Demand Planner

About the Role

Fresenius Medical Care is a worldwide leader in kidney care, focused on enhancing outcomes for people living with chronic kidney disease. The company delivers innovative products, therapies, and services across the healthcare journey, backed by a global workforce of more than 125,000 people. Within the Care Enablement business, teams build life-sustaining medical products, digital health solutions, and therapies that support clinical teams and improve patient care. The FME Reignite strategy is centered on transformation through innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth.

Manufacturing and Supply Chain is a core part of Care Enablement, responsible for producing and delivering high-quality devices for hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and acute care through a network of more than 35 manufacturing sites and 23 distribution centers, serving patients in around 150 countries.

The role is focused on owning demand review processes, supporting logistics and inventory planning, contributing to supply chain financial management, and driving continuous improvement across local and global planning operations.

Values and Culture

• Care deeply for patients, colleagues, and communities.
• Work across teams and geographies to achieve strong results together.
• Act with integrity, purpose, and innovation while advancing kidney care.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead demand planning activities end to end for the KSA market, supporting scalability as sales volumes and market reach expand.
• Improve forecast accuracy and bring greater visibility to the planning process.
• Work closely with Commercial, Marketing, Customer Service, Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain teams to understand changing demand drivers in a fast-moving environment.
• Facilitate and lead monthly demand review meetings.
• Support logistics and supply planning work to maintain service continuity and healthy inventory levels.
• Track inventory exposure, slow-moving stock risk, and service-level impact.
• Prepare the supply chain budget and perform monthly financial analysis to align growth, cost discipline, and profitability.
• Partner with Finance on cost control and broader business-planning activities.
• Monitor inventory health and coordinate cross-functional mitigation plans to protect service while enabling growth.
• Serve as the primary owner for demand and planning matters in the KSA market.
• Represent KSA planning performance in global and regional discussions.
• Contribute to global and regional supply chain projects as the KSA planning representative.

Profile and Requirements

• At least 5 to 8+ years of experience in demand planning, supply chain management, and financial understanding.
• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Supply Chain, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Background in forecasting or demand planning within a commercial setting.
• Comfortable working independently and across functions.
• Strong project management and stakeholder management capability.
• Excellent numerical, analytical, and statistical thinking skills.
• Good understanding of statistics and statistical approaches to demand planning.
• Self-driven, proactive, and committed to continuous improvement.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Able to turn complex data and differing viewpoints into clear insights.
• Capable of forming and facilitating decisions using sound analysis.
• Quick learner who can manage multiple priorities, stay focused, and adapt to changing situations.
• Able to carry out detailed processes under time pressure.
• Strong knowledge of IBP systems.
• Knowledge of SAP related to supply planning and sales.
• Familiarity with data and analytics platforms.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills.
• Fluency in both English and Arabic is required.

What the Employer Offers

• Opportunity to contribute to work that helps make better medicine accessible to more people worldwide.
• Room for self-directed career planning and professional growth.
• A culture that encourages innovative thinking and collaborative problem-solving.
• Access to a large, skilled, and committed global workforce.
• The advantages of a successful international organization with the collaborative feel of a medium-sized company.

Additional Information

This position is based in the Riyadh Region and follows an onsite work setup. No salary, vacancy count, or start date was specified in the source.