Lifecycle planner

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

When you’re part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do challenging work, and join a team that values performance, quality and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to create significant contributions to the world.

Location/Division Specific Information

We are looking for a Lifecycle Planner to own end‑to‑end planning for service parts across the full system lifecycle—from New Product Introduction (NPI) through steady‑state production, End of Production (EOP), and End of Regular Support / End of Support (EORS/EOS). You will translate system lifecycle requirements into a spare‑parts planning strategy, ensuring to meet customer service levels without excess inventory. This role partners closely with cross-functional teams in a very dynamic environment.

A day in the Life:

• Represent Service Logistics in PLM gates; ensure service readiness and ability to support customers until end of the lifecycle.
• Build partnerships with Engineering/Global Technical Support to refine failure‑rate assumptions and repairable vs. consumable strategies, has ability to challenge suggested strategies.
• Align with Inventory Manager on EOP/EOS reserves, obsolescence risk, and excess/slow‑moving mitigation plans.
• Work hand‑in‑hand with Global Planners who own daily execution (forecasting, PO approvals, stock allocation, redeployments).

Education

• MSc degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business or related field.

Experience

• 5+ years in service/aftermarket planning, or supply chain planning (spares, lifecycle management, or high‑mix environments).
• Direct experience in leading product lifecycles from NPI through EOS.
• A background in a high-tech service environment is helpful.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Solid understanding of inventory optimization or service‑parts planning tools (Servigistics)
• Comfort with BI/reporting (e.g., Power BI) and basic SQL/Python a plus.
• Strong analytical skills: translating failure rates and usage signals into forecasts; confident with Excel and data analysis.
• Ability to understand technical complexity of our products, question spare parts strategies and able to define a spare part strategy independently.
• Cross‑functional influencer: aligns partners on trade‑offs between service levels, cost, and risk.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects!