Transportation Planner

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

The 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.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• 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.

• Partner with Transport planning team in other regions to ensure On Time Performance of cross regions shipments.

• Lead projects as assigned.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelors degree required

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a Logistic – Transportation role.

• Knowledge of transportation operations and freight tendering / tracking processes.

• Knowledge of various modes within the Transportation Industry

• Experience with Transportation Planning and Optimisation is benefitial

• Experience with TMS and Transport Operational Planning experience is benefitial

• Experience working in a US multinational (matrix organization) is a plus.

• Experience working within the healthcare environment is beneficial.

• Supply Chain Management expertise

• SAP Knowledge

• DG knowledge Expertise

• 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/regions, building relationships, influence andcollaborate 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.

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.

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 95,000+ 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.

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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 95,000+ 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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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