Associate Manufacturing Planning Manager

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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:

This role is responsible for supervising team members on the Maple Grove Polymers Planning team. The team consists of supply chain professionals who interface daily with production in Maple Grove and various customers, both internal and external, to the Maple Grove site. Related responsibilities include the oversight of planning and scheduling production activities to meet customer service level objectives while assuring a continuous production flow.  This role provides leadership for key processes such as SIOP, SIOE, and CI/LBP projects.  A successful candidate should have strong technical and process capabilities along with the ability to influence cross functionally and cross regionally. This individual will possess the ability to lead projects, give work direction and execute manufacturing/materials strategy and tactics.

Your Responsibilities will Include:

• Management of the daily, weekly, and monthly planning processes.
• Supervise production planners, setting and monitoring their goals to align with site strategy.
• Proactively manage supply shortages, communicating potential issues to manufacturing, sister sites, GSC and senior management.
• Facilitate the investigation of component outages and lead groups to consensus on root causes and corrective actions to avoid similar outages in the future.
• Determine and manage manufacturing priorities directly and through the manufacturing planners.
• Track schedule versus actual production, investigating over/under production and making decisions on future build plan while ensuring alignment with FG manufacturing site.
• Facilitate manufacturing planning handshake during the monthly SIOP process
• Ensure process adherence and management of master data elements, including safety stock, yields, lead-time, etc.
• Provide guidance to planners as they create and work through CI projects.
• Manage net requirements, past due production orders, past due planned orders and order reservations to pass on the most complete and accurate MRP signal to purchasing.
• Monitor and drive adoption of Rapid Response for integrated supply planning (Fusion).
• Foster sister site relationships during cross site execution and supply management meetings (SIOE/SIOP), facilitating meeting when necessary, and ensure accurate data is represented at each meeting.
• Owns WIP and subassembly inventory, and projections for inventory planning.
• Identify and implement significant continuous improvements.
• Utilize tools learned through LBP training to drive continuous improvement of planning processes as well as planning support of all Operations metrics.
• Measures key metrics, i.e. inventory, customer service levels, component outages, past due production orders, plan vs. actual, healthy stock etc.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in operations, manufacturing, materials planning, supply chain, or a related field. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Strong knowledge of SAP, Rapid Response (or comparable ERP) system
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization as well as with external vendors 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous leadership and people management experience (1+ years)
• Purchasing experience
• APICS certification (CPIM/CSCP)

Requisition ID: 596538

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance testing requirements for safety-sensitive positions. This role deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a drug test as a pre-employment requirement/ The foal of the drug testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.

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.