Supply Planner

**Careers that Change Lives
**Join a global industry leader in innovative medical technology and grow your career As a Supply Chain Planner for Medtronic’s Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) business, you will play a critical role in the development and execution of supply plans to meet customer requirements.

**A Day in the Life
**We are currently in an exciting time as the business is embracing best practice Supply chain principles and this role will be an opportunity to be at the forefront of this. Reporting to the ANZ Senior Supply Chain Planning Manager and based in our office in Sydney, the Supply Chain Planner will play an integral role in the ANZ Supply Planning for our Cardiovascular operating units. This is a **maternity leave contract (12 months) based in Sydney Head Office in Macquarie Park **. The role has flexible/hybrid work arrangement.

Key Responsibilities:

- Demonstrate business partnering with Product Managers, Marketing Managers, Territory Managers, and other internal stakeholders.
- Manage key inventory planning functions to provide quality and timely service to internal and external customers.
- Review the weekly inventory levels and ad hoc reports as required for the Business and place Stock Transfer Orders with appropriate Sourcing Plants and to Downstream locations/Agents.
- Liaise with Product Managers and Sales staff to help formulate strategies for inventory optimisation, taking into account changing market dynamics, phase in and phase out plans for other influences.
- Monitor and improve product availability in conjunction with identifying initiatives to optimise inventory levels.
- Work with Inventory team to maintain focus on potential inventory obsolescence write off risks.
- Report as required to the stakeholders on product availabilities to facilitate the distribution to customers.
- Review and update Enterprise Inventory Optimisation (EIO) targets. Maintain data integrity of system master data to enable the planning system to generate accurate supply chain plans.

**Must Have**:

- Degree in business or formal tertiary qualification in Supply Chain/Operations Management
- At least 3-5 years’ experience in a similar role, with an emphasis on Supply Chain Planning
- Able to demonstrate a solid background in Supply Planning with good understanding of Supply Chain Principles
- Able to demonstrate a background in Supply Chain Analysis Experience with advanced supply chain planning systems such as SAP R3, APO SNP

**Our Offer:
**In our 5th Tenet of our Mission, we recognize the personal worth of employees by providing an employment framework that allows personal satisfaction in work accomplished, security, advancement opportunity, and means to share in the company's success.

We believe in rewarding our staff with a complete package of benefits designed to support them at every career and life stage. As a result, our employees have access to the following benefits, to name a few:

- Range of on-demand online health and wellness training resources, apps, videos, and communities
- We invest in professional training and development for employees at all levels.
- Our Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- foster awareness and inclusion in the workplace.
- Various insurance benefits include life and disability, salary continuances, salary sacrifice and superannuation. We have generous employee referral programs, corporate discount programs, leave benefits, and more

**About Medtronic
**Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend Life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.