Sr Supply Chain Planner

**Careers that Change Lives**

**A Day in the Life**
- Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Coordinates Supply Planning activities to support the sub region finish goods projected demand at sustainable inventory levels.
- Provides timely visibility regarding supply disruptions to the local businesses, works with upstream Supply Chain to mitigate gaps.
- Coordinates local execution of mitigation plans, prioritizes inbound process, monitors inventory health, owns stocking strategies at the countries and supports the local business in detecting excess and coordinating depletion plans.
- Supports business execution of new programs and initiatives that include promotional activities, forecast and coordination for key events, new product launches, and network redesigns.
- Analyzes, develops, and implements long-term supply chain strategies and networks that address capacity issues and production location decisions in support of business goals.
- Monitors key sales and operations planning performance indicators, cost-to-serve performance data, and coordinates cross-functional work teams to increase effectiveness of supply chain initiatives.

**Must Have: Minimum Requirements**
- Bachelors degree required
- 3 or more years of relevant demand or supply planning, supply chain and supply logistics or related.
- Fluent English is a must.
- Excellent customer skills.
- Contacts others to share information, status, needs and issues in order to inform, gain input, and support decision-making.
- Knowledge in SAP.
- External interactions are less complex or problem solving in nature.
- Teamwork.
- Excellent people skills.
- Works independently with general supervision on larger, moderately complex projects / assignments.
- Sets objectives for own job area to meet the objectives of projects and assignments.
- Contributes to the completion of project milestones.
- Learning agility (super important)
- In Comunication and Influence: needs to be able to educate and influence internal customers with higher seniority (Commercial and Marketing Managers and Directors).
- Excel knowledge.
- Proactive and good creativity.

**Nice to Have**
- Nice to have lean six sigma knowledge.
- Nice to have Experience in Power BI navigation and report analysis.
- Experience in medical devices, pharma or related industries is a big plus.
- Knowledge in S&OE (Sales & Operations Execution) and S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning).
- Manugistics/Blue Yonder DRP modules knowledge.

**About Medtronic**

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)