This is where you make a positive impact on people's lives Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. We are deeply connected by our mission to save and sustain lives. Our work improves outcomes for millions of patients. As a Demand Planner, you will be responsible for producing a collaborative demand signal throughout the North American operation that will drive manufacturing, distribution, and provide a baseline for financial planning. Your role at Baxter - Develop a single unconstrained collaborative demand signal with the MPT business segment - Drive a monthly sales/Op forecast alignment process to assess gaps between sales and operations and drive understanding for rationale of gaps - Develops appropriate action plans to improve forecast accuracy - Interface with commercial teams to capture business intelligence over and above historical demand - Develop statistical forecast models, analyze historical demand and incorporate any known qualitative information (i.e. anticipated market changes, seasonality, trends, etc) to obtain best fit forecast that balances the need for customer service and a return on inventory investment. - Interface with supply planning team to understand over/under consumed forecast ad track business intelligence included in forecast - Align our operational forecast with out financial forecast in working with out finance team - Lead cross functional monthly planning rhythm - Facilitate monthly consensus meetings with cross functional leaders (commercial reviews with marketing and senior leadership meetings), set targets, high impact agenda, compile inputs from stakeholders across the business. Monthly review with Senior leadership team - Support issue identification (Supply constraints, available capacity) and initiate cross functional resolution- coach and support to ensure comprehensive, fact based decisions. - Co-lead and participate in globally driven Demand and Supply IBR's.