Senior Transport Planner

2 days ago


Singapore Medtronic Full time

**Careers That Change Lives
**As a global leader in medical technology, services and solutions, Medtronic improves the health and lives of millions of people each year. We believe our deep clinical, therapeutic and economic expertise can help address the complex challenges - such as rising costs, aging populations and the burden of chronic disease - faced by families and healthcare systems today. But we can’t do it alone. That’s why we’re committed to partnering in new ways and developing powerful solutions that deliver better patient outcomes.

Founded in 1949 as a medical repair company, we're now among the world's largest medical technology, services and solutions companies, employing more than 85,000 people worldwide, serving physicians, hospitals and patients in more than 160 countries. Join us in our commitment to take healthcare Further, Together.

**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 and policies.
- 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 policies, 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.
- Lead projects as assigned.

**Minimum Requirements**
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain related field
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a Logistic - Transportation role.
- Knowledge of transportation operations and freight tendering / tracking processes.
- Knowledge of various modes within the Transportation Industry
- TMS knowledge.
- Data analytics skills.
- Hands-on mentality
- Self-starter with strong aptitude to think critically, solve problems, and drive improvements in a professional and respectful manner.
- Ability to work with ambiguity
- Skillful negotiator with strong ability to influence.
- Ability to work within a team and cross-functionally, building relationships, influence and collaborate with peers.
- Resolve conflicts/discrepancies positively and professionally. Strong communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work with people at all levels of the organization.

**Nice to have**
- Experience working in a US multinational (matrix organization) is a plus.
- Experience working within the healthcare environment is beneficial.
- Supply Chain Management expertise
- DG knowledge Expertise Trade knowledge Expertise

**About Medtronic
**Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

**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. The physical demands described within the Day in the Life section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.


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