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
Change your career to exploration, innovation, and championing healthcare access and equity for all. Join a healthcare technology company that alleviates pain, restores health, and extends life for more than two people every second.We are looking for a Transportation Analyst to support our Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Transportation Planning Team. In this role, you will primarily be active in our new developed Transport Management System (TMS), creating shipments and follow up on them, ensuring timely pickup and delivery. Our scope spans from the raw material supplier to the customer. A proactive attitude and strong communication skills are essential. In this role, you have the chance to truly impact the lives of our patients.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Acting as the Point of Contact for Sites for Transportation Matters and executing plans in accordance with transportation policies and procedures
- Coordinating, scheduling, and overseeing shipment activities, collaborating with other business functions for efficient transportation execution
- Ensuring deliveries are punctual and cost-effective and optimizing modes and carriers to achieve service /cost goals
- Maintaining robust communication with carriers, suppliers/vendors and customers
- Addressing carrier exceptions and escalating when needed. Including Manually load non-ERP shipments into the TMS
- Resolving track and trace exceptions, such as customs delays
- Initiate process improvement initiatives
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Logistics/Transport and/or Economics
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a Transportation position
- General knowledge of SAP and Transport Management Systems
- Strong Excel skills
- Fluent in both written and spoken English
- Strong communication and reporting skills
Experience in working in a multinational healthcare environment and being yellow belt certified are considered advantages for this role.
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
