WHO ARE WE?
Endotronix is a medical device company that aims to transform the treatment of heart failure, a chronic, progressive condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to support the body. Our Cordella Heart Failure System (CHFS) includes proactive management tools for best practice care and detection of worsening heart failure. These easy-to-use tools improve patient quality of life and help to reduce hospital admissions thereby reducing health care costs. With our recent PMA approval from the FDA, we are preparing to grow our team – it’s a great time to join Endotronix!
WHAT YOU’LL DO
The Material Planner is responsible for developing and managing production schedules to meet demand, optimize resource utilization, and maintain inventory levels in line with company objectives. This role requires a proactive approach to monitor inventory, coordinate with various departments, and ensure efficient production flow within a medical device manufacturing environment.
- Act as the ERP Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing guidance and support for ERP system usage and optimization.
- Develop and manage production schedules based on demand forecasts, available resources, and production capacity to meet forecast goals per S&OP.
- Coordinate logistics between Quality Assurance, Manufacturing, Operations, and R&D to ensure work orders remain on schedule, and assist in ensuring proper resourcing
- Plan, prepare, and issue work orders, ensuring alignment with inventory requirements and lead times.
- Assign machines, equipment, and labor to production tasks, optimizing resource utilization to meet production goals.
- Monitor inventory levels of raw materials, components, and finished goods to ensure the supply of critical materials meets the company’s desired inventory levels for business continuity plans.
- Identify and act on exceptions to demand or production schedules, addressing potential bottlenecks or capacity constraints as needed.
- Create and review DCR documentation and work instructions to support ongoing process changes.
- Review production documents and assist in addressing non-conforming materials.
- Initiate and maintain a close working relationship and partnership with Quality to ensure prompt attention and action to issues related to materials while maintaining excellent product quality.
- Generate regular reports on production performance, including key metrics such as scrap tracking, on-time delivery, and production efficiency.
- Analyze MRP requirements to ensure accuracy and integrity; determine future needs; decide minimum/maximum and economic order quantity; maintain MRP data.
- Make recommendations for purchases and generate purchase orders for materials as required.
- Ensure that all subcontracted materials and services are delivered on time and meet quality standards.
- Maintain strong relationships with key suppliers to ensure they can meet current and future demands.
- Handle any issues related to inventory returns, replacements, and credit arrangements promptly.
- Perform additional duties and assignments as directed by management.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE
- Prior experience with inventory/supply chain management preferred
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong problem solving, team building and decision-making skills.
- Experience with a 1st or 2nd tier ERP system preferred
- Proficiency with data analytics (databases, MS Excel, and presentations) and MS Office.
- Knowledge and experience in a regulated production environment, preferably in Medical Device
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in the supply chain, business, engineering, or equivalent work experience is preferred
- Professional certifications through APICS, ISM, and/or CSCMP are preferred.
- Experience with Lean manufacturing principles.
WHO YOU ARE
- Relentlessly focused on data and hypothesis driven decision making to create the best experiences for ETX patients and customers
- Someone with a bias for action and quick iteration as opposed to perfection
- A quick learner, who is able to work independently, multitask, and drive your own projects
- An effective communicator and collaborator who can synthesize insights from multiple stakeholders across business functions to deliver purpose-built insights models and tools that provide easily interpretable and actionable results
- A team player who can inspire teams to deliver together, embodying the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- Passionate about digital healthcare and leveraging Data to deliver innovative solutions at scale.
WHAT WE’RE LIKE
- Willing to have the “direct and honest conversation”. Not afraid to confront the facts (or be confronted) and develop a plan to move forward.
- Competitive spirit and drive to win. Strong sense of initiative, internal motivation, and an unrelenting focus on results.
- Openness to feedback and coaching with a strong orientation towards continual learning and improvement. Ability to solicit, accept and provide direct feedback without defensiveness.
- Capacity to function in a highly complex company with ease and fluidity, while driving and influencing results.
- Entrepreneurial, flexible, yet results focused.
- High degree of intellectual curiosity, honesty, and capability.
- Low ego and humble in spirit in spite of your track record of outstanding performance.
LIFE AT ENDOTRONIX
Endotronix. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, citizenship status, age, veteran status or disability.
Furthermore, we do not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment of our employees by co-workers, supervisors, customers, or vendors. This commitment extends to our policies on recruiting, advertising, hiring, placement, promotion, training, transfer, wages, benefits, termination and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment.
This policy applies not only to recruitment and hiring practices, but also includes affirmative action in the area of placement, promotion, transfer, rate of pay and termination.
Executive, management and supervisory levels have the responsibility to further the implementation of this policy and ensure conformance by subordinates
