Demand Planner

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Work Schedule Standard Office Hours (40/wk) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. Position Summary  At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. The Demand Planner III plays a critical role in advancing this mission by developing accurate, data-driven demand forecasts that enable effective supply planning and operational execution across global product portfolios.  This role is designed for a highly analytical and collaborative professional who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and is passionate about translating market insights, business trends, and statistical modeling into actionable demand plans. You will partner across Product Management, Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain to drive alignment on demand assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and support business growth objectives.  As a key contributor within the SIOP process, you will bring structure, visibility, and rigor to demand planning activities while driving continuous improvement through Thermo Fisher’s Practical Process Improvement (PPI) business system and exemplifying our 4i Values: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement.    What You Will Do  Forecast Development & Demand Planning  • Develop statistical demand forecasts at product family and SKU level using historical trends, market insights, attach rates, pacing, and business assumptions  • Adjust and refine forecasts based on commercial inputs, product lifecycle changes, and evolving business conditions  • Create and maintain forecasts for new product introductions (NPI), end-of-life (EOL) transitions, and product phase-in/phase-out activities  • Manage regional and market-level forecasts  Forecast Accuracy & Business Insights  • Monitor forecast accuracy and bias across products, regions, and markets to identify trends and improvement opportunities  • Perform root cause analysis on forecast variances including volume, mix, timing, and pricing impacts  • Validate assumptions against actual performance and incorporate learnings into future forecast cycles  • Develop actionable insights to support business decision-making and operational planning  Cross-Functional Alignment & SIOP Integration  • Partner closely with Product Management, Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain teams to align on forecast assumptions, risks, and opportunities  • Facilitate data-driven discussions to reconcile gaps across functional inputs and drive aligned demand plans  • Support the monthly SIOP process through demand review preparation, scenario analysis, and demand plan handoff to supply planning teams  • Document key assumptions, risks, opportunities, actions, and decisions to ensure clear cross-functional alignment  Process Improvement & Digitalization  • Identify opportunities to improve forecasting processes, tools, and data quality  • Support digitalization initiatives including ERP and planning system enhancements  • Raise and prioritize system enhancements and process improvement opportunities to improve forecast accuracy and usability  • Develop and leverage systems (Kinaxis), dashboards, analytics, and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI) to improve visibility and enable data-driven decision making  Le