Global Planning Analyst

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At MicroPort, we relentlessly strive to master every detail of our medical solutions with the purpose of prolonging and reshaping the lives of patients everywhere. We welcome motivated and talented people who want to join our dynamic and inclusive company, working together to deliver meaningful medical breakthroughs. In order to accomplish this, we hold true to our core values of Quality, Integrity, Accountability, Efficiency, Innovation, Aspiration, Dedication & Collaboration. Come and join Team MicroPort!

Why You'll Love MicroPort

You will find our team atmosphere challenging and rewarding. In addition to working with a world-class team, receiving a competitive base salary and bonus opportunities, our U.S. employees also enjoy the following benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Maternity Leave, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Bereavement, 401(k) (up to 4% match with vesting from day 1), PTO (Starting at 18 days each year), Paid Holidays (10 each year), Employee Assistance Program, Education Assistance...and more! At MicroPort, we care about our employees and encourage them to make healthy lifestyle choices and embrace wellness opportunities to maintain their very best health and wellbeing.

• Hybrid Working Schedule Available*

Overall Summary

As a Global Planning Analyst, you will be responsible for maintaining RCCP capacity supply plans, and master production schedules that balance capacity, inventory, cost, lead time, and risk in accordance with supply planning management best practices. In addition, this role will be responsible for identifying supply plan constraints, tracking, and adhering to KPIs and coordinating across engineering, operations, and finance teams to evaluate and recommend potential solutions when issues arise. The solutions developed by the individual in this role will be delivered to leadership through a high-tempo rhythm of business that demands the ability to develop robust analysis and reporting skills and documentation, communicate crisply, and drive changes on short intervals. This role requires experience in business strategy, supply planning, total cost to serve, S&OP, statistical inventory management methods, advanced planning systems and methodologies, and IT infrastructure concepts. This role will also be responsible for enabling tools and developing processes to analyze trends, root causes and implementing both tactical and strategic initiatives to improve supply continuity, ability to project disruptions, while minimizing global inventories.

Your duties will include:

• Drive Infrastructure Supply Planning and S&OP, develops 0-to-36-month capacity and/or resource plans and responsible for balancing capacity among qualified suppliers and internal manufacturing.

• Prepare, present, and discuss data center supply strategy with senior leadership relating to cost, lead time, risk, and technical/operational constraints.

• Document key demand and supply drivers and dependencies and input processes to signal critical infrastructure. Support demand review meetings, conduct regular communication and supply review meetings to ensure schedule adherence, service levels and inventory targets are met. Communicates risks and elevates issues that require resolution.

• Identify, evaluate, and implement supply planning improvements drawing on statistical methods, supply planning principles, S&OP best practices, and emerging software technology capabilities.

• Work across a diverse group of stakeholders to ensure we collaboratively improve, adapt, and adopt our processes and supporting software systems to support rapidly changing business requirements.

• Builds and manages key relationships needed for supply planning. Drives collaboration and alignment on plans; cross-functional relationships. Reviews and communicates forecast adjustments and their impact on Manufacturing Operations and Customer Service.

• Drives long-term strategy for plans and drives additional forecast variability, and with longer-term planning horizons. Performs root cause analysis of service shortfalls and develops and communicates corrective actions.

Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

About You

We might be a great match if you are a Subject Matter Expert in Supply Planning Strategies:

• Demonstrated leadership working across cultures and functions under tight deadlines with strong analytical skills, written and verbal communication and managerial skillsets.

• Excellent communicator and demonstrated ability to influence and facilitate cross-functional teams.

• Demonstrated ability to Program Manage complex, efforts of supply planning processes. Must have knowledge of currently available technologies associated with planning, managing, and analyzing the supply chain.

• Excellent communicator and demonstrated ability to influence and facilitate cross-functional corporate teaming.

• In-depth knowledge of ERP systems (JDE/SAP), Advanced Supply Planning,

• Supply Planning Horizons and long-range demand/supply planning, Demand vs Supply Analysis, Rough Cut Capacity Planning and Production capacity planning

Licensure, Registration and/or Certification

Sigma/Advanced Leadership Training desired.

YOUR EDUCATION

Required: BS/BA in a relevant discipline

Preferred: MBA

YOUR EXPERIENCE

At least 3 years' experience in Supply Planning, Master Planning, Production Planning, Buying / Planning and/or Procurement, business solutions architecture to include experience with Supply Collaboration platforms preferably JDE and/or SAP.