Senior Purchasing/Planning Manager

Purpose Statement:

Responsible for management and execution of materials function within plant operations, includes material scheduling, planning and procurement.  Position will also contribute to development of key strategies supporting continuous improvement and alignment of materials management practices.  Tasked with leveraging relationships between BSC sites, divisions, and strategic supplier base to improve organizational efficiency and optimize business and financial opportunities.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead internal SI&OP process and review with SLT.  Ensure effective SI&OP processes in place with divisional partners.

• Ensure alignment with production function on OTD metrics.

• Identify, prioritize, coach and lead continuous improvement efforts, participate on and conduct continuous improvement activities.

• Define metric reports for key performance parameters.

• Participate as a multi-site member of Materials/Procurement Councils, and learn/locally deploy best practices and opportunities found through benchmarking other BSC site practices.

• Ensure compliance with department procedures and quality standards (FDA, CGMP, QSR, ISO, etc.).

• Assumes responsibility to resolve issues related to kind, count or condition of raw material as received into the plant.

• Ensures raw materials are transported, handled and stored according to material specifications and in a manner that prevents damage, degradation or mixed work.

• Participates and assigns resource support to meet requirements of product launch activities.

• Manages inventory review and reserves process in conjunction with site finance, includes execution of transactions and physical disposition of materials identified as excess, expired and obsolete.

• Demonstrates adept use of SAP, PDM, HRConnect, LMS and BW.

• Manages department budget activities.

• Reports summary performance to senior management and elevates appropriately.

• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with internal customers and/or sister plants.

• Develop and implement commodity strategies that improve on a balanced tradeoff of sourcing quality, cost, risk and growth.

• Support BSC corporate quality objectives through supplier identification, evaluation and ongoing management.

• Build relationships with outside suppliers and respective internal leads to increase organizational integration and efficiency.

• Guide internal plant requestors through a holistic & systematic approach to supplier selection and management.

• Ensure sourcing processes conform to and are conducted within applicable state and federal laws and regulations as well as all Boston Scientific business and ethical guidelines.

Job Responsibilities:

• Candidate must process at least Bachelor Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Management, Production Operation Management or equivalent; MBA preferred but not required.

• Minimum 10 years of relevant working experience in manufacturing.

• At least 5 years of people leadership experience with proven track record of building collaborative and high performing teams.

• Familiarity of the Med Tech industry will be advantageous.

• Strong knowledge of planning processes and systems.

• Demonstrated operational excellence (Lean/ Six Sigma) experience.

• Project management experience with formal accreditation is a plus.

• Knowledge of SAP (S4HANA) and Rapid Response is required.

• Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills.

• Ability to navigate matrix org.

 About Us

As a global medical technology leader for more than 40 years, our mission at Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) is to transform lives through innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients. If you’re looking to truly make a difference to people both around the world and around the corner, there’s no better place to make it happen.