Inventory Clerk- IV (Finance)

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 29 May 2025

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
You will be a key member of Global Robotics Service & Support (GRSS) organization providing service operations support to the program. Impact patient outcomes. Come for a job, stay for a career.

Surgical Robotics

Surgical Robotics employees believe that every patient around the world deserves access to quality and improved outcomes. Driven by our Mission, we believe that surgical robotics can add value to the healthcare ecosystem, lessen variability, and help more people around the world get better, faster.

We're making that exciting future possible - and disrupting one of the biggest and fastest growing markets in healthcare - with a game-changing portfolio of robotic and data & analytics technologies, services, and solutions.

A Day in the Life

As the Inventory Clerk, Service Operations, you will work on global efforts to align service inventory, facilitate product returns, transact service functions within SAP. Through these functions you will achieve objectives for service, inventory management, and operating goals. You will help to manage product returns, material history research, materials, deliveries, resolve inventory & service transaction conflicts, and complete SAP system transactions for service operations. You will also work closely with our Supply Chain, Finance, Field Returns team, Regional Service, and Distribution Center Operations teams to meet shared goals.

Location: North Haven, CT

Ability to travel: 0% (Domestic and International)

You will:

Execute inventory management processes and procedures

Complete cycle count of inventory

Track and measure inventory activity against key performance indicators

Manage material movements and delivery for capital and spare part requests

Collaborate closely with North Haven Field Returns team to plan inventory movements

Deliver operational results to internal stakeholders

Execute internal material movements within the SAP system and physically

Operate at an exceptional level to improve operational efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the GRSS team.

Support SAP Service and Business functions such as field service, repair in service center, returns management, refurbishment, intercompany returns, service contracts, repair pricing and billing, preventive maintenance, logistics and other service and repair activities

Complete necessary training and tool use to achieve a world class team.

Identify and act on opportunities, issues, and problems in a changing environment.

Must Have: Minimum Qualifications

- Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience and may require vocational or technical education or certification in addition to prior work experience

Nice to Have:

Surgical robotic system experience

Field or depot service experience

Forklift certification

Planning and inventory management experience

SAP Module experience

Knowledge of distribution, logistics, warehousing, and transportation in a highly regulated industry

Demonstrated use of Microsoft Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Access)

Experience working in a matrix environment

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Ensures that inventories are secure, properly identified and readily accessible to authorized personnel.
• Maintains controls over various types of inventories (e.g., raw materials, subassemblies, finished goods).
• Conducts physical inventory counts and reconciles results with inventory records.
• Ensures that quantities of incoming and outgoing shipments are correct .
• Conducts analyses of inventory levels and coordinates with production and sales requirements.

PRODUCTION SUPPORT CAREER STREAM: Provides support in manufacturing operations and/or distribution centers including assembly, machinery, processing, packaging, and/or distribution of company products. May set up and operate automatic or semiautomatic machines and related equipment in a continuous production/processing operation. Reports any malfunctions or abnormalities in machines, with higher levels recommending and/or making adjustments to methods and processes. May be involved in shipping, receiving, inventory control, or storage of products in distribution centers.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Works on assignments that are complex in nature.
Trains, delegates and reviews the work of lower level employees and may be responsible for leading daily operations of a work team.
Performs a variety of complex or technical-advanced clerical duties in distribution center.

Organizational Impact: Often acts as a facilitator and team leader in manufacturing/production operations or distribution center.
Work may include complex and complicated activities related to special assignments, and providing instructions to accomplish day-to-day activities to junior individuals in the department .

Innovation and Complexity: Problems faced are general and may require understanding of other job areas but typically are not complex.
May be responsible for working with supervisor to identify potential adjustments or enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area .

Communication and Influence: Communicates typically with internal and external contacts, as needed.
Obtains and provides information on matters of significant importance to the job area.

Leadership and Talent Management: May act as a team lead and assistant to the supervisor / manager.
May delegate tasks to other team members and be responsible for the review of work product.
Does not have formal management responsibilities, but may provide input to management in this area.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires advanced knowledge within a specific discipline typically gained through broad work experience and/or education.
Requires minimum of 8 years of experience and may require vocational or technical education or certification in addition to prior work experience.
May require vocational training and/or certification.

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.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$53,600.00- $80,400.00

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance , Health Savings Account , Healthcare Flexible Spending Account , Life insurance, Long-term disability leave , Dependent daycare spending account , Tuition assistance/reimbursement , and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match , Short-term disability , Paid time off , Paid holidays , Employee Stock Purchase Plan , Employee Assistance Program , Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) , and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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 .

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