Inventory Lead

jj; Markham; On-site; CAD 124,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Jons MedTech is seeking an Inventory Lead in Markham, ON to optimize total inventory and improve product availability. You will collaborate with Supply Chain Planning, Commercial, and Finance teams to drive efficiency and financial performance.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and at least four years of supply chain experience, with strong analytics, communication, and problem-solving skills. Travel up to 10% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Supply Chain, Business Management or Engineering.
• Minimum four years of relevant professional work experience.
• Strong data analytics and financial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Improve working capital efficiency by optimizing inventory across the Canadian network using sales data.
• Retrieve inventory from consignment locations when obsolete or not needed.
• Establish expiry risk processes and act to recover inventory before expiry.
• Coordinate field inventory deployments and retrievals with Supply Planning and Deliver teams.
• Maintain end-to-end alignment with commercial and finance functions.
• Identify and implement continuous process improvements within inventory functions.
• Ensure SOx controls for inventory in consignment are properly executed.

Skills

Supply chain planning

Data analytics

Financial acumen

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Inventory Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Markham, Ontario, Canada

Job Description:

Johnson & Jons MedTech is recruiting for an Inventory Lead. This position is located in Markham, ON Canada.

Johnson & Jons MedTech has been working to make surgery better for more than a century. With substantial breadth and depth in surgical technologies and interventional solutions, we aspire to improve and enhance medical care for people worldwide. Together, we are working to shape the future of health through differentiated products and services.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

At Johnson & Jons, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/

As an Inventory Lead, you will play a key role in the optimization of our total inventory, including field inventory, improving product availability to customers and positively impacting our financials. You will work in collaboration with our Supply Chain Planning and our Commercial and Finance teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working Capital efficiency: using sales data, identify and recommend actions to optimize inventory across the Canadian network. Provide recommendations to place inventory where it could increase turns and retrieve inventory when and where it is no longer needed.


• Life Cycle Management: based on Marketing portfolio timelines, retrieve inventory from consignment locations as soon as product lines become obsolete, customer account is closed, or new technology is deployed.


• Expiry Management: establish a process to identify expiry risk and take action to retrieve inventory before it expires.


• Complete deployments and retrievals of field inventory in coordination with the Supply Planning and Deliver teams in accordance with overall consigned inventory strategy


• Ensure positive relationship and end-to-end alignment with key functions: commercial organizations, local and regional supply chain organizations


• Find opportunities for continuous improvement to be implemented in functional processes.


• Responsible for the execution of the SOx controls for inventory in consignment.

Qualifications:

Education:

A minimum of a Bachelor Degree and/or equivalent University degree required; focused degree in Supply Chain, Business Management or Engineering preferred.

Required:

• Minimum four (4) years of relevant professional work experience.

• Experience in supply chain


• Strong background in data and analytics


• Strong Financial Competence and strong understanding of impact of Supply Chain in the overall profitability of the organization.


• Strong communication and presentation skills


• Self-motivated with the ability to collaborate and engage with multiple partners and at different levels of the organization.


• Highly developed organizational skills – able to handle multiple high priority tasks/projects concurrently.


• Self-starter and problem-solving mentality

Preferred:

• Cross-functional experience in Supply Chain in a Medical Devices or MedTech organization.


• Experience with consignment inventory, preferrably in hospitals or clinics.

Other:

• May require up to 10% domestic and/or international travel to other sites and locations

Johnson & Jons is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson and Jons is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center ([e-mail]) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Preferred Skills:

• Coaching, Communication, Data Savvy, Demand Planning, Distribution Resource Planning (DRP), Industry Analysis, Inventory Management, Inventory Optimization, Inventory Turnover, Manufacturing Flow Management, Organizing, Problem Solving, Resource Forecasting, Supply Planning, Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Warehouse Management

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$87,000.00 - $140,300.00