Senior Field Inventory and Go

A Day in the Life The Field Inventory Manager will be based out of Gurgaon office of Medtronic, and will be part of India Customer Care and Order Operations organization. In the last 3 years, Medtronic has been successful in carrying out transformative projects in Supply Chain space in India, with a focus on driving efficiency, adoption of technology and inventory analytics. This role will be responsible for maintaining the momentum through data driven insights and collaboration, in the customer inventory management space. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Identify, plan, and execute improvement opportunities in day-to-day field inventory operations, through data/ collaborative understanding.
• Work closely with regional Field Inventory leads and FSL leads to understand pain points and derive better ways of working.
• Conceptualize and implement analytics frameworks for Inventory Optimization and follow up for actions on the ground.
• Collaborate with IT and Business Intelligence teams to define and develop insightful reports/ dashboards/ visualizations.
• Work with external IT vendor for in-house Order to Cash app enhancements and implementation.
• Support supply chain representation in strategic forums through data assimilation and visualization.
• Lead Channel Transformation initiatives with strong collaboration with Channel, Sales and Finance teams, along with inventory actions.
• Business partnering with sales teams by addressing their concerns through effective collaboration with Planning, Logistics, Customer Service and Finance.

Must Have- Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor s Degree in Quantitative field (Engineering, Statistics, Science, Accounting, Business), MBA from Tier-1 colleges/ CA preferred
• Min. 10 years of experience in Supply Chain Data Analysis and operations.
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Excel (including Power Query, Power Pivot, Visualizations)
• Prior experience in leading critical projects in supply chain domain with end-to-end lifecycle management
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Team player and a great collaborator
• Self-driven; excels in a minimum supervision environment by taking ownership
• Tech-oriented

Nice to Have:

• Experience in Power BI dashboard creation and maintenance
• Excel VBA scripting experience
• Knowledge of SQL, Python/ R
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification
• Experience in handling in-house tech product development and implementation

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONAL CAREER STREAM: Management and supervisory professionals with one or more employees who are focused on tactical, operational and some strategic activities within a specified area. Levels within the management career stream typically have six or more direct reports. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing performance, developing talent, engagement and inclusion, communicating business and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of direct reports. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and / or indirect reports. A key responsibility of roles in this career stream is managing people. which includes: accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals. DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS Autonomy: Supervises team members or subordinate supervisors, providing tactical and / or technical leadership.
May perform ongoing operational tasks. Receives assignments in task-oriented terms and delivers results according to established procedures. Organizational Impact: Plans and establishes goals and objectives for a team, typically within (1) department.
Decisions impact project or department schedules, customer satisfaction levels, or allocation of time or material resources. Typically does not have budget or P&L accountability, but may manage day-to-day elements of the budget (eg, overtime for staff). Innovation and Complexity: Makes improvements to processes, systems or products.
Problems and issues faced are difficult and may require understanding of broader set of issues, including multiple job areas or specialties. Communication and Influence: Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors, across various levels of the organization.
Shares and exchanges relevant information to reach solutions, and gaining cooperation of other parties. Leadership and Talent Management: May be a second level supervisor of employees in the Support career stream, such as production, distribution or technicians.
May be a first level supervisor of employees in the Associate or Intermediate level in the Specialist career stream. May be a first level supervisor of employees at level IV and V in the Support career stream. Leads, directs and reviews the work of team members in order to accomplish operational plans and results. Provides primary input to hiring, firing, promotion, performance and rewards decisions for direct reports. Required Knowledge and Experience: Understands basic management approaches such as work scheduling, prioritizing, coaching and process execution.
Requires advanced knowledge of job area obtained through advanced education combined with experience. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).