DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a Asset Manager & CommSCExcellence Lead,locatedin Warsaw,Poland or Prague, Czechia

The Asset Manager & CommSCExcellence Lead is the centralintegrator (“glue”) between Commercial and Supply Chain, ensuring alignment between commercial strategy, demand signals, asset deployment, and supply capabilities

The role owns the end-to-end economic steering of assets and consignment structures across Hip, Knee, and Shoulder, while driving IBP execution from a commercial perspective to enable sustainable, capital-efficient, profitable growth

Key outcomes:

• Growth, Profitability, and Cash Flow balance

• Commercial-plan-aligned forecasting and deployment

• Process stability, transparency, and compliance

Key partners: Commercial Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance

Strategic Accountability Areas

1. Commercial Asset & Consignment Management

(Evolution of the current Asset Manager role)

• Full ownership of the economic performance of consignment and asset structures (Hip, Knee, Shoulder)

• Analysis of customer contribution, revenue, profitability, and capital efficiency

• Definition of priorities tooptimize

• Asset footprint

• Inventory levels and turn rates

• CAPEX and SLOB exposure

• Steering Pull Back initiatives, including dashboard-based monthly reporting to BUD

• Ensuring full HCC and Code of Conduct compliance

2. Commercial Supply Chain Excellence (IBP-driven)

This person is the commercial owner of IBPexecution and the interface to Supply Chain

Demand, Forecasting & Deployment

• Own commercial demand alignment across:

• Revenue forecasting (direct vs trade)

• Non-revenue forecasting (>6-month horizon)

• Ensure demand signals areaccurate, complete, and actionable

• Align baseline, Risks & Opportunities (R&O) at CEE level

• Drive commercial prioritization and deployment decisions, especially under constrained supply

FOL & Opportunity Capturing

• Commercial lead for FOL governance and execution

• Ensure:

• FOL IDs capture implant & instrument needs in standard BOMs

• Brand-level accuracy and completeness

• Timely input, approval, and escalation

• Translate commercial opportunities into executable supply signals

3. IBP Governance & Process Integration

• Act as Commercial Process Owner for key IBP interfaces:

• Commercial Strategy & Opportunity Capturing

• Non-Revenue Forecasting & Deployment

• Revenue Forecasting

• Drive CEE-wide process clarity, including:

• R&R definitions

• Standardized documentation

• Tool usage (ILTIS, FOL, Pull Back, dashboards, etc.)

• Ensure transparency, discipline, and follow-through across markets

4. Cross-Functional Leadership & Change Management

• Operate as the single point of orchestration between:

• Sales

• Marketing

• Local & Regional Supply Chain

• Finance

• Quality

• Actively drive behavioral change toward:

• Data-driven decisions

• Forecast accountability

• Asset discipline

• Lead and coordinate IBP taskforces / workstreams in line with CEE governance

• Elevate issues with clear commercial impact framing (growth, profitability, cash)

What This Role Balances (from IBP Conclusions)

This role explicitlyownsthe trade-offs between:

• Growth (opportunity capturing, FOL, deployment)

• Profitability (customer contribution, asset efficiency)

• Cash Flow (turn rate, CAPEX, SLOB, inventory health)

And ensures commercial ambition is executable by supply chain — not aspirational.

Profile

Experience &Expertise

• 6–10+ years in:

• Orthopaedics MedTech

• Commercial Operations, Asset Management, or Supply Chain–Commercial interface roles

• Strong understanding of:

• Endoprosthetics(Hip/Knee/Shoulder)

• Consignment & instrument economics

• Forecasting & IBP principles

Core Strengths

• Strong commercial mindset with supply chain literacy

• Highly structured, analytical, and execution-driven

• Comfortable challenging both Sales and Supply Chain

• Credible communicator across functions and seniority levels

• Proven ability to run cross-functional governance without formal authority