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A Day in the Life

The Senior Transportation Planner is responsible for the management and oversight of the movement of goods across the Medtronic Global Supply chain.
In addition, the Planner is responsible for managing our transportation providers and key partners to ensure the optimal balance of service, cost, and capacity. The planner will identify process improvements and drive meaningful changes across the business to improve service, while maintaining or lowering costs. The Transportation Planner will manage the day to day execution of their assigned region/activity, as well as drive results across the transportation function and the supply chain.
In this role, the planner will assist in the creation of the load, perform optimization as needed, and manage the end-to-end execution of the shipment activities.

Key Responsibilities:

•    Develops and implements transportation plans.
•    Partners with internal/external stakeholders, builds relationships to support supply chain end to end objectives. Builds relationship with operational leaders to provide superior service; responds to feedback to create solutions to unique market requirements.
•    Develop, implement, and lead on-boarding of new vendors, management procedures, processes, and standards.
•    Manage shipment exceptions, shipment prioritization and expedited shipments.
•    Leverage systems and technology to manage transportation network. Identify and execute opportunities to improve processes, service and reduce freight spend. 
•    Proactively monitor and strive to maintain high level of quality, accuracy and process consistency in the planning effort.
•    Support transportation related new functionalities and/or new systems implementations.
•    Partner with Transport planning team in other regions to ensure On Time Performance of cross regions shipments. Lead projects as assigned.

• Controls the flow of raw and finished goods, services, and information between point of origin through receipt at the manufacturing site, through to customer placement in order to meet customer or manufacturing requirements.
• Ensures the execution and continuous improvement of logistics processes, such as the replenishment system, data interchange systems, demand management, electronic data systems administration, and related functions.
• Ensures that customer service and time objectives are achieved within existing financial constraints in order to meet marketing and financial objectives.
• Builds relationships with manufacturing, suppliers, and customers through the resolution of delivery issues.
• Integrates market intelligence from operating entities, distribution, transportation, suppliers, and customers to continuously improve competitive position.

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor.
Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions.
Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.

Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area.
Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties .
Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area.
Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.

Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors.
Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product .

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires advanced knowledge of job area combining breadth and depth, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
May have practical knowledge of project management.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

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 90,000+ 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