Associate 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 a limited scope. 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

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

Buyer

Plan materials requirements and provide to Irvine to support production schedules and new product launches with a limited scope, 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

Logistics

Liaise with the warehouse team for shipping and receiving of material

Ensure shipment of materials by applying knowledge of import and export laws and regulations

Other incidental duties assigned by Leadership

What you'll need (Required):

Other: in Diploma in Material Management or related field, 3 Years experience related experience Required or

Bachelor's Degree in related field , 1 Year experience Required

Experience in purchasing, logistics and/or production control Preferred

What else we look for (Preferred):

Good computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite

Good written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills

Good problem-solving and critical thinking skills

Good knowledge and understanding of Edwards policies, procedures and guidelines relevant to purchasing material, logistics, and/or production control

Good knowledge of material requirements planning (MRP) and inventory management programs (e.g., Kanban, Min/Max)

Good 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