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Associate Demand Planner
Are you looking for a great work culture, good teammates and caring leadership? Ortho Development is the place to be. We offer great benefits, working Monday through Friday. We are an exciting place to work that provides autonomy for you to excel at your tasks. Ortho Development Corporation helps people do what they love by restoring mobility. We are an orthopedic design, manufacturing and distribution company located in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper, Utah. Our primary product focus is total hip and knee replacement. We are passionate about designing and manufacturing innovative, clinically proven products using the latest material science and technology.
As an Associate Demand Planner, you will play a crucial role in orthopedic medical devices. This position will involve analyzing, maintaining, driving demand and inventory levels.
Location: Onsite-Draper, UT
Schedule: Monday- Friday, 8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Primary Responsibilities:
- Monitor global demand, inventory levels, and improvement plans to ensure budgets are kept in line and goals are achieved.
- Preform allocation processes on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
- Support management with risk assessments and mitigation activities.
- Propose and implement solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy.
- Collaborate and work closely with Manufacturing/Supply Planning team to communicate current and future projects and to increase efficiencies.
- Address and share demand-related issues in a timely and effective manner.
- Work with Distribution Planning team to create and maintain a procedure to update and maintain monthly US inventory forecast.
- Respond to inventory requests by assessing demand and inventory quantities.
- Conduct monthly U.S. forecast maintenance.
- Assist with the collection, organization, and upload of monthly global demand.
- Support Distribution Planning by driving continuous improvements in the setup and use of Microsoft D365 and any other ERP by leading key initiatives to update, enhance, or reprogram the system.
- Assist Distribution Planning with overflow activities during peak time frames.
- Help establish reorder points and quantities.
- Pursue, identify, and provide recommendations for continuous process improvement.
Experience specific to this position:
- Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Business, Finance, or other relative discipline.
- APICS
- Lean/Six Sigma Certifications preferred
- 3-5 years’ experience in supply chain and/or distribution role necessary as foundation for this position.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel
- Supply Chain, Logistics, Distribution planning experience.
- Experience in or knowledge of Orthopedic industry.
- Ability to extract and analyze large amounts of data through multiple means (Excel, ERP, etc.)
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discounts
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid Holidays
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
- Wellness incentives
- UTA Transit Pass
