Global Supply Chain Planner

Additional Locations: US-MN-Arden Hills

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.

This is a hybrid role which means you will work three days per week at our BSC Location. 

Primary Location: Kerkrade, Netherlands
Secondary Locations: Arden Hills, MN or Marlborough, MA

About the Role:
This is a Global Role in which   you will help coordinate and control demand planning activities for Service Parts in our growing Capital Equipment Business with multiple stakeholders across divisions and regions.
 At Boston Scientific, the Global Supply Chain Planner II collaborates with divisional, regional, and service teams to plan for and maintain appropriate levels of finished goods inventories following our SI&OP process. Helps to drive end to end thinking and agility across value streams with the end customer in mind, support New Product Launches and monitor Supply Chain KPI’s.

Your Responsibilities Include: 

• Computer and Systems Knowledge: Possesses solid knowledge of Microsoft suite, with proficiency in Excel. Also possesses solid knowledge of SAP ERP and Kinaxis Rapid Response planning systems. Utilizes conceptual knowledge within the planning system to solve problems that impact daily planning. 
• Data Analytics: Possesses the ability to conduct solid analytics on business problems and datasets. Produces, retrieves, and interprets reports using standard systems and tools. Applies understanding of supply chain-related metrics to accomplish own work. 
• Inventory Management: Daily monitoring of inventory levels for products in their portfolio. Recommends inputs to inventory targets and maintain in system, applying understanding of business drivers and solid knowledge of own job function. Manages inventory to plan, identifies and leads opportunities for improvement and in short supply situations, allocates product with moderate level of guidance and using prescribed guidelines or policies. Communicates supply updates to marketing and regional planners, with factual sometimes complex and potentially dynamic information in straightforward situations. 
• Manage Forecast Inputs / Improve Forecast Accuracy: Works directly with marketing, sales operations, and regional planners to set the forecast to meet global demand for stable portfolios, less complex supply chains. Organizes and presents data to influence and improve forecast accuracy and reduce forecast bias through moderate level of guidance and direction from more senior roles within the job function. 
• SI&OP process: Facilitates portions of cross-functional SI&OP Demand Planning and Net Requirements meetings. Independently collaborates with global peers to ensure complete and credible net requirements for standard and more complex situations are being captured for products in their portfolio. Independently works with supply sites/SFMD’s for Supply Management on identifying and presenting standard and more complex issues or decisions needing escalation to Integration & Reconciliation. Support projects or analysis resulting from SI&OP process. 
• Manage product lifecycle events effectively (launches, transitions and EOLife/EOService): Independently prepares product lifecycle SI&OP templates. Ensures sufficient inventory per product event plan and communicates product lifecycle tracking materials to cross functional SI&OP team. Recommends changes to inventory strategy as needed. Escalate issues through SI&OP process. Represents supply chain on more complex product development, sustaining engineering or EOL/EOS team. 
• Partnership with Clinical Supply Chain: Partners with Clinical Supply Chain to gain general knowledge on clinical study inventory needs. Inquires and understands Clinical inventory strategy (e.g., one-time builds, replenishment/rolling builds). Provides additional considerations on forecasting. Includes clinical study demand in overall demand forecast. 
• Master Data Maintenance: Ensures GSCP-owned fields are complete and accurate for the products in their portfolio. Remain current on training for SOP’s and Work Instructions regarding ERP and planning system master data. May be knowledgeable on master data fields managed in other functions to provide input when asked. 
• Project Management: Develops and documents project plans. Gain an understanding of dependencies and sequence of events. Executes required monthly/scheduled tasks with some oversight and applies understanding of business drivers and how own team integrates with others to accomplish own work. May lead a project team of small to moderate scope with moderate level of guidance and direction. Escalates issues to management and uses prescribed guidelines or policies in analyzing situations and resolving problems to deliver continuous business results. 
• Leadership:  No supervisory responsibility; may provide informal guidance to new team members. 
• Supply Chain Design:  Supply Chain representative within a franchise or product line, supporting the end-to-end supply chain design. (e.g., New Product Launches, Acquisitions, Integrations, Site Transfers Optimized Product Flow, Resiliency)

 
Required qualifications:

• 3+ years’ experience in Supply Chain Planning, materials management, manufacturing planning or inventory control function 
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in business or supply chain or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Working experience with DRP, MPS, MRP, SAP or ERP System 
• PC skills utilizing such software programs as Excel, Word  and PowerPoint 
• Consistently performs to a high level of accuracy and with a high attention to detail in all tasks. 
• Adaptable, flexible, and willing to accept new ideas, processes, and procedures. 
• Speaks fluently English
• Ability to work independently and with business stakeholders to achieve business objectives. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

•  Apics Certification is a plus 
• Working experience with Kinaxis/Rapid Response & SAP  

Requisition ID: 598456

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!