Boston Scientific Associate Manufacturing Planning Manager 

United States, Minnesota, Maple Grove 

91387353

Your Responsibilities will Include:

• Management of the daily, weekly, and monthly planning processes.
• Supervise production planners, setting and monitoring their goals to align with site strategy.
• Proactively manage supply shortages, communicating potential issues to manufacturing, sister sites, GSC and senior management.
• Facilitate the investigation of component outages and lead groups to consensus on root causes and corrective actions to avoid similar outages in the future.
• Determine and manage manufacturing priorities directly and through the manufacturing planners.
• Track schedule versus actual production, investigating over/under production and making decisions on future build plan while ensuring alignment with FG manufacturing site.
• Facilitate manufacturing planning handshake during the monthly SIOP process
• Ensure process adherence and management of master data elements, including safety stock, yields, lead-time, etc.
• Provide guidance to planners as they create and work through CI projects.
• Manage net requirements, past due production orders, past due planned orders and order reservations to pass on the most complete and accurate MRP signal to purchasing.
• Monitor and drive adoption of Rapid Response for integrated supply planning (Fusion).
• Foster sister site relationships during cross site execution and supply management meetings (SIOE/SIOP), facilitating meeting when necessary, and ensure accurate data is represented at each meeting.
• Owns WIP and subassembly inventory, and projections for inventory planning.
• Identify and implement significant continuous improvements.
• Utilize tools learned through LBP training to drive continuous improvement of planning processes as well as planning support of all Operations metrics.
• Measures key metrics, i.e. inventory, customer service levels, component outages, past due production orders, plan vs. actual, healthy stock etc.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in operations, manufacturing, materials planning, supply chain, or a related field. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Strong knowledge of SAP, Rapid Response (or comparable ERP) system
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization as well as with external vendors

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous leadership and people management experience (1+ years)
• Purchasing experience
• APICS certification (CPIM/CSCP)

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance testing requirements for safety-sensitive positions. This role deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a drug test as a pre-employment requirement/ The foal of the drug testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.