We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 24 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

Do meaningful work, make a difference, and improve lives — starting with your own!

Medtronic is intensely focused on creating a workplace environment which reflects our standing as the world’s top medical device company. The ideal candidate will have a passion for the patients we serve and an unrelenting desire to improve our business.

In this exciting role as a Buyer/ Planner, you will have responsibility for MRP accuracy, purchase planning and execution, PO maintenance and raw material inventory. This includes placing Purchase Orders for raw materials (including Kanban agreements), raising call up, negotiating timely delivery for ensuring cost effective acquisition of quality materials, checking validating BOM for Buy material, inventory analytics to reduce unhealthy inventory. This position leads and works in a collaborative environment with Production planning, Manufacturing, Commodity Management, Supplier Quality and Supplier Management.

On-site Buyer/Planner for purchasing and planning support. Own raw material purchasing, material planning and production planning activities.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Sources, purchases, plans, and schedules the movement of raw materials, packaging materials, parts, components, services, supplies, finished goods, and related material through production and inventory process.
• Identifies raw material, component, and related requirements from engineering and production specifications and schedules.
• In front-end procurement mode, analyzes data and determines factors that affect prices and determines lowest cost consistent with quality, reliability, and ability to meet required schedules.
• Coordinates and follows up with production, warehouse, and engineering personnel to ensure appropriate procurement, scheduling, and movement of materials and services.
• Compiles information to keep informed on price trends and manufacturing processes.
• May monitor performance of suppliers and collaborate on demand analysis planning.
• Understand, validate, correct, and act on Material Requirement planning (MRP) and its messages. Get BOM, yields corrected to ensure MRP signal is right.
• Sources, purchases, plans, and schedules the movement of raw materials, packaging materials, parts, components, services, supplies, finished goods, and related material through production and inventory process.
• Actively manages raw material inventory – analyzing it , reducing unhealthy inventory to exceed  Meet inventory goals while supporting material requirements for production.
• Maintain PO for dates and Quantity to remain current  and drive excellence in Supplier OTIF
• Represent Purchasing in Manufacturing, Operations Scheduling and other daily Tier meetings.
• Very close co-ordination with supplier as well as Manufacturing to ensure there are no line downs due to Material.
• Place timely purchase orders expedite material and resolve payment issues with suppliers.
• Partners with Commodity Management/ Supply Management on supplier Value Stream, Capacity Planning, supplier issues/delays and Business continuity assessment
• Proactively escalate any supplier issues, get buy in from cross functional team to ensure risk (of line down) are mitigated.
• Partners with Sourcing Engineer on resolve supplier issue of Quality, capacity, Lead time
• Participates in cross-functional projects involving Supply Chain, Sector and/or corporate initiatives that ensure business objectives are met. 
• Ensure compliance to procedures and represent purchasing in audits.
• Support in production planning activities
• Develop the Master Production Schedule (MPS) each month optimizing service while constraint by resources. 
• Develop level loaded – capacity constrained weekly / daily build schedule in line with MPS and manufacturing constraints adapted to Raw material, labor and equipment availability 
• Identify and participate in the resolution of issues by employing strong analytical and planning skills. 
• Analyze, develop, and implement long-term supply chain strategies and networks that address capacity issues and production location decisions in support of business goals. 
• Conduct daily / weekly operations calls with manufacturing sites and Global Supply Chain to align on weekly production schedule, explain any capacity/supply constraints and share projection/ recovery plan 
• Attend / lead dail