Materials Planner

Zimmer Biomet · Bogotá

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered and recognised.

What You Can Expect

The Materials Planner ensures that the supply of materials meet the production schedule and minimum stock levels to ensure operational and production reliability. This role must also communicate to a variety of groups around materials shortages, volumes, and capacity. This requires the ability to maintain strong relationships both internally and externally to ensure supply of materials meets requirements. In doing so, this position helps Zimmer Biomet commit to the highest standards of patient safety and quality in our products and services and to world-class integrity and ethical business practices.

How You'll Create Impact

Strategy & Vision

Develops, maintains, and communicates materials schedules, inventory positions, and product costs to supply planning, manufacturing operations and others, as necessary.

Operations

Analyze requirements trends to support current and future production plans from operations planning. Generate and action direct materials needs utilizing and interpreting messages from the material requirements plan (MRP)
Schedule the supply of direct materials and components to meet production requirements and minimum safety stock levels at Zimmer Biomet
Communicate raw materials shortages, update supply plans and execute on follow up actions, as necessary
Communicate with suppliers regarding future planned volumes, capacity, and capacity availability.
Reconcile supply non-conformances, return of product, and re-planning of material needs
Escalate supplier capacity related issues and overall performance issues to sourcing team / commodity management
Develop, implement and evaluate processes for material delivery from supplier to point of use
Implement all processes to agreed standards and targets and support continuous improvement initiatives and identify areas of improvement; includes setting of standard costs, and monitoring and resolving purchase price variance drivers
Monitor inventory levels against target levels
Support inventory checks to validate inventory accuracy
Minimize obsolete stock and ensure business is left with minimum liability

What Makes You Stand Out

Knowledge of supply chain planning and management
Strong communication skills
Strong negotiation skills
Ability to work to deadlines and produce outputs on a regular, timely basis
Understanding of end to end supply chain interactions, activities, and underlying interdependencies
Ability to use analytical tools to issue, support, and execute decisions
Analytical skills and ability to extract meaning from information from various sources of data
Ability to communicate effectively both upwards and across the organization

Your Background

BS or BA in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, or other related field
3-5 years of experience in supply chain, project management, planning, or IT systems, strongly preferred to have experience more than one area
Experience with medical devices preferred
Experience with one or more ERP system preferred
Excel Advanced level
High English proficiency

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