Senior Principal Supply Chain Consultant CEMA

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

This exciting new role has been created to support, analyze, and optimize supply chain processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs to our clients, of which the primary one in the CEMA region is the Saudi Ministry of Health. It will be a long-term consulting engagement, and you will be required to provide strategic guidance and deliver transformational supply chain projects, bringing your deep understanding of healthcare supply chain management principles to Regulators, Device and Pharma suppliers and Healthcare Providers.

This is a hybrid role supporting Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East region's business and customers. The role will report directly to the IHS (Integrated Health Solution) EMEA Supply Chain Director. Travel is anticipated to be 75%.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Strategic Planning and Execution: Develop and implement supply chain strategies that align with our client's overall business goals. For example, this will include working on client's procurement improvement initiatives, demand planning and stock management strategies.
• Team Leadership and Development: Lead and mentor a team of IHS people working with you on your assignments. This involves shaping and reviewing deliverables, providing training, and fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Inventory Management: Review with our client the methods and KPIs used to manage and optimise inventory and stock availability. This includes reviewing the quality of KPIs to allow our client to have control over supply risks and performance of its network partners (such as GPOs and 3PLs).
• Process Optimization: Evaluate and improve our client's supply chain processes to improve service levels and controls in their role as healthcare provider (for example, Ministry of Health as Regulator to providers in Saudi Arabia). Implement best practices and leverage technology to streamline operations.
• Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Track key performance indicators of the IHS programme in conjunction with IHS PMO to measure the effectiveness of the programme. Prepare and present regular reports to senior management.
• Grow the IHS business: Support IHS Business Development with new business opportunities for IHS to further grow in your region.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• 12+ years experience in a healthcare supply chain environment, or similar
• Strong Consulting (at big 4 or boutique consultancy) and project management experience
• Strong data management, analytical skills, presentation and communication skills
• Supply chain / logistics / material management background essential
• Hospital or medical device background is preferred
• Good academic record, with MBA or Master's degree in science, operations or supply chain management from Tier-1 university is preferred
• Fluent in English and Arabic (written and spoken) is essential

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.

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