Inventory Analyst
MedtronicAbout the role
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Join our Supply Chain team as an Inventory Analyst supporting our OC Campus and play a key role in keeping our materials and products flowing smoothly from raw components to finished goods. In this role, you’ll lead inventory management initiatives to achieve our inventory targets, and partner closely with operations, purchasing, logistics, and planning. You’ll help design and maintain the processes, controls, and material management systems that reduce costs, streamline workflows, and ensure we always have the right materials in the right place at the right time.Act boldly. Compete to win. Move with speed and decisiveness. Foster belonging. Deliver results…the right way. That’s the Medtronic Mindset — our cultural norms. Our brand is rooted in action, not just words. The Medtronic Mindset defines the expectations of our culture. Every person here plays a role in bringing it to life. We recognize your extraordinary potential to ensure future generations live better, healthier lives.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Ensures that inventories are secure, properly identified and readily accessible to authorized personnel.
Maintains controls over various types of inventories (e.g., raw materials, subassemblies, finished goods).
Conducts physical inventory counts and reconciles results with inventory records.
Ensures that quantities of incoming and outgoing shipments are correct.
Conducts analyses of inventory levels and coordinates with production and supply network planning requirements.
Creates integrated processes among internal functions (e.g., operations, purchasing and logistics).
Plans and analyzes activities related to the timely, cost-effective procurement, inventory control, planning and quality control of production materials.
Develops, implements, and maintains policies, procedures, and material control systems to reduce costs, streamline procedures, and implement solutions.
At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 5 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
Minimum Requirements To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile and resume
Requires practical knowledge and demonstrated competence within job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
Requires a bachelor’s degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience.
Preferred:
CPIM (Apics certification)
SAP
Advanced Excel
Strong communication skills (both verbally and in written) with a proven ability to understand key concepts and communicate with business stakeholders
Excellent mathematics/analytics/statistical skills demonstrated through education or professional background
For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
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.
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
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