Advisor, Supply Chain Planning (Specialty Solutions)

What Supply Chain Planning contributes to Cardinal Health
Operations is responsible for materials handling and product distribution in a distribution or manufacturing environment. Includes warehousing and fulfillment of materials and products, transportation, inventory management as well as demand, supply and manufacturing planning.

The Demand Planning Advisor is an individual contributor position within the supply chain planning function in the Pharmaceutical Division. As a subject matter expert, you will collaborate with numerous cross-functional stakeholders to build and deliver a consensus demand plan that considers historical trends, seasonality, promotional activities, and product transition plans, while balancing our financial targets. As we continuously evolve and improve our planning capabilities, this role will also involve learning new forecasting tools and processes to drive cross-functional collaboration, improve forecast accuracy, and support long term sales strategies. As an individual contributor, this role will also support deep diving into data, deriving insights amongst ambiguity, and presenting findings that influence business critical decisions.

Location

This role will be a hybrid position; 1 day in-office per week at the Dublin, OH headquarters.

Responsibilities

• Leverage internal demand planning system, creating short-term and long-term demand forecast plans, and lead cross-functional meetings to drive demand consensus.
• As part of Integrated Business Planning, review historical sales trends, research demand drivers and validate demand inputs to enhance forecast derived from off-the-shelf forecast models and evaluate forecast results for different categories.
• Work closely with category owners to understand business growth strategy, reconcile significant forecast variances and refine forecast model inputs to reflect updated sales and marketing strategies, and improve forecast accuracy across different categories.
• Support ongoing process improvements and automation of demand planning tools to reduce manual data aggregation and increase visibility to the forecast analysis.
• Partner closely with customers and sales team, and IQVIA to leverage customers’ data/IQVIA data to improve forecast accuracy.
• Communicate ideas concisely to a wide variety of stakeholders for purposes ranging from informative to financial approval from executives.
• Provide support with data analytics, root cause analysis, and problem resolution of inventory concerns or issues.
• Support MSO (Managed Service Organization) teams and sales team to identify opportunities and/or risks as part of collaborative planning.
• Responsible for identifying and mitigating future service level disruptions.
• Ad-hoc analytics related to inventory management business objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, industrial engineering, operations research or equivalent work experience, preferred; Master’s degree a plus
• 3+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning roles preferred
• Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) Planner experience a plus
• Proficient in Advanced Microsoft Excel preferred, SQL/Tableau a plus
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience building/maintaining statistical forecast models preferred
• APICS certifications and SAP/Planning system (Manhattan, Kinaxis etc.) experience, preferred
• Experience in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) preferred
• Must be a self-starter with strong strategic influence

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects
• May contribute to the development of policies and procedures
• Works on complex projects of large scope
• Develops technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems
• Solutions are innovative and consistent with organization objectives
• Completes work; independently receives general guidance on new projects
• Work reviewed for purpose of meeting objectives
• May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Anticipated salary range: $67,500 - $96,300

Bonus eligible: No

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 4/12/2026 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.