Senior Purchasing / Planning Manager

Overview

Purpose : Responsible for management and execution of materials function within plant operations, including material scheduling, planning and procurement. The position will 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.

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 in 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.).
• Resolve issues related to kind, count or condition of raw material as received into the plant.
• Ensure raw materials are transported, handled and stored according to material specifications and in a manner that prevents damage, degradation or mixed work.
• Participate and assign resource support to meet requirements of product launch activities.
• Manage inventory review and reserves process in conjunction with site finance, including execution of transactions and physical disposition of materials identified as excess, expired and obsolete.
• Demonstrate adept use of SAP, PDM, HRConnect, LMS and BW.
• Manage department budget activities.
• Report summary performance to senior management and elevate appropriately.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with internal customers and / or sister plants.
• Develop and implement commodity strategies that improve 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 and 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.

Qualifications

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.

Position

Planning and Procurement Manager (Based at Kulim High Tech Park, Kedah)

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