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About the Role
The Supply Chain Planning Manager - Japan will lead the Japan Demand Planning team and serve as the key liaison between commercial, financial, and supply chain stakeholders. The role is responsible for translating business intelligence into actionable demand plans and driving corrective action when performance or availability is at risk.
Responsibilities
- Lead demand planning across the full Medtronic portfolio in Japan and develop account- and brand-specific forecasts for the S&OP process.
- Integrate replenishment, point-of-sale, promotional, marketing, capacity, product lifecycle, and new product launch inputs into the demand plan.
- Improve forecast accuracy by selecting appropriate statistical methods, maintaining demand history, managing promotional demand, and identifying demand patterns.
- Partner with Finance, Marketing Intelligence, Sales, Marketing, R&D, Supply Planning, and Japan leadership to align commercial intelligence and planning assumptions.
- Analyse capacity and network requirements; support promotions, key events, new product launches, and network redesign initiatives; monitor key S&OP performance indicators and drive corrective actions.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Japan Demand Planning team while building strong cross-functional partnerships and influencing availability decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience in demand planning, supply planning, or a closely related planning role.
- Strong interpersonal, stakeholder-management, and communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional and commercial stakeholders.
- Strong analytical capability and practical experience applying statistical forecasting and demand-planning methods.
Skills
- Blue Yonder
- Power BI
- Excel
- Microsoft 365
Location
- Tokyo, Japan
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Regular full time
Experience Level
- Manager
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
Benefits
- Up to 360,000 yen per year in childcare subsidies
- Six weeks of leave for family members who require nursing care or for adoption
- Babysitter and nursery school matching services
- Career development, including mentor programmes and e-learning
- Internal career network to support women's advancement
- Employee stock purchase programme
- Commuting allowance, overtime allowance, holiday work allowance, etc.
- Annual paid leave, sick leave, menstrual leave, maternity leave, etc.
- Short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP)
About the Company
- Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.
- Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year.
- Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
Equal Opportunity
- Apply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official @medtronic.com email addresses.
- Medtronic will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information (such as bank account or Social Security details) during early stages of the hiring process. Any such requests are not legitimate.
- If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Medtronic, do not respond, click links, or open attachments.
- If you have any questions, concerns regarding the authenticity of a communication alleged to have been made by or on behalf of Medtronic, please contact us immediately at AskHR@medtronic.com.