Stryker

Kit Planning Manager

Stryker  •  Provincie Noord-Holland, NL (Hybrid)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

What you will do:

  • Providing leadership and management to kit planning team.
  • Coach, develop and hire new talent within the team.
  • Responsible for the overall team motivation, setting objectives, performance review and development for the organization in their region.
  • Develop and implement the appropriate kit sourcing and build strategy and inventory strategy.
  • Single go to person for related divisions at EU level for kit and consignment inquiries.
  • Budget accountability for European kit Investment and Inventory, including managing of the free stock for kit build in Venlo.
  • Provide direct input, advice, and guidance to the European sales Divisions in relation to the best options for sourcing the Kits and Assets being requested by the divisions.
  • Lead initiatives to shorten time to market for new kit deployment.
  • Lead initiatives together with divisions on a European level balance inventory across the region to optimize service and cost.
  • Lead and initiate discussion and present recommendations for asset and inventory optimization to divisional leadership teams.
  • Working closely with divisions on forecast, kit planning and inventory balancing.
  • Balance EU assets, analyse STC fleet holistically for Europe and own the European STC fleet in Venlo.
  • Take leadership on creating new metrics to drive inventory and cost optimizations, for example STC VS LTC strategy in the countries.
  • Manage Slow moving kits and balance local VS central.
  • Owning the process from Forecast for new kits, inventory planning (for kits), netting and purchasing.
  • Provide guidance and advisory to the Divisions for the most cost-effective decisions on CERs.
  • Focus on making procedural changes and new or more effective ways to accomplish tasks, achieving team goals, or performing team functions, standardized across Europe.
  • Play an active role in the European Operations team as we strive to implement a world class asset and inventory management strategy. Critical to this will be the identification of appropriate benchmarks and the sharing of best practice.
  • Take full ownership or participate in projects to further improve European asset and inventory management capabilities resulting in increasing customer satisfaction, increasing efficiency, lower costs and optimized inventory levels.
  • Build, liaise and maintain relationships and collaborates with colleagues across functions (Operations, Finance, etc.), divisions (Sales, Marketing) and leadership.
  • Provide evidence and reporting of budget spent to the divisions.
  • Provide feedback and detailed ROI reports to decision makers.
  • Ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) related to assets and inventory are monitored and achieved.
  • Tracking and analysis of STC and Demo fleet (turns, returns, etc.).

What You Need:

  • University degree, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Fluent in both spoken and written English.
  • IT-knowledge (E.g. Microsoft Office with skills in Excel, PowerBi, Oracle).
  • Preferred: Lean(green)belt.
  • Preferred: Project management certification.
  • +8 Years of experience withinSupply Chain PlanningorAsset Management.
  • At least 2 years people management experience.
  • Experience from creating a strategy for an organizational in aninternational environment and translating the strategy into a pro-active execution plan.
  • Experience with continuous improvement and changemanagement.
  • Drive SOP alignment and standardization.
  • Influence skills to work with senior leaders and drive agenda and strategy.
  • Relationship building experience acrossdivisions
  • Candemonstrateahighlevelof problem-solving skills, especially complex problems.

Desirable:

  • Experience in international environment

  • Experience creating reports using data modelling software

Travel Percentage: 10%

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About Stryker

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com and careers.stryker.com.

Facts:

● 2024 Sales: $22.6 billion

● Industry: Medical Instruments & Supplies

● Employees: 53,000 worldwide

● 40 years of sales growth leading up to 2020

● 44+ Manufacturing and R&D Locations Worldwide

● $1.5 billion spent on research and development in 2024

● ~14,200 patents owned globally in 2024

● Products sold in ~75 countries

● Fortune 500 Company

● 7 consecutive years as one of Fortune's World's Best Workplaces

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Manufacturing & Production
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10,000+ employees
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Kalamazoo, MI
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