Company Overview:

Candela Corporation is a leading global aesthetic device company with a comprehensive product portfolio and a global distribution footprint. We are the market leader in the development, and distribution of medical and aesthetic laser and light-based technologies. The Company's technology enables physicians to provide advanced solutions for a broad range of medical-aesthetic application including hair removal, wrinkle reduction, tattoo removal, improving the skin's appearance through the treatment of benign vascular and pigmented lesions, and the treatment of acne, leg veins and other common indications.

The Company is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA, with an additional R&D facility in Yokneam, Israel and commercial locations across Asia Pacific, and Europe. Products are sold directly in 18 countries worldwide and are supported by capital sales, field service, clinical education, technical support and marketing development organizations. Candela maintains contracted distributors in over 60 other countries.

General Summary

This position is responsible for providing planning and analytical expertise while supporting data driven decision making throughout the Global Planning and Inventory team. The Global Planning Analyst will support the S&OP and demand planning process along with creating visibility to inventory throughout the network through reporting and analytics. This position will partner closely with the global service organization leadership and regional planning leads. In addition, this position with prepare weekly and monthly reports for the ELT and Global Planning leadership.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage the global service parts business through the Sales and Operations Planning process.
• Drive accurate forecasting through a statistical methodology and demand consensus review with subsidiaries on products, parts, and consumable
• Execute global service parts inventory targets through a consistent safety stock management strategy, forecast accuracy improvements and global inventory rebalancing.
• Serve as a liaison to regional planning teams for supply and demand plan inquiries.
• Support the communication of product lead times based on supply-demand to regions.
• Monitor customer backlog and forecast consumption at each subsidiary, root cause and communication with Global Planning, Procurement and Service of any changes of significance.
• Provide input to the organization on planning and inventory strategies for service parts existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
• Partner with the planning teams to optimize the parts flow and inventory to field service engineers.
• Partner with global service teams to forecast and optimize the refurb center parts flow, both component and finished goods.
• Partner with IT and Master Data teams to automate supply chain analytics
• Facilitate inventory allocation decisions for regional backorders as supply becomes available.
• Partner with the procurement team to communicate supply availability updates, develop and update supplier metric and performance reports.
• Maintains global process integrity, templates, tools, and training to maximize effectiveness of Demand Planning process in partnership with Global Planning Leadership.
• Identify and lead improvement projects from charter to execution as necessary.
• Responsible for the development and updating of weekly & monthly KPIs while standardizing approach, process, and tools.
• Collaboratively work across functions and levels in the organization.

Knowledge/Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business or related disciplines
• 5 + years supply chain/operations experience
• Demand planning experience preferred
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills (MS Access a plus)
• Result oriented with strong problem solving and organizational skills
• Excellent communications skills in English, both verbal and written
• Strong team player working collaboratively across functions
• Experience with Enterprise ERP systems (Oracle Cloud Preferred)

Salary Range: $100-110k based on candidate experience

This job description is not all inclusive and is intended to capture a majority of the job functions. Special projects and other tasks may be required by management.