Supply Chain Planner

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**A Day in the Life**

In this exciting role as a Supply Chain Planner, you will have responsibility for efficiently managing supply for Medtronic’s Cardiac Ablation Solution products. T his role will develop and implement short, medium and long-term supply chain strategies and networks that address capacity issues, production location decisions, and supply in support of business growth. Primary responsibility will be ensuring product availability while meeting inventory targets and ensuring flawless launch of new products. This position leads and works in a collaborative environment with other business functions and will support the department’s strategic goals and objectives with limited direct supervision.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Analyzes, develops, and implements long-term supply chain strategies and networks that address capacity issues and production location decisions in support of business goals.
- Accountable for product availability, back orders, and inventory management effectively managing the supply chain to meet and exceed KPI’s relating to service levels, net requirement attainment, inventory levels/inventory weeks, and backorder dollars.
- Becoming an expert in coverage area. Working towards understanding relationships with site, both internal and external, and the products that are made.
- Ability to integrate production capabilities and delivery calendars into supply/inventory plans using multiple methodologies including master scheduling, -every-part-every-interval, pull, etc.
- Plans, prepares, issues, and controls production schedules and directs material requirements to ensure a controlled flow of raw and approved finished goods materials timed to meet production requirements.
- Analyzes, develops, and implements long-term supply chain strategies and networks that address capacity issues and production location decisions in support of business goals.
- Perform root cause analysis to identify service risks and perform mitigation actions.
- Support business execution of new programs and initiatives that include transportation cost optimization, new product launches, and network redesigns.
- Extract informed insights on key business analytics from KPI dashboards.
- Communicate with internal stakeholders about deployment projections, constraints, allocation decisions, etc.
- Identify and implement the process(s) and/or system changes to improve on-time delivery performance.
- Provide comprehensive insights on distribution requirements, backorder projections or other process.
- Distribution of regular and assigned reports.

**Must Have: Minimum Requirements**
- Bachelors degree required
- Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience.
- Bachelors degree required or completed professional career.
- Minimum of 3+ years of relevant experience or advanced degree of relevant Supply Chain, Planning or Forecasting experience.
- Strong analytical, planning, Excel and organizational skills.
- Bilingual English - Spanish Communication and Business Proficiency, and excellent written and verbal communication.

**Nice to Have**
- Experience in Supply or Distribution Planning.
- Knowledge or certification of SAP, Power BI, Lean Six Sigma, APICS are desired
- APICS (CPIM/CSCP) certification.
- High level of integrity and accountability, curiosity and inquisitiveness.
- Experience with purchasing, forecasting and supplier management.
- Experience managing projects and working in teams.
- Must be able to work in a team environment, including inter-departmental teams and deliver concise updates to various stakeholders.
- Familiar with working in an ISO 13485 and FDA regulated environment.
- Strong communication skills (both verbally and in written) with a proven ability to understand k