Materials Sr Planner

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered and recognised.

**What You Can Expect**:
The Materials Senior Planner ensures that the supply of materials meet the production schedule and minimum stock levels to ensure operational and production reliability. This role must also communicate to a variety of groups around materials shortages, volumes, and capacity. This requires the ability to maintain strong relationships both internally and externally to ensure supply of materials meets requirements. In doing so, this position helps Zimmer Biomet commit to the highest standards of patient safety and quality in our products and services and to world-class integrity and ethical business practices.

**How You'll Create Impact**:
Operations

Analyze requirements trends to support current and future production plans from operations planning. Generate and action direct materials needs utilizing and interpreting messages from the material requirements plan (MRP)

Order and schedule the supply of direct materials and components to meet production requirements and minimum safety stock levels at Zimmer Biomet

Communicate raw materials shortages, update supply plans and execute on follow up actions, as necessary to mitigate the shortage.

Communicate with suppliers regarding current orders, schedules/schedule changes, future planned volumes, capacity, capacity availability, supplier held inventory.

Reconcile supply non-conformances, return of product, and re-planning of material needs

Manage supplier capacity related issues, coordinating with Central Planning. Escalate supplier capacity related issues and overall performance issues to sourcing team / commodity management if unable to mitigate, then coordinate the recovery.

Develop, implement and evaluate processes for material delivery from supplier to point of use

Implement all processes to agreed standards and targets and support continuous improvement initiatives and identify areas of improvement; includes setting of standard costs, and monitoring and resolving purchase price variance drivers

Monitor inventory levels against target levels both within Zimmer Biomet, and at the supplier

Support inventory checks to validate inventory accuracy

Minimize obsolete stock and ensure business is left with minimum liability

**What Makes You Stand Out**:
Advanced knowledge of supply chain planning and management

Strong supplier planning and scheduling skills and/or production planning/scheduling skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to work to deadlines and produce outputs on a regular, timely basis

Understanding of end to end supply chain interactions, activities, and underlying interdependencies

Ability to use analytical tools to issue, support, and execute decisions

Strong Analytical skills and ability to extract meaning from information from various sources of data

Ability to communicate effectively both upwards and across the organization

**Your Background**:
BS or BA in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, or other related field

5 or more years of experience in supply chain, project management, planning, or IT systems, strongly preferred to have experience in all areas

Experience with medical devices preferred

Experience with one or more ERP system preferred

CPSM certification a plus

Advanced Level of English

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability