Supply Chain Planner

Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew, we craft and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living!

To help us to continue to push these limits, we are seeking a Supply Planner to support us in planning, ordering and distributing products across our global supply chain network

You will work with an assigned portfolio of products, supplied by a mix of S+N Facilities and sub-contract manufacturers and be responsible for supervising the long-term planning of our product lines.

What will you be doing?

• Develop monthly/weekly supply plans to meet forecasted demand requirements, while optimizing capacity, inventory, and financial objectives.
• Responsible for the timely aggregation and dissemination of reports and communications.
• Responsible for preparing supply graphs for the next 18-24 months, Identifying risks and opportunities for supply plans, capacity, inventory, demand and market developments for areas of responsibility for presentation in Supply Reviews.
• Review daily and weekly service, back orders, stock coverage and demand reports, sequence un-forecasted and emergency orders, providing supply priorities to each manufacturing site and accurate product availability information to Network Planning and regional/global business units as the need arises.
• Identify and continuously improve planning tools and process.
• Monitor supplier performance and work with Procurement, Quality and Manufacturing teams in implementing remedial actions.
• Review and provide recommendations during the safety and target stocks review process.
• To apply high standards of occupational Health & Safety in the workplace to align with company policy and procedures.

What does success look like?

Our successful candidate will be educated in a suitable subject area such as APICS, CIPS etc and experience working in a system/process driven environment.

You'll have a firm grasp of the Quality and Regulatory requirements surrounding the medical device industry as well as being highly numerate and computer literate with the ability to tackle problems in a fast paced environment.

You. Unlimited

165 years of groundbreaking innovation requires a steadfast focus on what’s next. We’re passionate about you. You’re what’s next...

• Inclusion, Diversity and Equity: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Growing on Diversity, Learn more about our Employee Inclusion Groups on our website
• Your Future: Generous annual bonus and pension Schemes, Save As You Earn share options.
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Vacation and Time Off, Paid Holidays and Paid Volunteering Hours, so we can give back to our communities!
• Your Wellbeing: Private Health and Dental plans, Healthcare Cash Plans, Income Protection, Life Assurance and much more.
• Flexibility: Hybrid Working Model (For most professional roles).
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised, Mentorship.
• Extra Perks: Discounts on Gyms and fitness clubs, Salary Sacrifice Bicycle and Car Schemes and many other Employee discounts.

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