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Manager, Planning Systems & Processes (supply chain)
This role is part of Alcon's Supply Chain function, a team that manages logistics, inventory management, and supply chain analytics for Alcon's leading industry to ensure products are delivered efficiently and effectively so that people can see brilliantly at our site in Warszawa, Poland.
This is an individual contributor role.
In this role, a typical day will include:
- Partner with Global S&OP and Manufacturing planning teams to optimize end to end supply planning execution; measure organizational performance, maintain strategy, process, and systems in alignment with the needs of the Alcon Surgical and Aseptic S&OP Franchises.
- Global alignment of business requirements, processes, governance, and planning system configuration.
- Provides leadership to incorporate standards and implement network supply-planning governance across the Alcon Supply Chain.
- Identify new features/functionality for supply planning systems and determine impact and business value of implementing.
- Collaborate with software vendor and IT COE to evaluate system upgrades and conduct impact assessment.
- Serve as supply planning functional subject matter expert for integrating planning system with other internal system(s) like SAP ECC.
- Collaborate with both surgical and vision care franchises and intercompany stakeholders to assess strategic, tactical, and operational supply planning improvements, unconstrained heuristics/constrained optimization, deployment/allocation, and planning simulation (what-if analysis).
- Partner with S&OP and manufacturing teams to prioritize the portfolio of business process improvements like converting product replenishment from Pull to Push, rough cut capacity planning, finite scheduling, and obsolescence management by enabling advanced planning system functionalities, Analytics and Future system AI/decision intelligence capabilities.
- Review and provide recommendations on manufacturing network strategy and optimal configuration of Supply Planning systems to achieve future growth and optimal utilization.
- Review and prioritize network supply planning system-related change requests and prepare for Change Advisory Board (CAB) review.
- Develop business cases for any APS initiative or enhancement.
- Provide inputs to leadership team to allocate/budget funds for change requests as part of budgeting process.
- Define education and training needs for network supply planners across the globe to upskill planners and increase supply-planning maturity.
- Coach, mentor, and provide guidance to planning analysts as needed.
- Review User Requirement Specifications (URS) for Planning system and provides final approval.
- Coordinate testing and provide final signoff in deployment/migration of new functionality.
- Collaborate with other Global Planning Excellence GPOs and Global Master Data team to provide end-to-end strategic direction for planning and planning parameters.
- Identify and implement key performance indicators for adoption to assess effectiveness of processes and continuously monitor.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO ALCON:
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Supply Chain, IT, or Engineering
• Broad understanding of Supply Chain, Forecasting/Planning in Medical Device or related industry
• Any advanced planning system, ex. SAP IBP, Kinaxis, OMP, technically savvy in one APS
• Working with manufacturing plants is essential and global divisions preferred
• Intercultural experience and ability to act in a complex and rapidly changing business environment
• 5 Years of Relevant experience
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON:
- Collaborate with teammates to share standard processes and learnings as work evolves!
- Join Alcon’s mission to provide top-tier, innovative products and solutions to enhance sight & enhance lives.
- Grow your career in a highly collaborative and diverse environment.
- Attractive benefits package (private medical care, group insurance, lunch card, transportation allowance, pension plan, Multisport/cultural card, Alcon products for you and your significant other)
- Employment contract, full‑time position
- Hybrid work (3/2/weekly)
- Modern office with many facilities inside located at NewCity building, 15 Marynarska Street, Warsaw
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, supply chain, IT, or engineering
- Broad understanding of supply chain and forecasting/planning in the medical device or related industry
- Experience with an advanced planning system such as SAP IBP, Kinaxis, or OMP
- Experience working with manufacturing plants
- Intercultural experience and ability to work in a complex, rapidly changing business environment
- Five years of relevant experience
- Experience working with global divisions
Alcon Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Alcon and has not been reviewed or approved by Alcon.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as unusually strong, pairing a 401(k) match with an additional employer-funded retirement plan contribution. Stock purchase access and performance bonuses are also positioned as meaningful components of total rewards.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive across medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental health support. Distinctive vision-related perks, including free contact lenses in some cases, reinforce the perceived strength of the health-and-wellness offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are characterized as robust, including paid holidays, PTO/vacation, paid sick time, and parental leave. Flexible time off for certain exempt roles and reported year-end shutdown periods further strengthen perceived coverage.
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What We Do
Alcon helps people see brilliantly. As the global leader in eye care with a heritage spanning more than seven decades, we offer the broadest portfolio of products to enhance sight and improve people’s lives. Our Surgical and Vision Care products touch the lives of more than 260 million people in over 140 countries each year living with conditions like cataracts, glaucoma, retinal diseases and refractive errors. Our more than 20,000 associates are enhancing the quality of life through innovative products, partnerships with eye care professionals and programs that advance access to quality eye care.
