Analyst, Planner/Buyer

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world. 

How you will make an impact:
Planner
• Develop and schedule the Manufacturing Production Plan from the Master Production Schedule requirements with some level of complexity. Development includes the following:

• Manage issues preventing execution of the MPS and production plan. Issues include but are not limited to non conforming materials or processes, material or equipment availability, completing unplanned requirements

• Analyze resource availability, develop short and mid range capacity plans with manufacturing teams, and lead teams to ensure plans are met
• Generate work orders using system (e.g., JDE)
• Manage work order progress, including working with production and other supporting departments (e.g., quality, microbiology, engineering) to ensure production plans are met
• Provide ship schedule to Supply Chain/Demand team
• Creation of reports of key performance indicators and identify opportunities for potential report automation and drive these to completion
• Establish and maintain gross inventory targets with a limited scope. Includes developing action plans to minimize inventory exposure and for scrapping or mitigating excess and obsolete parts based on business information, and assess inventory management utilizing ENOMS

Logistics
• Liaise with the warehouse team for shipping and receiving of material with some level of complexity
• Ensure shipment of materials by applying knowledge of import and export laws and regulations

Buyer

• Plan materials requirements and provide to Irvine to support production schedules and new product launches with some level of complexity, including:
• Working with the supplier to ensure materials are made to the proper specs
• Leading cross functional teams to resolve obstacles to meeting the schedule, including, but not limited to, resolving issues with non conforming material, unclear specifications or vendor capacity constraints

• Expediting purchase orders as required. Includes expediting material from the receiving dock though receiving inspection, to production stores

• Other incidental duties assigned by Leadership

What you'll need (Required):
• Other: in Diploma in Material Management or related field, 5 years of related experience required or
• Bachelor's Degree in related field, 3 years of related experience required
• Experience in purchasing, logistics and/or production control;

• Experience working in a medical device and/or regulated industry preferred

What else we look for (Preferred):
• Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience MRP and ERP (e.g. JDE) preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills
• Good problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Solid knowledge and understanding of Edwards policies, procedures and guidelines relevant to purchasing material, logistics, and/or production control
• Solid knowledge of material requirements planning (MRP) and inventory management programs (e.g., Kanban, Min/Max)
• Solid knowledge of market and economic indicators, practices and procurement procedures
• Good problem-solving skills
• Strict attention to detail
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control