Senior Supply Chain Planner

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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.                

About the Role

The Senior Supply Chain Planner role offers significant exposure across our network of 18 sending sites and will sit at and support our Coventry Sterilization Site. You will play a pivotal role in building tools and processes from the ground up, as Coventry has not previously been part of the planning process for Boston Scientific. Additionally, this role impacts over 50% of the global volume, underscoring the significant contribution you’ll make to the organization.

Your responsibilities will include:

Demand Planning:

• Collaborate with internal operations and manufacturing site teams to develop monthly sterilization operations forecasts.
• Aggregate forecasts from unit sales/production levels to sterilization pallet levels.
• Partner with Global Sterilization Planning and Country Operations Groups to identify all demand sources (e.g., scheduling agreements, distributor shipments, consignment).
• Act as the primary owner of the demand signal, consolidating and analyzing capacity constraints.
• Conduct monthly reviews with Product Managers to evaluate past performance and future forecasts.

Supply Chain Execution:

• Support daily, weekly, and monthly planning processes:
  • Maintain forecasts (Production Handshake).
  • Manage net requirements and monitor manufacturing execution (Schedule Adherence).
  • Provide operations capacity analysis and proactively manage service level exceptions.
  • Expedite management requirements and communications as needed.
• Develop and facilitate regular communication forums with supplying sites and stakeholders to review forecasts, operational performance, and impacts.

New Product Launch Management:

• Work with Global Sterilization Planning and sending sites to integrate demand for new products, acquisitions, and supply chain improvements into capacity planning.

Contribute to the Monthly S&OP Process

• Support the achievement of performance metrics, including Service Level, Backorder, Inventory, Forecast Accuracy, Schedule Adherence, and FG Scrap.

PCD Inventory Management and Capacity Planning

• Serve as the logistics process lead, driving and addressing process improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of experience in related roles
• 3+ years of experience leading planning processes such as S&OE and S&OP, as well as inventory management of finished goods.
• Familiarity with SAP, Rapid Response, MES software or similar software

Preferred Qualifications

• APICS certification or logistics studies is highly desirable.
• Experience in the medical device industry
• Strong interpersonal and soft skills, including the ability to influence without authority.
• Experience in SQL and Power BI
• Prior experience with Boston Scientific

Requisition ID: 594926

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. 

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, veteran’s status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Boston Scientific maintains a prohibited substance free workplace. Pursuant to Va. Code § 2.2-4312 (2000), Boston Scientific is providing notification that the unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance or marijuana is prohibited in the workplace and that violations will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.