As a member of our Supply Chain team, you will make a daily impact on the lives of others. Apply today and you will get a chance to work with high-functioning, driven people who all have the same mission of making healthcare better. Plus, we have an award-winning culture and were recently named one of the World's Best Workplace by Fortune!
The Field Inventory Manager for Europe will be responsible for our overall process of counting our €250M+ consignment across 12,000 locations in Europe. This role will manage a third-party contract where we have outsourced our activities for counting. The role will lead a central team that will oversee the European process, and drive process improvements and standardization within this area across Europe. The role will also take a strategic responsibility for the digital platforms, to manage field inventory.
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Opportunities & benefits that the role offers
- This person will lead a team of inventory professionals and get great exposure to Stryker’s commercial divisions.
- Opportunity to work closely with the full spectrum of supply chain professions in Stryker, as well as other functions.
- Help line up the field inventory for the entire European region to deliver great service to our external and internal customers.
- Work in Europe’s 7th best “Great Place to Work”.
- Attractive flexibility in working arrangements.
Is this you?
You have Experience You have at least 8 years of professional work experience in inventory and/or supply chain management, and you have at least 2 years people management experience. Ideally you will have at least 2-3 years medical device experience.
You have a Bachelor’s Degree Business Administration or Supply Chain Management preferred.
You Know what you are Doing You will have in depth experience with multiple operating systems, to include Enterprise Resource Program tools. You posses the ability to deliver the continued digitalisation of our field inventory tools.
You speak Fluent English A key part of this role will be to work with international stakeholders across the world. Knowing one or more additional languages is a plus.
You love a Challenge A self-starter who enjoys problem solving and creating innovative solutions. You can organise and direct diverse activities in a changing environment, often under time pressure.
You are a Goal-oriented Orchestrator You can effectively coordinate and prioritize skilled employees toward the right activities that contribute to success.
You Build Relationships You are a team player that works closely with your team members to achieve shared goals. Next to that, you build and maintains successful relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and customers. You have prior experience influencing across multiple teams/groups across an organization.
You do the Right Thing You have a high level of integrity, responsibility, discipline, and attention to detail. You understand the importance of keeping tabs of what is always going on in your goals/projects.
You are a Strategic Thinker You enjoy interpreting data or trends from multiple sources and formats and create a comprehensive scientific review, including in depth statistical analyses, risk management cross-check and descriptive analyses, following complex and rigorous methodologies.
What will you do at Stryker?
- Manage the central team for Remote Cycle Counting (RCC) Europe, this will include 6-7 team members that will drive the strategic development for our digital platforms.
- Dotted line reporting lines from our local RCC teams across EU (5-6 FTEs).
- Responsible for making sure we reach our targets set by finance in terms of % coverage of counted inventory values.
- Working closely with the local asset managers and counting teams across EU to achieve the targets set.
- Manage the third-party contract (Yearly Spend + €1 M), being the main contact person and making sure the contracts is followed and follow up on KPIs set in contract. Being accountable to make sure the contract is up to date and in due time make new market assessments and making sure we have a collaborative and up to date contract.
- Work together with business leaders to make sure they are up to date with the progress and drive escalations within the business if required.
- Being responsible for making sure our processes in Europe are aligned and drive process improvements in this area to manage our RCC processes in a more efficient and professional way.
- Drive initiatives to create standardized and new KPIs for RCC Europe.
- Ensures all ISO, Compliance, SOX, FCPA and regulatory requirements and policies are implemented and applied.
The Company
Stryker is one of the world’s top medical technology companies and together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. The Company offers a diverse array of innovative medical technologies, including orthopedics, medical and surgical, and neurotechnology & spine products to help people live more active and more satisfying lives. Stryker products and services are available in over 100 countries around the world. For more information, please visit our website at www.stryker.com.
About Stryker
Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, is driven to make healthcare better.
The company offers innovative products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopedics, and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 100 million patients annually.
More information is available at stryker.com
