Supply Planner

What You Can Expect

Paragon 28, a Zimmer Biomet company focused on orthopedic medical devices for injuries to the foot and ankle, is hiring a Supply Planner. The Supply Planner is responsible for the supply planning, procurement, and management of orders of medical devices and services from approved suppliers in alignment with forecasted net requirements. This role ensures cost, inventory, delivery, and service targets are met or exceeded through day-to-day supply chain management techniques in conjunction with identified improvement projects. This role interfaces with the Quality, Engineering, Marketing and Finance departments to align on and achieve organizational objectives. This position is onsite at our facilities in Englewood, Colorado, with the occasional opportunity to work remote.

How You'll Create Impact

• Assess supplier capability, capacity, and cost to allocate annual spend to qualified suppliers optimizing for service, quality, and cost.
• Manage basic and advanced planning parameters to ensure optimal net requirements planning.
• Review net requirements against supply and demand; manage open order exceptions; negotiate price, delivery, and terms with external contract-manufacturing and other supply partners; place and manage purchase orders.
• Regularly review KPIs; develop and execute strategies to address unfavorable results.
• Identify and close business process gaps; collaborate with stakeholders to drive business process improvement for planning, procurement, and inventory.
• Lead regular supplier production reviews to ensure needed capacity and on-time delivery.
• Lead quarterly business reviews.
• Monitor inventory levels to mitigate stockouts while maintaining cost effective operational expenses.
• Support new supplier qualification activities.
• Evaluate bids; negotiate to obtain the best quality, prices, and terms.
• Act as a liaison between suppliers and internal departments such as Engineering, Quality, and Finance.
• Visit existing and potential supplier facilities to evaluate manufacturing processes, capabilities, recent investments, potential for growth, performance trends, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

Your Background

• Bachelors degree preferred, may accept prior supply chain experience in lieu of degree
• Minimum 3 years of experience in related field such as supply planning, purchasing, or supply chain required, preferably in medical device
• APICS CSCP/CPIM certification preferred.
• Proficient with MS Office, including advance level Excel skills.
• Strategic Sourcing, opportunity analysis, and strong negotiation skills.
• High volume purchasing/planning experience required.
• Highly effective communication.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving.
• Experience working with detailed product line forecasts; familiarity with Sales & Operations business management process.
• Demonstrated success in driving process improvement.
• Strong decision-making, problem-solving skills, and time management skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, prioritize appropriately and handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• SAP ECC or S4 experience preferred.
• Previous medical device experience preferred.

Travel Expectations

Less than 25% of overnight travel

Compensation Data

Salary: $56,000 - $90,000 depending on skills and experience