Job Description

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

We are an organisation driven to create the extraordinary. For more than 70 years, we’ve pioneered purpose-driven healthcare technology, continually pushing boundaries to transform patient outcomes.
This role will play a critical part in ensuring the right products are available at the right time to support our customers and patients. The Supply Chain Inventory Analyst will leverage data-driven insights to optimize inventory levels, improve product availability, reduce supply chain risks, and support operational excellence across the organization. By collaborating with cross-functional teams, the role will drive inventory performance, enhance service levels, and contribute to delivering life-changing healthcare solutions to the communities we serve.
The successful candidate will analyze inventory and supply chain data, identify trends and risks, proactively manage stock availability, and develop strategies that balance customer service requirements with inventory investment. Through continuous improvement initiatives and effective stakeholder engagement, this role will help ensure a resilient and efficient supply chain that supports our mission of improving patient outcomes. There will be 2 Headcounts available for this position.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Monitor inventory levels across distribution centers and Consignment locations.
• Analyze stock availability, excess inventory, and slow-moving items.
• Identify potential stockouts and recommend corrective actions.
• Manage inventory parameters such as: Par Levels, Safety stock, Reorder points, Lead times and Min/max levels
• Analyze historical sales trends and demand patterns to support forecasting activities.
• Collaborate with demand planners, sales teams, and procurement teams to understand future demand requirements.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Support inventory optimization initiatives.
• Ensure inventory counts are conducted and reconcile results with inventory records.
• Maintains controls over various types of inventories (e.g., Repair and maintenance goods, fixed assets, finished goods).

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Baccalaureate degree, preferably in Supply Chain or Logistics
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Inventory management, Supply chain planning, Demand planning.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Analytical Skills (Inventory forecasting, Demand analysis, Safety stock calculations, Root cause analysis of stockouts and overstock situations, Data interpretation and trend analysis, KPI reporting)
• ERP systems knowledge: SAP, MMX, Blue Yonder
• Strong attention to detail
• Problem-solving ability
• Communication and stakeholder management
• Time management
• Ability to work under pressure
• Presentation and reporting skills

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Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here