At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Do you get up every morning wondering what your dynamic day will bring, working with different cultures in a fast-paced environment? Do you enjoy providing the best customer experience, working in an international team with other specialists?Apply now! This and more are offered in our Export, Intercompany & Specialized Services department. We are currently looking for a full-time customer-focused, proactive and accurate Associate Intercompany Export Specialist, we ensure excellent quality, swift delivery and ultimately our patients' safety and health!
We are specifically looking for candidates that live within a maximum 80km radius of our Medtronic office in Heerlen, the Netherlands. After your fulltime training period at the office, we expect you to work at least 2 days per week in the office; the other days you will work out of your home office. As of 1 July 2022, our government has communicated that cross-border employees must be present in the office by 80% of the working hours.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
The job entails close working relationships with local downstream Distribution Centers, regulatory, logistics operations, transport teams, trade compliance and our supply chain planning department.
- You are the first point of contact for inquiries from Distribution Centers in Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe, India, APAC, China and Latin America related to their stock transfer orders from our Distribution Centers in Heerlen, Netherlands or Rolo, Italy.
- You enable smooth order and shipment processes and communications for these stock transfer orders and handle all incoming e-mails to (shared) mailboxes in an efficient, compliant and effective way.
- You create and monitor stock transfer orders, deliveries, shipments at different stages in the process and monitor our lead-times in ERP (i.e. SAP) systems.
- You are responsible for aging orders and providing daily/ weekly information about the open orders, deliveries and shipments to the distribution centers.
- You are responsible for service complaints follow up with detailed root cause investigation and timely resolving the complaint.
- You are responsible for performing root cause investigation for various issues, coordinate issues with other teams, and pay attention to detail in order to resolve issues.
- You have recurrent conference calls with your stakeholders to discuss processes, overcome obstacles and make agreements. You apply continuous improvement method/thinking while working on process improvements. You analyze and assess data and deviations to enable smooth process flows.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- HBO (Hoger Beroepsonderwijs/ Higher Professional Education) work & thinking level
- 2+ years’ experience in export related customer care or logistics environment
- Fluent in English
- Customer service focus
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- Computer literacy (MS-Office & ERP Systems)
- Strong sense of responsibility and high flexibility
- Able to prioritize in a constantly changing environment and to deal with stress
- Problem solving skills and Solution Minded
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
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.
About Medtronic
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.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here
