At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
In this role you will be part of the international team of professionals in our Center of Excellence. You will provide your expertise to support regional transportation and logistics processes and work in coordination with other business functions to ensure efficient transportation of goods to our customers and patients and support the enablement and execution of our Transportation Management System (TMS).
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Support the requirements and Information gathering to support TMS Design and Implementation
Act as a regional subject matter expert to ensure voice of business in TMS development
Develop and implement transportation policies and procedures which support customer and business objectives within the TMS platform
Plan, coordinate, schedule and oversee shipment activities as needed
Ensure Transportation planning supports timely deliveries, are cost-effective and adhere to safety regulations
Responsible for hiring and training transportation staff (analysts, logistics personnel supporting day to day execution, etc.)
Monitor transportation service level performance (3PL, carriers, suppliers, etc.) and associated KPIs/Metrics
Drive / implement continuous improvements and cost saving initiatives as necessary
Implement strategic changes as necessary
Communicate with carriers, suppliers/vendors, and customers to maintain strong relationships
Budget management and oversight
Must Haves
Bachelors degree required
Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience
Your Profile
Preferably 5+ experience in a Logistics/Transportation
Knowledge of transportation operations, freight tendering, and tracking processes
Broad experience in working with various modes of transportation
Experience in scheduling, logistics optimization, and managing to customer demands
TMS knowledge and data analytics skills
Supply Chain Management expertise
Dangerous Goods Expertise
Trade knowledge Expertise
Fluent in English both written and spoken
Customer focused, problem solver, with the ability to troubleshoot
Experience working within the healthcare environment
What We Offer
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:
Our global well-being program supports your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.
Medtronic Employee Assistance Program offers confidential support and resources to build and enhance employee and organizational resilience, productivity, teamwork and psychologically healthy workplaces.
Various insurance benefits include Inpatient and Outpatient Medical Insurance, Life, Disability and Accident Insurance.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here
