We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 30 Oct 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

At Medtronic, we seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level: We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader — that’s why we make it a point to seek out, attract and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.

In this exciting role as a Senior 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.

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 4 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.

As a Sr. Buyer/Planner, you will:

• Understand, validate, correct, and act on Material Requirement planning (MRP) and its messages. Get BOM, yields corrected to ensure MRP signal is right. 

• Source, purchase, plan, and schedule the movement of raw materials, packaging materials, parts, components, services, supplies, finished goods, and related material through production and inventory process. 

• Actively manage raw material inventory – analyzing it , reducing unhealthy inventory to exceed Partners with Sourcing Engineer on resolve supplier issue of Quality, capacity, Lead time 

• Lead and participate in cross-functional projects involving Supply Chain, Sector and/or corporate initiatives that ensure business objectives are met.  

• Ensure compliance with procedures and represent purchasing in audits. 

• Coordinate and follow up with production, warehouse, IQC and engineering personnel to ensure appropriate procurement, scheduling, and movement of materials and services. 

• Compile information to keep informed on price trends and manufacturing processes. 

• Monitor performance of suppliers and collaborate on demand analysis planning. 

• 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. 

• Keep 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. 

• Partner 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 a cross functional team to ensure risk (of line down) are mitigated. 

Must Have: Minimum Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree required 

• Minimum of 4 yea