Supply Planner

Company: Nevro
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: May 7, 2022

Job Description:

About Nevro
Nevro (NYSE: NVRO) is a global medical device company headquartered in Redwood City, California. We are focused on delivering comprehensive, life-changing solutions that continue to set the standard for enduring patient outcomes in chronic pain treatment. The company started with a simple mission to help more patients suffering from debilitating pain and developed its proprietary 10 kHz Therapy, an evidence-based, non-pharmacologic innovation that has impacted the lives of more than 80,000 patients globally.
Nevro's comprehensive HFX--- spinal cord stimulation (SCS) platform includes a Senza SCS system and support services for the treatment of chronic trunk and limb pain and painful diabetic neuropathy. Senza -, Senza II -, and Senza Omnia--- are the only SCS systems that deliver Nevro's proprietary 10 kHz Therapy. Nevro's unique support services provide every patient with an HFX Coach--- throughout their pain relief journey and every physician with HFX Cloud--- insights for enhanced patient and practice management.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
The person in this position is wholly responsible for planning finished goods and components to ensure proper inventory and service levels are maintained per company guidelines. They will determine finished goods and component requirements from the MRP system as well as via input from project teams and management for new products and changes to existing products, and they will issue appropriate purchase orders and forecasts to the supply base.
Use the ERP system's MRP functionality to plan, purchase and maintain proper levels of all Nevro-owned inventory per the Safety Stock policy and in support of Customer Service goals.
Responsible for ensuring continuous supply of our finished products to our field sales team and for direct customer orders.
Responsible for ensuring that our finished product packager has all necessary Nevro-supplied kit components available when needed for production of finished goods.
Maintain Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) metrics and planning data used for presentation to senior management. Analyze metrics to determine trends and drive to root causes, initiating action where possible to address negative trends.
Use independent judgement to establish and maintain MRP-relevant master data in the ERP system
Generate monthly supplier forecasts and disseminate to all relevant suppliers
Use the iPurchase software program to generate Purchase Requisitions driven by the MRP data, and issue all required Purchase Orders to suppliers after approval of related Purchase Requisitions
Follow-up on late supplier deliveries to ensure the MRP system has current data to use for planning
Expedite purchase orders as needed while balancing against the need to control expediting costs
Monitor supplier delivery to ensure high levels of on-time delivery performance from our suppliers, maintain and publish related metrics and initiate actions to drive improvements when needed
Prepare and maintain all required purchasing records for Production components
Coordinate implementation of Engineering Change Orders with suppliers
Work with suppliers and internal departments to improve systems to track and replenish inventory throughout offsite locations and within Order-to-Pay process
Assist in developing and implementing Supply Chain strategy
Create iPurchase requisitions for indirect spend as needed
Serve as a back-up in the Cycle Counting function
Other duties as assigned

Role Requirements
3-5 years of planning-related experience in a regulated industry, medical device preferred
Well-versed in the use of MRP functionality in ERP software, QAD preferred
Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel
APICS or CPSM certification desirable

Skills And Knowledge
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering or Operations Management or equivalent work experience
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Working knowledge of purchasing and inventory management methods & techniques
Understanding of business and financial impact of planning & purchasing decisions
Sound judgment and decision making, problem solving, flexibility, assertiveness, resilience, and strong quality orientation
Ability to influence, strong negotiation skills, excellent follow through and organization skills
Ability to work in a fast paced and changing environment to accomplish goals while multitasking
Ability to manage multiple tasks, with a customer-focused sense of urgency
This position resides at corporate headquarters with expected travel of no more than 10%

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