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That’s what makes us Roche. 

As the Demand Planning & Replenishment Lead for the UK & Ireland,  you will play a key role in helping to deliver Instruments and reagents to our customers and ultimately positively impacting the lives of patients across the country.  Together with the collaboration of commercial and supply Chain stakeholders both locally and within the region, you will help implement and deliver on our Supply Chain strategies and goals.

Your Opportunity

An excellent opportunity has arisen in our UK & Ireland Supply Chain team. The Demand Planning & Replenishment Lead is a key leadership role within the Supply Chain function, helping to create and deliver the Supply Chain strategy in pursuit of our business and functional goals.

The successful candidate will lead a team of experts and take the lead role in ensuring the performance of the Supply Chain against the agreed KPI's within the business including Forecast accuracy, inventory levels and importantly customer OTIF and availability.

This role will use local, regional and Global networks as well as external insight to identify and motivate change to achieve profitability, efficiency and sustainability targets. They will inspire changes to improve OTIF performance to our customers whilst reducing our risks and optimising our cash flow. 

Who you are

Pivotal to the success of the role will be the the effective and efficient management of our forecasting processes and amplifying S&OP in the business

We also expect the role holder to play a key role in the identification, planning and delivery of Supply Chain initiatives including End to End system changes and enhancements, championing the use of new digital technologies as well as being a pioneer in developing collaborative Supply Chain relationships with customers.

We are also passionate about our people and we expect the successful candidate to play an important role in the coaching and development of a diverse and curious team and ensure a culture of trust and transparency

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Our UK Diagnostics business, headquartered in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, employs approximately 560 highly skilled individuals. We provide the industry's broadest range of diagnostics and monitoring products & services, spanning all sectors of the market: from small hand held devices used directly by patients or healthcare professionals, to large diagnostic instruments found in hospital laboratories.

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