Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world. 

Patients with mitral and tricuspid heart valve disease often have complex conditions with limited treatment options. Our Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies (TMTT) business unit is boldly pursuing an innovative portfolio of technologies to address a patient’s unmet clinical needs. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey. 

This Planner/Buyer will be responsible for production planning and purchasing for our EVOQUE product line.

How you'll make an impact:

• Plan materials requirements and place purchase orders from outside suppliers to support production schedules and new product launches, with increased complexity and volume
• Negotiate pricing and delivery
• Work with the supplier to ensure materials are made to the proper specs as well as returns when products doesn’t meet specifications
• Lead cross functional teams to resolve obstacles to meeting the schedule, including, but not limited to, resolving issues with non conforming material, unclear specifications or vendor capacity constraints
• Analyze current EW and VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) levels to determine if VMI release is warranted, and communicate inventory and future requirements to supplier
• Expedite purchase orders as required. Includes expediting material from the receiving dock though receiving inspection, to production stores
• Provide monthly forecasts to key suppliers
• Interplant transfers for items that the site supplies to other Edwards sites (including the creation of transfer orders)
• Develop the Manufacturing Production Plan from the Master Production Schedule and or project team requirements with increased complexity and volume and with higher level of autonomy
• Manage issues preventing execution of the MPS and production plan. Issues include but are not limited to non conforming materials or processes, material or equipment availability, completing unplanned requirements
• Analyze resource availability, develop short and mid range capacity plans with manufacturing teams, and lead teams to ensure plans are met
• Generate work orders using the Manufacturing Enterprise system
• Manage and prioritize work order progress, including working with production and other supporting departments (e.g., quality, microbiology, engineering) to ensure production plans are met
• Establish and maintain gross inventory targets with a limited scope. Includes developing action plans to minimize inventory exposure and for scrapping or mitigating excess and obsolete parts based on business information

What you'll need (Required):

• Bachelor's Degree with 3 years of previous related experience or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Planning experience
• Strong understanding of purchasing
• Experience working in a medical device and/or regulated industry
• APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society certification
• ASCM (Association for Supply Chain Management) certification
• Experience with new product purchasing
• Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite
• MRP system knowledge and usage
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills
• Good problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Full knowledge and understanding of Edwards policies, procedures and guidelines relevant to purchasing material and/or production control
• Solid knowledge of material requirements planning (MRP) and inventory management programs (e.g, JIT/Kanban, Min/Max)
• Solid knowledge of market and economic indicators, practices and procurement procedures
• Strict attention to detail
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
• Must be able to work in a team environment, including inter-departmental teams, representing the organization on specific projects, and vendors/suppliers
• Ability to build productive internal/external working relationships
• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control