Warehouse and Inventory Lead

Medtronic plc; Alcalá de Henares; On-site; EUR 53,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain is seeking a Warehouse and Inventory Lead to supervise warehouse and inventory operations within the Distribution Center, ensuring efficient, accurate, and compliant flow of materials.

You will lead a team, monitor SAP WM, coordinate shipping/receiving, and drive continuous improvement to boost productivity and service levels. The role is onsite with cross-functional collaboration to meet business objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years in supply chain, logistics, or warehouse ops.
• Proven people management experience leading warehouse teams.
• Experience in the medical devices or healthcare sector is preferred.
• Experience with SAP WM/WMS systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily warehouse, inventory, shipping, receiving, and VAS operations.
• Provide operational support to ensure efficient, compliant product flow.
• Manage, coach, and develop warehouse team members and prioritize workload.
• Monitor inventory accuracy and material movement using SAP WM.
• Ensure compliance with logistics procedures, transport requirements, and quality standards.
• Coordinate receipt, storage, movement, and shipment of materials.
• Review and validate shipping documents and system transactions.
• Drive continuous improvement to enhance productivity and service levels.

Skills

People management

Inventory management

Logistics coordination

Warehouse operations

Healthcare sector experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain or related field

Tools

SAP WM

Job description

Onsite

Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Full time

R79424

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Our Distribution Center in Alcalá de Henares plays a critical role in the storage, inventory management, and distribution of products across the region. The team is responsible for ensuring inventory accuracy, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and high service levels through warehouse operations, shipping and receiving activities, and Value-Added Services (VAS).

This position is based in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain and is an onsite role. The Warehouse and Inventory Lead partners closely with Supply Chain, Logistics, Quality, and Customer Service teams to support operational performance and business objectives

The Warehouse and Inventory Lead is responsible for supervising warehouse and inventory operations within the Distribution Center, ensuring the efficient, accurate, and compliant flow of materials and products. This role provides people leadership while overseeing inventory control, shipping and receiving processes, logistics operations support, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead daily warehouse, inventory, shipping, receiving, and Value-Added Services (VAS) operations.
• Provide operational support for logistics activities to ensure efficient and compliant product flow across the distribution network.
• Manage, coach, and develop warehouse team members, including performance management and workload prioritization.
• Monitor inventory accuracy and material movement through SAP Warehouse Management (WM) systems.
• Ensure compliance with logistics procedures, transportation requirements, quality standards, and operational policies.
• Coordinate the receipt, storage, movement, and shipment of materials, products, and supplies.
• Review and validate shipping documentation, freight records, packing lists, bills of lading, and system transactions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, inventory control, and service levels.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years of experience in a similar role in Supply Chain, Logistics, Warehouse Operations, or Inventory Management.
• People management experience leading and developing teams in a warehouse, distribution center, inventory management, or logistics environment.
• Proven experience in the medical devices or healthcare sector.
• Experience with SAP Warehouse Management (WM/WMS) systems.
• Fluent in Spanish and English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in pharmaceutical or other regulated distribution environments.
• Experience using Power BI for operational reporting and performance analysis.
• Experience with Value-Added Services (VAS) operations.
• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives in warehouse or logistics operations.
• Knowledge of transportation management, inventory control, and warehouse performance metrics.

Medtronic is committed to safeguarding the principle of non-discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, as set out in Article 14 of the Constitution and Articles 17 and 18 of the Workers' Statute, as well as Organic Law 3/2007 of 22 March on effective equality between women and men and Law 4/2023 for the real and effective equality of transgender people and the protection of LGTBI rights. This commitment applies to all company personnel without exception. This is done with the understanding and conviction that equal treatment and opportunities in the workplace must be guaranteed, ultimately ensuring an inclusive working environment that advances the eradication of discrimination against LGTBI people and the absence of any direct or indirect discrimination on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and those derived from maternity, family obligations and marital status.

Physical Job Requirements

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Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Spain: 52,800.00 EUR - 79,200.00 EUR |

The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Operations Incentive Plan (OIP).

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first

Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies

No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world

Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care

Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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