Lead Specialist, Supply & Inventory Planning

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Job details

Company overview

We offer a wide range of medical equipment including orthopedic, neurosurgical, emergency medical, and operating room products. These include, among others, artificial joints, implants for bone fracture treatment, endoscopes, surgical instruments, and automated cardiac massage systems. Focusing on customer needs, the company strives to improve the quality of medical care through innovative products. We also continue to maintain a "rewarding work environment" by focusing on employee growth and improving the work environment.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities: 

• Manage inventory levels at distribution centers to align with operational KPIs, financial targets and stocking strategy to support business goals.
• Establish recommended cycle/safety stock and customer service levels for product supply with Demand Planners to ensure maximum financial return on inventory.
• Prevent potential inventory excess and shortage as well as back orders with cross functional partners to contribute to operating income.
• Build PSI (Purchase, Sales, and Inventory) plan to provide insights and recommendations.
• Place and manage purchase orders and master data to allow high quality and reliable data available for planning and business/operational decision making.
• Monitor inventory level vs business targets and follow up corrective and mitigation actions with Demand Planners to ensure target achievements as well as service level.
• Ensure supply process is in line with global standards and work with global/local suppliers for improvement.
• Challenge the existing processes and strive for continuous improvements.
• Perform ad-hoc tasks according to business needs and projects assigned by Supply & Inventory Planning manager

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• 3+ years related experience at multi-national company
• Proven ability to meet deadlines and prioritize workload
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
• Strong business acumen with outstanding analytical skills
• Good attention to details
• Solid knowledge of inventory management
• Advanced skills with Excel and Power Point.
• Proficiency in ERP systems (e.g. Oracle, SAP) and planning tools
• Business level English and Japanese (spoken, written and reading)

Preferred qualifications:

• Database knowledge (SQL, Tableau, etc ) is preferred
• Working experience with Power BI is a plus

Salary

5 - 8 million yen

Location

Tokyo