Logistics Business Partner, End-To-End Ortho Supply Chain

Straumann Group; Madrid; Remote; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

MiniMed is actively seeking a Supply Chain Analyst to optimize inventory deployment and ensure product availability across our global distribution network. The role balances customer service, inventory investment, and network efficiency while proactively mitigating supply risks.

You will own end‑to‑end distribution planning for a product portfolio, identify supply risks, drive replenishment, and coordinate with cross‑functional teams to support strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, logistics, business, or related field.
• Experience in supply chain planning in medical devices, pharmaceuticals, or healthcare.
• Advanced knowledge of supply chain management, project management, and process improvement methodologies.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple projects, and influence cross‑functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills for interacting with senior stakeholders, vendors, and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end distribution planning activities for an assigned product portfolio, ensuring high product availability while optimizing inventory investment and network performance.
• Proactively identify supply risks, inventory imbalances, and potential service disruptions, developing and executing mitigation and recovery plans before customer impact occurs.
• Drive replenishment execution across the global distribution network by monitoring inventory health, resolving planning exceptions, and ensuring timely inventory deployment.
• Lead distribution readiness for new product introductions, geo expansions, phase‑ins/phase‑outs, and strategic business initiatives by coordinating inventory strategies and ensuring flawless execution.
• Analyze inventory performance, backorders, excess and aging inventory, and key supply chain metrics to identify improvement opportunities and recommend data‑driven solutions.
• Partner with Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Commercial, Regional Planning, and other cross‑functional stakeholders to align priorities, resolve complex supply challenges, and achieve business objectives.
• Champion continuous improvement by enhancing planning processes, leveraging automation, improving system capabilities, and driving operational excellence across the distribution network.
• Communicate risks, business impacts, recommendations, and executive‑ready updates to stakeholders while influencing decisions through data‑driven analysis and sound business judgment.
• Foster a collaborative, high‑performing team environment by sharing knowledge, supporting organizational initiatives, and modeling a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain/logistics/business

Job description

Remote
Madrid, Spain
Full time
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About the Role

Supply Chain Analyst is a seasoned individual contributor responsible for ensuring the right inventory is in the right place at the right time while balancing customer service, inventory optimization, and network efficiency across a global distribution network. This role proactively identifies and mitigates supply risks, optimizes inventory deployment, drives replenishment execution, and delivers operational readiness for new product introductions and strategic business initiatives. Success in this role requires strong analytical thinking, cross‑functional collaboration, and the ability to influence decisions that improve business performance and patient outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end distribution planning activities for an assigned product portfolio, ensuring high product availability while optimizing inventory investment and network performance.
• Proactively identify supply risks, inventory imbalances, and potential service disruptions, developing and executing mitigation and recovery plans before customer impact occurs.
• Drive replenishment execution across the global distribution network by monitoring inventory health, resolving planning exceptions, and ensuring timely inventory deployment.
• Lead distribution readiness for new product introductions, geo expansions, phase‑ins/phase‑outs, and strategic business initiatives by coordinating inventory strategies and ensuring flawless execution.
• Analyze inventory performance, backorders, excess and aging inventory, and key supply chain metrics to identify improvement opportunities and recommend data‑driven solutions.
• Partner with Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Commercial, Regional Planning, and other cross‑functional stakeholders to align priorities, resolve complex supply challenges, and achieve business objectives.
• Champion continuous improvement by enhancing planning processes, leveraging automation, improving system capabilities, and driving operational excellence across the distribution network.
• Communicate risks, business impacts, recommendations, and executive‑ready updates to stakeholders while influencing decisions through data‑driven analysis and sound business judgment.
• Foster a collaborative, high‑performing team environment by sharing knowledge, supporting organizational initiatives, and modeling a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, logistics, business, or related field
• Experience in supply chain planning in similar industries (medical devices, pharmaceuticals, healthcare).
• Advanced knowledge of supply chain management, project management, and process improvement methodologies.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple projects, and influence cross‑functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills for interacting with senior stakeholders, vendors, and internal teams.

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Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

MiniMed offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package. At MiniMed, we put people first. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values: We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every stage of your career and life.
MiniMed is a full‑stack insulin delivery company dedicated to supporting people living with diabetes through every step of their journey - when and how they need it. With a heritage rooted in technology, empathy, and a relentless pursuit of innovation, we’re focused on one thing: making every day a better day for people with diabetes.

About MiniMed

We want to make every day a better day for people living with diabetes. Our team of creative innovators around the globe share a passion for finding the simplest solutions to the problems that people with diabetes face on a daily basis. For more than 40 years, we’ve been redefining what’s possible, from intelligent dosing systems designed for real life to predictive insights that stay a step ahead, and we’re dedicated to continuing to support our customers through every step of their journey - meeting them where and how they need it.

MiniMed is a full-stack insulin delivery company dedicated to supporting people living with diabetes through every step of their journey - when and how they need it. With a heritage rooted in technology, empathy, and a relentless pursuit of innovation, we’re focused on one thing: making every day a better day for people with diabetes.

From our intelligent dosing systems that stay one step ahead to our always-on support when it’s needed most, we’re committed to building a connected system of care that works together and fits into everyday life, so people with diabetes can move through the day with fewer interruptions. Fewer second guesses. And more freedom to live in the moment.

We’re here to make better days possible for people with diabetes. Joyful, messy, fully lived days. Days where things feel lighter, easier.

For more than four decades, we’ve been driven by this mission, delivering groundbreaking advancements in technology to help people live more fully, freely, and with greater confidence. At MiniMed, diabetes care is personal for us. Many of our employees have a connection to diabetes, whether they’re living with it themselves or through family members and friends, and we all show up each day to help make the lives of our coworkers and loved ones easier.

Our people-first priority.

At MiniMed, we put our customers at the forefront of all we do, and that focus extends to our team as well. We’re dedicated to creating a culture of belonging and providing our people with all the career‑building resources you might need.

Our life‑transforming technologies.

No matter what your role at our company, you’re making a difference in the lives of people with diabetes. Our innovative inventions improve their day-to‑day by helping lift the mental load and allowing diabetes to fade into the background, empowering them to live life on their own terms.

Our focus on the future.

We’re chasing the dream of a world where people with diabetes can be free of that never‑ending battle of balancing blood sugar. A world where better days are the norm, not the exception. Fresh faces and new viewpoints will help create our cutting‑edge solutions and define the next generation of breakthroughs in care, so that a better day can start today.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of MiniMed to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, MiniMed will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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Clinical Supply Chain Manager

Step into a role where strategy meets impact. As a Clinical Supply Chain Manager, you will shape and drive the end‑to‑end supply strategy for new clinical trials. Using your ability to translate complex study protocols into smart kit designs and robust supply plans, you’ll ensure that every element is aligned for seamless study execution. In this key position, you’ll collaborate closely with internal teams and external partners, leading them through the planning and delivery of a supply chain that meets highest quality standards and study timelines. If you enjoy combining analytical thinking with operational leadership, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to advancing clinical research.

Key Responsibilities

• Interpret clinical trial protocols to create and execute an effective clinical trial supply chain solution.
• Create master English label text in accordance with relevant regulatory framework (e.g. Annex 13).
• Create and maintain demand forecasts and packaging plans so that packed clinical supplies are readily available in accordance with the project requirements.
• Initiate packaging campaigns with the assigned vendor and provide oversight to ensure on‑time delivery.
• Setup, monitor, and where necessary, update study assigned Interactive Response Technology (IRT) systems to ensure study inventory is effectively managed.
• Create an appropriate distribution plan and have oversight of the assigned vendor(s) executing it.
• Ability to work independently and proactively to ensure that the supply of all trial materials is delivered to the right place at the right time.
• Provide ongoing budget tracking activities so that projects are run efficiently and in accordance with client approved quotations.
• Maintains 100% compliance on all assigned training and applies learnings to everyday practice.
• Remain up to date in all GxP and regulatory requirements applicable to the role.
• Lead client and vendor related meetings where necessary to discuss clinical supply chain topics or status updates.
• Create a Temperature Excursion management plan.
• Manage the review and assessment process of Temperature Excursions reported to the IQVIA Clinical Trial Supplies team.
• Conducts thorough and regular risk management assessments to ensure all risks are systematically reviewed and appropriate mitigations are executed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a science or business function (Preferred not essential)
• 3‑5 Years industry experience in Clinical Trials (Essential).
• 3‑5 Years experience in Clinical Supply Chain Management (Essential).
• Ability to demonstrate good project management skills.
• Ability to create effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to demonstrate effective communication and direction.
• Ability to problem solve.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc).
• Proficient in the English language.

Not Eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship

Please note this role is not eligible for UK visa sponsorship.

Employment Statement

EEO Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled