[Hiring] Materials Planner @Zimmer Colombia

Role Description

The Materials Planner ensures that the supply of materials meets the production schedule and minimum stock levels to ensure operational and production reliability. This role must also communicate to a variety of groups around materials shortages, volumes, and capacity. This requires the ability to maintain strong relationships both internally and externally to ensure supply of materials meets requirements. In doing so, this position helps Zimmer Biomet commit to the highest standards of patient safety and quality in our products and services and to world-class integrity and ethical business practices.

How You'll Create Impact

• Strategy & Vision: Develops, maintains, and communicates materials schedules, inventory positions, and product costs to supply planning, manufacturing operations and others, as necessary.
• Operations:
  • Analyze requirements trends to support current and future production plans from operations planning.
  • Generate and action direct materials needs utilizing and interpreting messages from the material requirements plan (MRP).
  • Schedule the supply of direct materials and components to meet production requirements and minimum safety stock levels at Zimmer Biomet.
  • Communicate raw materials shortages, update supply plans and execute on follow up actions, as necessary.
  • Communicate with suppliers regarding future planned volumes, capacity, and capacity availability.
  • Reconcile supply non-conformances, return of product, and re-planning of material needs.
  • Escalate supplier capacity related issues and overall performance issues to sourcing team / commodity management.
  • Develop, implement and evaluate processes for material delivery from supplier to point of use.
  • Implement all processes to agreed standards and targets and support continuous improvement initiatives and identify areas of improvement; includes setting of standard costs, and monitoring and resolving purchase price variance drivers.
  • Monitor inventory levels against target levels.
  • Support inventory checks to validate inventory accuracy.
  • Minimize obsolete stock and ensure business is left with minimum liability.

Qualifications

• BS or BA in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, or other related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in supply chain, project management, planning, or IT systems, strongly preferred to have experience in more than one area.
• Experience with medical devices preferred.
• Experience with one or more ERP system preferred.
• Excel Advanced level.
• English high proficiency.

Requirements

• Knowledge of supply chain planning and management.
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines and produce outputs on a regular, timely basis.
• Understanding of end to end supply chain interactions, activities, and underlying interdependencies.
• Ability to use analytical tools to issue, support, and execute decisions.
• Analytical skills and ability to extract meaning from information from various sources of data.
• Ability to communicate effectively both upwards and across the organization.

Physical Requirements

• Travel Expectations: 5%