Analista de La Cadena de Suministro

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Detailed field inventory management, follow up and action when needed
- Contact with Latin America Customers in indirect markets
- Optimize field inventory levels
- Create a toolkit, reports, KPI’s to facilitate follow up
- Provide comprehensive regular reporting to Sr Management
- Support the monthly forecast review, S&OP process (analyze returns, product shelf life etc)
- Track delivery dates in the system, remedy inbound mismatches and Co-ordinate with manufacturing and logistics operations to expedite shipments to avoid shortages
- Maintenance of item master in the ERP system for both Clinical & Commercial activities
- Support action plans to minimize Excess & Obsolete Inventory
- Continuously monitor inventory development to achieve target levels and ensure early detection of shortages
- Inventory coverage communication with the LATAM customer service
- Admin activities in the ERP system (JDE), like release orders, approve consignment returns, product movements in distribution network
- Do back-up position in absence of the Supply Chain Controllers
- Manage a close relationship with customer service in case of low inventory
- Contribute to new product launch planning, ensuring supply to support launch on time at budget
- Create and maintain processes and procedures (e.g., SOPs, work instructions) for applicable Supply Chain functions
- Provide training and coaching to other Supply Chain team members
- Contribution to demand Planning: Manage about 300 SKUs and a collaborative forecast, as well as the appropriate algorithm for the statistical model.
- Proactively communicate to direct management on delivery status, back order root causes (out of stocks), recovery details as required and communicate with the EMEA customer service.
- Collaborate with logistics to identify opportunities for cost and service improvement for freight
- Other incidental duties assigned by Leadership

**Education and Experience**:
Bachelor's Degree and 5 years of previous related experience are required.
Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field and Experience working in a medical device and/or regulated industry preferred.

**Additional Skills**:

- Expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, Global Supply Chain, and Quality systems. - Knowledge in ERP JDE and Blue Yonder JDA will be considered as plus.
- Demand planning knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including negotiating and relationship management skills
- Good level of English is a must
- Ability to work independently
- Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Strict attention to detail
- Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment

About Edwards Lifesciences

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world’s leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 13,000 individuals worldwide.

For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it’s our life’s work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.

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