We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 12 Mar 2025

 

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

We seek a motivated Sr. Principal Supply Chain Planner to support the Planning Tech COE with supply planning and sequencing. As the Sr. Principal Supply Chain Planner, you will work to enhance our planning tools and further leverage our Blue Yonder tool, ensuring we are identifying, initiating, and executing improvement projects across our entire global supply chain.

As the Senior Principal Supply Chain Planner, you will utilize your deep expertise with Blue Yonder's (or predecessors') Enterprise Supply Planning application as part of the Global Supply Chain Planning Center of Excellence organization. You will provide support in the development and execution of continuous improvement and long-term strategies that will optimize Medtronic’s innovation, growth, and profitability goals.

As the Sr. Principal Supply Chain Planner, you will:

• Lead Blue Yonder ESP and Sequencing continuous improvement, issue resolution & triage, and further leveraging our capabilities.

• Further drive towards zero touch planning.

• Monitor key Global Supply Chain and operations planning performance indicators and cost-to-serve performance data, as well as coordinate cross-functional work teams to increase the effectiveness of supply chain initiatives.

• Support the Supply Chain planning technology roadmap.

• Design & deploy cross functional technology improvements.

• Identify and complete complex system technical work.

• Support Anaplan tool enhancements and other planning tools.

• Provide Business Requirements, create test cases, and complete testing as needed.

• Ensure successful patch deployment.

• Work in partnership with IT, GSCP and other team members.

• Analyze, develop, and implement long-term supply chain strategies and networks that address capacity issues and production location decisions supporting business goals.

• Support business execution of new programs and initiatives.

Must Have:

• Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant Supply Chain systems implementation, design, or support or an advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant Supply Chain systems implementation, design, or support. 

• Relevant experience implementing or supporting Blue Yonder, JDA or Manugistics or predacesor systems

Nice to Have 

• Previous hands-on knowledge of two or more disciplines within supply chain-demand planning, supply planning, distribution requirements planning, materials planning, operations scheduling, or master data planning.

• Mastery of Supply Chain system implementation experience (Blue Yonder, SAP, ECC, APO, Manugistics, BI, Tableau, etc.)

• Superior project management skills, including leading and running cross-functional teams and programs. Detailed knowledge of PMI processes and PMP accreditation.

• Excellent communication, organizational skills, change management, stakeholder engagement, and influence experience.

• Lean Sigma Green or Black Belt with a familiarity with the DMAIC process.

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 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.

Benefits & Compensation
 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
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