling

Analytical problem-solving

Communication

Executive presence

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Visio

Lucidchart

BPMN tools

Excel

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Cognizant in Foster City, CA seeks an experienced Business Analyst / Functional Consultant to support a Clinical Demand and Supply Planning transformation. You will gather requirements, optimize processes, and support planning solutions across the clinical lifecycle.

You will define future-state processes, dashboards, KPIs, and validation activities for forecasting, inventory, manufacturing, distribution, and reconciliation, collaborating with Clinical Supply Chain, Business, and IT stakeholders.