Global Planning Director

Description:

Medison is a global pharma company providing access to highly innovative therapies to patients in international markets. Medison commercializes highly innovative therapies across international markets, helping to save and improve the lives of patients suffering from the most challenging diseases.

Medison has a deep expertise in local regulatory and market access know-how with uncompromising compliance excellence. It offers an affiliate-like partnership and tailored-solutions for country-specific and regional commercialization, enabling emerging biotech companies to navigate local complexities and to expand their reach to patients in international markets.

Medison is rapidly growing in the international markets backed by 28 years of established operations in Israel, global infrastructure, and partnership network. Medison is headquartered in Israel, with its international markets HQ in Switzerland and commercial hubs across European Partner Markets, Americas, APAC.

Global Planning Director will be responsible for driving best-in-class planning processes, ensuring product availability, optimizing inventory and working capital, and leading the global Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) framework. This role will be reporting directly to the COO.

As a key member of the extended Global Technical Operations Leadership Team, you will lead a team of Global Planning Managers and partner closely with Commercial, Finance, Alliance, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and external partners to enable sustainable growth and operational excellence.

• Define and execute Medison's global planning vision, processes, and governance.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing global planning team.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across regions and business functions.
• Contribute to strategic decision-making as part of the Global Technical Operations leadership team.
• Lead and continuously improve the global S&OP process across all regions and business units
• Facilitate executive planning reviews and support data-driven decision-making.
• Align demand, supply, inventory, and financial objectives across the business.
• Drive scenario planning and risk mitigation strategies.
• Establish scalable demand and supply planning methodologies and standards.
• Ensure supply continuity across all products, markets, and commercial launches.
• Optimize inventory levels while maintaining high service standards.
• Define and govern global inventory strategies, stock policies, and service level targets across the end-to-end supply chain.
• Provide executive oversight through KPI monitoring, scenario planning, and strategic recommendations to support launches, partner integrations, supply resilience, and working capital performance.
• Lead Global planning strategy for new product launches, market expansions, and strategic partnerships.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Regulatory, and Quality teams to ensure launch readiness.
• Support the onboarding of new partners and supply chain integrations.
• Define the roadmap for planning systems, automation, and reporting tools.
• Develop meaningful KPIs and dashboards to improve visibility and decision-making.
• Champion data quality and planning process excellence across the organization.
• Establish effective collaboration with manufacturing partners and suppliers.
• Drive supply reviews with strategic partners.
• Ensure alignment between planning assumptions and business commitments.

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Business, Engineering, Economics, Life Sciences, or related fields.
• MBA or Master's degree preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, or Integrated Business Planning.
•  5+ years of leadership experience.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, or healthcare industries.
• Proven track record managing global planning processes across multiple regions.
• Experience supporting product launches in complex, fast-growing environments.
• Strong strategic mindset with the ability to drive hands-on execution.
• Demonstrated leadership and team development capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen.
• Expertise in S&OP, inventory optimization, and working capital management.
• Experience with ERP and planning platforms such as SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Kinaxis, or similar.
• Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, or equivalent analytics tools.
• Strong project and change management skills.
• Fluent English.