### **Summary** Ensure, support, and maintain the Sales \& Business Planning (S\&BP) process, fostering collaboration among key areas (commercial, marketing, finance, supply, quality, regulatory). Work jointly with the Marketing and Commercial teams to consolidate medium\- and long\-term demand forecasts (12 to 36 months) that inform manufacturing capacity plans and inventory investment decisions. Identify market trends and regulatory environment changes that may impact future demand (e.g., changes in INVIMA regulations, expiration of sanitary registrations). Support safety stock and service level definitions aligned with the company’s commercial and regulatory strategy. Participate and collaborate in the design of product launch strategies, transfers, and discontinuations, ensuring proper alignment with the supply chain. ### **About the Role** **Key Responsibilities:** * Support and sustain the Sales \& Business Planning (S\&BP) process, ensuring collaboration between key areas (sales, marketing, finance, supply, quality, regulatory). * Work together with the Marketing and Sales teams to consolidate medium and long\-term demand forecasts (12 to 36 months) that feed manufacturing capacity plans and investment decisions in inventories. * Identify market trends and the regulatory environment that may impact future demand (changes in INVIMA regulations, expiration of health registrations, etc.). * Support safety inventory levels and service levels according to the company's commercial and regulatory strategy. Participate and collaborate in the design of product launch strategies, transfers, and discontinuations, ensuring correct alignment with the supply chain. * Lead portfolio segmentation to define planning priorities (critical products, high runners, low margin, etc.). * Analyze and make decisions based on sales, marketing, and health regulation information to prepare monthly and quarterly forecasts adjusted to business reality, working together with areas such as marketing and sales. * Analyze deviations between forecast and actual consumption (forecast accuracy / bias) and propose corrective actions. * Coordinate with international manufacturing lead times of production, dispatch dates, and shipping windows. Define and maintain planning parameters in the ERP or planning system (MRP settings) such as MOQ, transit time, purchase batch size, etc. * Manage the demand planning process by channel (hospital, retail, institutional) and by presentation (pharmaceutical form, packaging). * Monitor compliance with the import plan and its alignment with repackaging plans. Collaborate on the creation of the monthly SKU x channel forecast of the country based on the construction carried out together with the business. * Load the forecast into the planning system and launch purchase/import orders according to the approved plan, aligned with the systems established by the company RR/SAP. **Main requirements:** * Indispensable management and data analysis, statistical models, and Office Tools. * Essential experience in SAP and S4Hanna. * Intermediate English. * Excellent interpersonal relationships, conflict resolution, analytical thinking, \* teamwork, communication, and results orientation. **Why Novartis:** Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people\-and\-culture **Join our Novartis Network:** Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network **Benefits and Rewards:** Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits\-rewards Division Finance Business Unit CTS Location Colombia Site Bogota (Pharmaceuticals / GDD / NTO / CTS) Company / Legal Entity CO01 (FCRS \= CO001\) Novartis de Colombia S.A Functional Area Marketing Job Type Full time Employment Type Regular Shift Work No