Planning Specialist - 1 Year Contract (No Bond)

Hiring for Supply Chain Planning Specialist for Pune location!!

Strong in Advance Excel is Mandatory

Client: Fortune 50 MNC into Innovative Medicine (pharmaceuticals) and Medical Technology

Location : Pune, Viman Nagar

Exp: 3 Plus Years of relevant Experience

Tenure : 1 year contract through Randstad Payroll
Timing : General Shift
Mode: Hybrid 3 Days WFO

Interview Rounds: 2-3 Rounds

Contact Details

Email :- [email removed]
Phone :- [phone removed]

Job Description: Planning Specialist

Purpose: Support surgical planning, supply chain coordination, and operational execution by ensuring timely availability of inventory, accurate planning, stakeholder alignment, and data-driven decision-making

Key Responsibilities
• Lead the activities related to the business operations at Asia Pacific & Global level weekly, monthly, quarterly data refresh activities; manage delivery of business insight packages to stakeholders
• Coordinate with Global and APAC markets for system readiness and setups
• Work with internal stakeholders to ensure and improve the data quality, data alignment and data dictionary for reporting and automation
• Identify and document operations processes and drive solution optimization
• Should be able to maintain system hygiene, set up masters data, conduct DQT for accurate and reliable system output. Drive planning system adoption.
• Should have working knowledge to Data lakes and Data warehouses. Be able to set up ETL operations for planning reports and data governance. Ability to manage and interpret large datasets and translate into business insights. Also have knowledge system interfaces or multi system data flows.
• Accountable for SC performance metrices (Forecast accuracy, customer service and cashflow) targets. Should be able to derive insights, identify risks and take actions for performance improvements.
• Participate monthly Demand Planning cycles across APAC markets, including baseline generation and Market Intelligence alignments. Support Integrated Business Planning (IBP) forums as per need.
• Participate in short term exception management/STEM forums with markets to ensure customer service and supply reliability. Action corrective measures. Conduct inventory entitlement and safety stocks set ups for markets

Qualifications & Skills Required
• 2 .5 plus Years of relevant experience, A minimum of 2 years relevant Data handling and analytics required
• Proven ability to synthesize data, interpret data, and process observations into actionable
recommendations.
• STEM Graduates or Postgraduates with expertise in Business/Data Analytics or related field
• Knowledge/Certifications in Supply chain preferred, experience in supply chain planning & operations and systems
Digital Skills
• Proficient in MS Office, (Advance Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Digital & Automation tools: Python, Power BI and any other automation tools like KNIME, Alteryx desired

Familiarity with AI-assisted productivity tools (e.g., Copilot, other LLMs)