Senior Manager Global Supply Chain Planning MDS – External Suppliers

Job Description Summary

The Sr Manager, Global Supply Planning for External Suppliers is a key leadership role in the Global Supply Chain Planning organization, reporting to the Associate Director Global Supply Chain Planning – AAD. This position will be based in Salt Lake City, UT. The role has responsibility for working with cross‑functional stakeholders to ensure the right Supply Chain Strategies and Processes are in place to support global and regional business and customer needs.

The Sr Manager directly supports the AAD Global Platform Business Director(s) and the Regional Business Leaders, Manufacturing Operations Leaders, Finance Leaders, Marketing & Sales Leaders, R&D Leaders, the BDX Corporate Supply Chain Leaders and Regional Supply Chain Leaders to drive overall business performance for the assigned portfolio. This includes delivering and improving overall service levels, inventory health levels, and cost saving objectives.

The role requires the ability to balance and stretch the often conflicting needs of cash inventory investments, efficient manufacturing, financial results, and customer service levels.

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of Med Tech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self.

• Devise and coordinate Supply Chain (SC) strategies on region/global supply chain planning, and systems.
• External Supply Network Planning:
  Ensure alignment between external suppliers and BD’s global supply strategy.
• Supplier
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Drive SIOP/IBP processes with external partners and actively manage risks of supply disruptions.
• Ensure adherence to BD standards and regulatory requirements across the external supply base.
• Drives success by leading the monthly Global IBP (SIOP) process‑components related to the role; this specifically includes the “Supply Review” which drives insights on capacity vs demand, supply gaps, inventory (health) review, New Product Introductions & portfolio simplification; both on planner level as well as on different Executive levels.
• The role personally ensures connection & alignment between the Platform process components, the Regional Demand process components and the MDS components of the IBP process.
• Ensure the supply chain network operates to meet the needs for assigned BD market customers on a consistent basis. Key performance measures of this include On Time & In Full, Backorder $, Inventory $‑DIO, Inventory Health and Write‑Offs (E&O).
• Ensures the establishment of target inventory levels and mix to achieve management objectives for service levels, backorder incidence/duration and inventory‑DIO goals.
• Deploy the Long‑term planning Strategy for the External suppliers together with the Region, Procurement and Operational Leaders to ensure the right Capital investments are done on time to meet business needs.
• Drives Overall Operations/Supply Chain process optimization by identifying and implementing best practices to improve external Supply Chain service and efficiency metrics (Back‑order, On‑time In‑Full, etc.).
• Ensures robust measurable short‑ and long‑term global processes are utilized driving consensus amongst Regions, Sales/marketing, Platform, Finance and Operations which is utilized to project and monitor business financial performance and operating plans. This includes budgeting, financial forecasting, inventory management, capacity planning and sourcing.
• Strong process improvement across IBP and Demand/Supply Mgmt. with specific improvement focused on New Product introductions, zero‑based BO mindset and Customer centricity.
• Aware of future SC trends & adopt best SC practices;
  Support & Ensure best SC practice sharing…