Summary: This strategic Supply Chain Planner role develops and optimizes long-term supply chain strategies, focusing on analysis, coordination, and data-based decision-making for efficiency and scalability. Highlights: 1. Lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation 2. High-impact role blending analytics, strategy, and execution 3. Collaborate daily to improve supply chain efficiency 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** ===================== We’re a mission\-driven leader in medical technology and solutions with a legacy of integrity and innovation. Work with us to incentivize better patient care and partner across the industry to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Be a part of a community of experts committed to ensuring quality, affordable healthcare worldwide. This position is a strategic Supply Chain Planner role responsible for developing and optimizing long\-term supply chain strategies that support business growth and operational efficiency. The role focuses on analyzing capacity constraints, supporting production location decisions, and coordinating key initiatives such as product launches, promotions, and network redesigns. By monitoring sales and operations planning performance metrics and cost\-to\-serve data, the position drives data\-based decision\-making and cross\-functional collaboration across Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Manufacturing. It’s a high\-impact role that blends analytics, strategy, and execution to ensure an agile, efficient, and scalable supply chain. **Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:** * Translate supply chain strategies into executable supply and network plans that support business objectives. * Analyze capacity constraints and supply risks, supporting decisions on production locations, sourcing, and inventory positioning. * Support execution of new programs, product launches, and promotions by maintaining accurate forecasts and coordinating with cross‑functional teams. * Monitor key S\&OP metrics and cost‑to‑serve indicators, identifying gaps and proposing corrective actions. * Collaborate daily with Global Supply, Demand Planning, Logistics, Finance, and regional teams to improve supply chain efficiency and drive continuous improvement initiatives. **Required Knowledge and Experience:** * Bachelor’s degree * 2 or more years of relevant demand or supply planning experience * Fluent English is a must * Fluent in Portuguese is a nice to have * Communication and Influence: Communicates primarily and frequently with internal contacts. * External interactions are less complex or problem solving in nature. * SAP (ECC) Experience **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. This position is eligible for a short\-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). **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.