Senior Supply Planner

Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WS Audiology continues to grow as market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.

The Senior Supply Planner position will give you an excellent platform and opportunity to deep dive into the MedTech and hearing aid industry.

This is an individual contributor role with main role and mission to:

- Propagate material requirements to suppliers and secures supplier commits
- Address supply gaps with suppliers in collaboration with other operations teams and Procurement
- Lead accuracy in material planning, service levels and global material inventory levels

**other key responsibilities include**
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- Identify and understand supply (material/ components) risk, develop action plan to resolve and/or reduce the risk, working closely with R&D and suppliers
- Validate operational / strategic horizon material/ component requirement at commodity level and provide visibility to strategic suppliers. Work with Operations and Procurement to secure supplier capacity
- Negotiate with vendors to ensure required delivery dates are met, resolve escalated issues within execution horizon, eg. expedite/ de-expedite not agreed by suppliers
- Provide visibility into material constraints, changes to the supplier delivery dates and any bottlenecks (operational) to other Planners
- Conduct regular demand reviews with suppliers to help identify any potential supply issues in the future
- Support identification of opportunities to increase agility with suppliers
- Lead material/component inventory and execution. Collaborate with global Controlling to optimize material inventory and support achievement of working capital target.

**What you bring**:

- A first experience in Supply Chain, preferably with experience in materials/supply planning, sourcing / purchasing and supplier management
- Knowledge of supply management / collaboration, inventory management and procurement
- Advanced knowledge of, and experience with sourcing and supplier management activities for raw material and components in mechanics / electronic
- Knowledge of, and experience with supply planning and supplier collaboration tools
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal - ability to clearly demonstrate and explain business performance and underlying business drivers to a range of audiences
- An ability to execute tasks and deliver presentations in a high-pressure environment
- Excellent people skills, capability to build solid working relationships with the Group, the Regions and across the retail markets
- Drive, determination and high standards. Resilience, high energy and a ‘can-do’ attitude
- Strategic mind-set, results orientated, accountable, takes responsibility and leads by example, raising standards.

**Who we are***:
At WS Audiology, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.
- WS Audiology is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self._