As a Senior Planning Specialist, Global Planning, you will play a key role in strengthening and continuously improving Ambu’s global planning capabilities. You will combine data, process expertise and stakeholder collaboration to turn planning information into actionable insights that support better decisions on cost, efficiency, service, and inventory performance.
You will help shape and improve our global planning processes by identifying opportunities, challenging existing ways of working, and translating best practices into scalable solutions. Working closely with stakeholders across Global Supply Chain, you will connect global standards and strategy with effective local execution.
This is more than an analytical role. You will act as a key driver of planning excellence, helping build best-in-class planning processes and enabling smarter, more efficient and resilient ways of working across our global operations.
Key responsibilities
Your mission is to improve our global planning landscape through process excellence, data-driven insights and effective change implementation.
More specifically, your responsibilities will include:
- Process Excellence: Assess and continuously improve global planning processes, identifying opportunities to increase efficiency, standardization and scalability across regions.
- Change & Implementation: Lead and support implementation of new processes, tools and best practices, ensuring effective adoption and sustainable change across the orgnization.
- Stakeholder Partnership: Partner closely with stakeholders across Global Supply Chain to align local execution with global planning standards, processes, and strategic priorities.
- Data & Insights: Transform complex planning data into clear, actionable insights that support global decision-making and improve cost, service and operational performance.
- Performance Management: Develop, maintain and optimize KPIs, reporting and dashboards to monitor planning performance, identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement.
Suggested candidate profile
Skills and experiences can be earned in many different ways, and we understand that the best fit for the role cannot be prescribed on paper. You are however likely to succeed in this position if you:
- Have 5-7+ years of experience within supply chain planning, planning excellence, process improvement, supply chain analytics, S&OP/IBP, or related areas.
- Have solid experience driving process improvements, standardization initiatives, or transformation projects in a complex international supply chain environment.
- Are comfortable translating data and business needs into actionable insights, recommendations, and scalable solutions.
- Thrive in a stakeholder-facing role and have a proven ability to influence and drive change across functions, regions, and organizational levels.
- Combine a strategic mindset with a hands-on approach and enjoy turning ideas and opportunities into tangible improvements.
- Hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Experience from MedTech or another complex, regulated industry is an advantage.
Above all, you bring curiosity, ownership, and a passion for continuous improvement. You are naturally proactive, challenge the status quo constructively, and enjoy collaborating with others to turn insights into tangible business improvements. You are equally comfortable working with detailed analyses and broader strategic initiatives, and you thrive in environments where you can make a visible impact on processes and performance.
Ambu – a visionary and international workplace where your efforts matter
Ambu is a company that expands rapidly and has ambitious growth targets. We meet these targets through interdisciplinary teamwork between motivated and highly skilled employees. Your contributions and efforts are crucial to our success and by joining us you will get the opportunity to work in an international head office with an informal working environment.
We offer great opportunities for personal development. Furthermore, we offer a wide range of professional, social and financial employee benefits in addition to exciting job challenges and continuous professional and personal development.