Engineering Director of Automation
Medtronic
Salary
💰 $58,200 - $87,400 per year
Job Level
Junior
About the role
- Achieve planned inventory management Service Level, DSO, and Spoilage goals while maximizing operational efficiencies
- Review critical items and take necessary action to support end customer service level
- Review daily out of stock report, communicate to sales as needed and expedite orders appropriately
- Manage inbound POs by confirming for cost, quantity and dates, overdue orders, Overages, shorts, and damage, etc
- Maintain forecasting system parameters to manage demand changes customer events, business shifts, and seasonality changes as needed
- Demonstrate an intermediate level of proficiency of the Manhattan inventory planning tool DPR (demand planning system), to drive teams performance as indicated by DPR scorecards, dashboards and merchandising KPIs
- Support returns to suppliers as required
- Support product recalls as required
- Manage purchase order costing and date accuracy through confirmations and alerts
- Follow supplier and corporate market conditions/trends to identify purchasing opportunities
- Provide basic demand planning support and field feedback to Corporate Planner for action and/or alignment
Requirements
- 1+ year professional business experience or relevant Bachelor’s degree in lieu of experience
- Education: High school diploma or Bachelor’s degree; relevant retail/wholesale or distribution environment experience helpful
- Strong Excel skills
- Inventory Management/Purchasing experience in distributor with 10,000+ SKUs
- Ability to resolve conflicts quickly, research issues, and follow up with timely communication to all key stakeholders
- Ability to quickly learn to understand systems to answer basic inquiries without escalating
- Ability to work cross-functionally across the enterprise
- Proactive attention to detail and follow up
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Ability to understand/execute standard replenishment processes and best practices
