Senior Buyer/Planner - Shockwave Medical

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: February 15, 2025

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a Senior Buyer/Planner - Shockwave Medical to join our team located in Santa Clara, CA.\rAt Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.\rFor more than 130 years, diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) has been a part of our cultural fabric at Johnson & Johnson and woven into how we do business every day. Rooted in Our Credo, the values of DEI fuel our pursuit to create a healthier, more equitable world. Our diverse workforce and culture of belonging accelerate innovation to solve the world's most pressing healthcare challenges. We know that the success of our business - and our ability to deliver meaningful solutions - depends on how well we understand and meet the diverse needs of the communities we serve. Which is why we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging where all perspectives, abilities and experiences are valued and our people can reach their potential.\rAt Johnson & Johnson, we all belong.\rShockwave Medical, Inc., recently acquired by Johnson & Johnson, is a pioneer in the development and commercialization of Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) to treat complex calcified cardiovascular disease. Shockwave Medical aims to establish a new standard of care for medical device treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease through its differentiated and proprietary local delivery of sonic pressure waves for the treatment of calcified plaque.\rPosition OverviewThe Senior Buyer/Planner will play a pivotal role in the development and production of our medical devices. He/she will be responsible for procuring and planning goods and services for R&D and production to meet and maintain service levels, quality, cost/project budget, and targeted inventory levels. This also includes establishing and fostering relationships with suppliers, communicating, and negotiating with suppliers to ensure delivery schedules are met, best prices are obtained, and in compliance with regulatory requirements and Shockwave quality standards.\r\rEssential Job Functions

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• Sources, purchases, plans, and schedules the movement of raw materials, packaging materials, parts, components, and services including subcontract, supplies, finished goods, and related materials through the production and inventory process.
• Reviews purchase requisitions for completeness; reviews support documentation, currency, payment terms, alignment of backup documentation to requisition, and clarity of description.
• Create purchase orders and provide monthly forecasts to suppliers based on production planning requirements.
• Identifies raw material, components, and related requirements from engineering and production specifications and schedules. Coordinates quality matters and engineering/changes or developments to suppliers.
• Apply various costing and pricing techniques to effectively negotiate the best pricing with suppliers and meet quality, reliability, and delivery objectives. Examples of techniques include benchmark study, VA/VE, competitive bidding, BOM cost, should cost, etc.
• Coordinates and follows up with production, warehouse, and engineering personnel to ensure appropriate procurement, scheduling, and movement of materials and services.
• Monitors status of open purchase orders to ensure on-time delivery of all materials, including timely resolution, communication, and mitigation of future potential issues. Expedite material delivery or explore other possible options with suppliers to avoid parts stock out.
• Resolves issues regarding PO to invoice discrepancies, returns, quality issues, and non-conformances with suppliers.
• Supports R&D group for early supplier selection and cost negotiation; initiates new supplier set-up process.
• Produces and develops relevant inventory and procurement reports on a regular basis to track and monitor various areas of performance.
• Collaborates with vendors to conduct physical inventory, report, and resolve potential issues on inventory discrepancy.
• Attends daily production meetings, tracks inventory, and production status; resolves and escalates issues that can potentially impact supply; provide receiving inspection and lot release testing priority in response to product demand.
• Conducts weekly meetings with key vendors to ensure that delivery schedules are on-track and resolve supplier-related issues.
• Initiates and coordinates shipments of components to sub-contracted vendors for further processing and performs purchase order returns for parts that need to be returned to the vendor.
• Leads activities related to the MRP/ERP system, including writing and executing work instructions, data collection and input into ERP, master data setup and clean-up, and reporting. Complete various transactions into the ERP system as required.
• Other duties as assigned.\r\r

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