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A Day in the LifeJoin a global industry leader in innovative medical technology and grow your career! As a Senior Supply Chain Planner for Medtronic’s Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) business, you will play a critical role in the development and execution of supply plans to meet customer requirements.An internal move has created a new opportunity for a Senior Supply Chain Planner! Reporting to the ANZ Supply Chain Planning Manager and based in our office in Sydney, the Senior Supply Chain Planner will play an integral role in the ANZ Supply Planning for our Total Spine operating unit.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Demonstrate business partnering with Product Managers, Marketing Managers, Territory Managers and other internal stakeholders.
Manage key inventory planning functions to provide quality and timely service to internal and external customers.
Review the weekly inventory levels and ad hoc reports as required for the Business and place Stock Transfer Orders with appropriate Sourcing Plants and to Downstream locations/Agents.
Liaise with Product Managers and Sales staff to help formulate strategies for inventory optimisation, taking into account changing market dynamics, phase in and phase out plans for other influences
Monitor and improve product availability in conjunction with identifying initiatives to optimise inventory levels.
Work with Inventory team to maintain focus on potential inventory obsolescence write off risks.
Report as required to the stakeholders on product availabilities to facilitate the distribution to customers
Review and update Inventory Optimisation (IO) targets.
Maintain data integrity of system master data to enable the planning system to generate accurate supply chain plans.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
Degree in business or formal tertiary qualification in Operations Management
Minimum 4 years experience in a similar role, with an emphasis on Supply Chain Planning
Able to demonstrate a solid background in Supply Planning with good understanding of Supply Chain Principles
Able to demonstrate a background in Supply Chain Analysis
Experience with advanced supply chain planning systems such as Blue Yonder and SAP ECC
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here
