Senior Analyst – Global Inventory Operations

at  Stryker

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As a Senior Analyst of Inventory Operations at our global, $20+ billion company, this role will be responsible for executing inventory control processes. The key responsibilities for this role include maintaining inventory reconciliation between Stryker ERP and relevant 3PL WMS system(s), troubleshooting and resolving variances, and supporting other inventory control processes like monthly DARs. This individual will collaborate with cross-functional teams to help ensure accurate stock levels are represented across systems. Your leadership will be crucial in maintaining optimal inventory turnover, reducing costs, and supporting the company’s growth objectives.

KNOWLEDGE AND CAPABILITIES:

• Critical thinking – ability to understand complex cross-functional processes and actively contribute participate in continuous improvement initiatives.
• Leverage successful working relationships with internal and external personnel in various departments to advance business goals.
• High in emotional intelligence and demonstrates calmness in high pressure situations.
• Drives results in support of the business, even in the face of demanding timelines. Steps up to take on additional responsibility where appropriate.
• Can influence without direct authority.
• Can communicate changes, updates, and decisions to senior level audiences.
• Keeps the customer at the heart of what we do.
• Exercises good judgment despite ambiguity, and practices a structured methodology to efficiently solve problems.
• Growth mindset – ability to learn quickly and adapt in a dynamic environment.

PREFERRED SKILLS / ENGINEERING TOOLS:

• Demonstrated experience in building and deploying supply chain capabilities.
• Excellence communication skills.
• Microsoft skills, Excel, PPT and Microsoft project

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree- required OR in lieu of degree, high school diploma and 8+ years of experience- required
• 2+ years of experience- required
  Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually

• Work collaboratively with distribution operations, IT, and finance to establish best practices for inventory variance measurement, monitoring, and correction across our global distribution footprint.
• Work with IT to establish process for monitoring daily transactions between the WMS and ERP (e.g. Oracle) to identify and track transaction fallout rates.
• Support lead / lag metrics for measuring inventory accuracy on a consistent basis at operational and executive levels.
• Support roadmap for deploying best practices across global distribution network and including training and defining a method for measuring compliance these standard processes.
• Support inventory cycle count process ensuring that inventory is physically counted per internal and contractual requirements and that adjustments are systematically reflected end to end
• Responsible for identifying expired, damaged, and obsolete inventory levels and driving the appropriate DAR process with finance and operations partners
• Responsible for the process of ensure inventory approved on a DAR request physically and transactionally scrapped with proper archival of destruction documentation
• Key metrics for this role include inventory accuracy, total inventory adjustments, trends for damaged, expired, obsolete, and reserved inventory levels.