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
As a global leader in medical technology, services and solutions, Medtronic improves the health and lives of millions of people each year. We believe our deep clinical, therapeutic and economic expertise can help address the complex challenges such as rising costs, aging populations and the burden of chronic disease faced by families and healthcare systems today. But we cant do it alone. Thats why were committed to partnering in new ways and developing powerful solutions that deliver better patient outcomes.
Founded in 1949 as a medical repair company, we're now among the world's largest medical technology, services and solutions companies, employing more than 85,000 people worldwide, serving physicians, hospitals and patients in more than 160 countries. Join us in our commitment to take healthcare Further, Together.
The Senior Transportation Planner is responsible for the management and oversight of the movement of goods across the Medtronic Global Supply chain.
In addition, the Planner is responsible for managing our transportation providers and key partners to ensure the optimal balance of service, cost, and capacity. The planner will identify process improvements and drive meaningful changes across the business to improve service, while maintaining or lowering costs. The Transportation Planner will manage the day to day execution of their assigned region/activity, as well as drive results across the transportation function and the supply chain.
In this role, the planner will assist in the creation of the load, perform optimization as needed, and manage the end-to-end execution of the shipment activities.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Develops and implements transportation plans and policies.
Partners with internal/external stakeholders, builds relationships to support supply chain end to end objectives. Builds relationship with operational leaders to provide superior service; responds to feedback to create solutions to unique market requirements.
Develop, implement, and lead on-boarding of new vendors, management policies, procedures, processes, and standards.
Manage shipment exceptions, shipment prioritization and expedited shipments.
Leverage systems and technology to manage transportation network. Identify and execute opportunities to improve processes, service and reduce freight spend.
Proactively monitor and strive to maintain high level of quality, accuracy and process consistency in the planning effort.
Support transportation related new functionalities and/or new systems implementations.
Partner with Transport planning team in other regions to ensure On Time Performance of cross regions shipments.
Lead projects as assigned.
Must Have
Bachelors degree required
Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience
Your Profile:
Minimum of 5 years experience in a Logistic Transportation role.
Knowledge of transportation operations and freight tendering / tracking processes.
Knowledge of various modes within the Transportation Industry
Experience with Transportation Planning and Optimisation
TMS knowledge and possess TMS Operational Planning experience
Experience working in a US multinational (matrix organization) is a plus.
Experience working within the healthcare environment is beneficial.
Experience in handling management of change.
Supply Chain Management expertise
SAP Knowledge
DG knowledge Expertise
Trade knowledge Expertise
Data analytics skills.
Hands-on mentality
Self-starter with strong aptitude to think critically, solve problems, and drive improvements in a professional and respectful manner.
Ability to work with ambiguity
Skillful negotiator with strong ability to influence.
Ability to work within a team and cross-functionally/regions, building relationships, influence and collaborate with peers.
Resolve conflicts/discrepancies positively and professionally.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work with people at all levels of the organization.
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.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
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
