Principal Supply Chain Planner - Maple Grove, MN/Hybrid

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

Principal Supply Chain Planner

About the Role:

 

At Boston Scientific, the Principal Supply Chain Planner collaborates with divisional, regional, and clinical counterparts to plan for and maintain appropriate levels of finished goods inventories (owns enterprise-wide SI&OP process). Drives business execution of new programs and initiatives that include promotional activities, forecast and coordination for key events, and new product launches. Monitors key sales and operations planning performance indicators, cost to serve performance data, and coordinates cross functional work teams to increase effectiveness of supply chain initiatives. Helps to drive end to end thinking and agility across value streams with the end customer in mind.

 

Your Responsibilities Include:
 

• Computer and Systems Knowledge: Possesses solid knowledge of Microsoft suite, with proficiency in Excel. Utilizes in-depth conceptual, practical, and functional knowledge of SAP ERP and Kinaxis Rapid Response planning systems. Leverages knowledge in own function and other related functions to recommend new and/or improved processes, impacting various teams across BSC.
• Data Analytics: Possesses the ability to conduct advanced analytics on complex problems and large datasets. Proficient in the use of advanced analytics tools and creates complex models. Translates analysis results into understandable business outcomes and creates compelling cases for decision makers. Leads team in analytic-driven projects.
• Inventory Management: Daily monitoring of inventory levels for products in their portfolio. Recommends inputs to inventory targets and maintain in system, applying specialized conceptual and practical knowledge in own job function or field and full understanding of related job functions. Manages inventory to plan, identifies and leads opportunities for improvement, reducing inventory charges and creating VIP's. Works independently in short supply situations and allocates product receiving minimal guidance only on complex and unprecedented problems. Communicates supply updates to marketing and regional planners and can explain difficult or sensitive information to facilitate productive discussion and/or work to build consensus.
• Manage Forecast Inputs / Improve Forecast Accuracy: Works directly with all business stakeholders to set the forecast to meet global demand for complex supply chains and/or business critical products. Initiate, oversee activities and explains difficult or sensitive information to influence and improve forecast accuracy and reduce forecast bias. Receives minimal guidance.
• SI&OP process: Facilitates cross-functional SI&OP Demand Planning and Net Requirements meetings for key parts of the portfolio. Develop and coach others on SI&OP process steps for non-standard situations. Support cross-functional SI&OP process efforts. Leads global peers to ensure complete and credible net requirements for standard and more complex situations are being captured for products across division portfolio. Collaborates with broad base of stakeholders on identifying and presenting complex issues or decisions needing escalation to Integration & Reconciliation or Executive reviews. Regularly identify and lead projects or analysis resulting from SI&OP process.
• Manage product lifecycle events effectively (launches, transitions and EOLife/EOService): Independently collaborate with end-to-end supply chain partners to develop and maintain product lifecycle SI&OP templates, driving business decisions. Ensures sufficient inventory per product event plan and facilitates communication of product lifecycle tracking materials to cross functional SI&OP team and other key stakeholders. Identifies and leads collaboration on changes to inventory strategy as needed. Drive decision making on issues through SI&OP process. Lead supply chain on more complex and critical product development, sustaining engineering or EOL/EOS team, facilitating end to end supply chain event readiness and decision making.
• Strategizes with Clinical Supply Chain planners relating to the complexities of clinical study inventory challenges. Inquires and understands Clinical inventory strategy (e.g., one-time builds, replenishment/rolling builds). Provides additional considerations on forecasting