Spare Parts Planner

The Opportunity

QuidelOrtho unites the strengths of Quidel Corporation and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, creating a world-leading in vitro diagnostics company with award-winning expertise in immunoassay and molecular testing, clinical chemistry and transfusion medicine. We are more than 6,000 strong and do business in over 130 countries, providing answers with fast, accurate and consistent testing where and when they are needed most – home to hospital, lab to clinic.

Our culture puts our team members first and prioritizes actions that support happiness, inspiration and engagement. We strive to build meaningful connections with each other as we believe that employee happiness and business success are linked. Join us in our mission to transform the power of diagnostics into a healthier future for all.

The Opportunity

As we continue to grow, we are seeking a Spare Parts Planner who will be responsible for planning and maintaining parts in order to insure high levels of customer availability while optimizing inventory levels and scrap. The parts planner will interact with service engineering, external vendors, global planners, product assignment, and logistics teams to procure supply and develop inventory stocking strategies to maximize availability and minimize inventory investment.

This position can be remote.

The Responsibilities

• Plan spare parts requirements using SAP and APO.
• Monitoring levels and fulfilment of customer backorders.
• Develop and execute plans to achieve scrap targets.
• Interface with internal & external business partners (customer service, distribution, commercial, procurement, demand planning, product management, planning management) to develop and execute strategies around market and / or customer supply.
• Interface with external vendors to develop and coordinate supply, place purchase orders and track incoming supply.
• Maintain timely reporting and accountable to inventory, backorder and line item fill rate metric targets.
• Planning system analytics to gather key data in order to identify and drive plans for improvement of supply chain metrics (i.e. inventory, scrap, availability, etc.)
• Employ the use of quality and lean thinking tools to identify and drive improvement opportunities.
• The Global Planning Analyst will manage global demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, equipment purchasing, and S&OP related activities for current products as well as new product launches and product discontinuances.
• S&OP and master data related activities for current products as well as new product launches and product discontinuances.

The Individual