[{"country_short": "USA", "city": "Minnetonka", "description": "Supply Chain Manager\nJob Requisition #: 11735\nDate Posted: 02/01/2012\nCategory: Purchasing\nLocation: Minnetonka - MN - USA\n\n\nAbout Us\nOur teams produce game-changing ideas and life-changing results. A career at St. Jude Medical puts you on the leading edge of medical technology, working for a company driven by its entrepreneurial culture and its passion for quality. Isn't this the kind of change you would like in your life?\n\n\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We currently have this position open in our Cardiovascular Division:\n\nJob Overview\nSummary:  Provide leadership to the Supply Chain organization and ensure business service level objectives are met. Coordinate and oversee key supply chain planning functions: demand planning, launch planning, master data maintenance, capacity planning, production execution, inventory target management, and capacity allocation. This position will serve as the key point of contact for Operations, R&D, and Clinical supply chain activities. Analyze economics of inventory investments to attain the highest service levels with lowest inventory investment. Develop and implement supply chain business process improvements.\n\nDuties and Responsibilities:\nManage worldwide finished goods inventories using best practice supply chain replenishment methodologies. Deliver accurate forecasts by partnering with Marketing and geographies that set the stage for existing business, new product launches, or distribution channel changes.\n\u2022 Continual focus upon reducing costs and improving inventory turnover and customer service levels\n\u2022 Diagnose inventory overages and shortages. Execute plan to maintain target inventory levels.\n\u2022 Generate production plans necessary to achieve business operating plans and provide for production efficiency while maintaining service level objectives\n\u2022 Analyze new product launch requirements to determine optimal inventory management strategy\n\u2022 Manage stores inventory levels, inventory integrity, and the consumption / replenishment process.\n\u2022 Monitor production flows to ensure timely production, shipping, and receipts\n\u2022 Communicate, maintain, and enhance supply chain performance metrics and ensure all supply chain performance metrics are achieved including service level, timely work orders, inventory turns, and target inventory levels.\n\u2022 Build a high performing team by demonstrating the ability to attract, develop, and retain high potential employees\n\u2022 Responsible for ERP master data accuracy and maintenance. Establish demand requirements and provide leadership to the plant execution functions.\n\u2022 Responsible for developing strategic and operational plans and for coordinating supply chain activities in support of business objectives.\n\u2022 Execute the Sales and Operations Planning Process\n\u2022 Develop continuous improvement efforts which promote supply chain efficiency and business profitability\n\u2022 Work with program management and engineering throughout product life cycle to identify and implement supply chain strategies which support product and process cost improvements, lead time reductions and internal inventory optimization.\n\nEducation, Experience, Personal and Technical Skills:\n\u2022 BS in Materials Management, Business, Finance or a related field. MBA preferred.\n\u2022 5+ years of related DRP, MRP with a minimum of 3 years in a supply chain managerial role.\n\u2022 Must understand integrated supply chain and logistic concepts and have solid analytical skills.\n\u2022 Must be a very hands on manager, highly skilled in MRP, DRP, Advanced Excel, Access,\n\u2022 Demonstrated project management experience.\n\u2022 Excellent written and verbal communication skills.\n\u2022 Must have solid multitasking ability and work independently and take direction from others.\n\u2022 Ability to constructively interact with a range of personalities and positions, both inside and outside the organization.\n\u2022 Medical device experience and familiarity with SAP ERP experience preferred.\n\u2022 LEAN and/or Six Sigma experience required.\n\n\n\n|E-mail this position \nSubmit Resume or C.V.", "date_new": "2012-02-01 18:39:03", "url": "http://jobs.sjm.com/xml/26244547/job", "country": "United States", "company": "St. Jude Medical", "title": "Supply Chain Manager", "reqid": "11735", "state": "Minnesota", "state_short": "MN", "location": "Minnetonka, MN", "uid": 26244547}]