At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds. As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered and recognised. **What You Can Expect** As a key member of the Commercial Operation team, this role is responsible for enabling the execution of strategic inventory objectives by leveraging data analytics to assess processes, determining requirements, and delivering data-driven recommendations and reports to team leads, executives and commercial stakeholders within the market or cluster. In addition, it is responsible for the entire inbound supply chain from Node 1 to customers, product expiry management, consignment and loan optimization, product allocation and consignment audit management. **How You'll Create Impact** + Manage the Consignment and Supply team, whose principles duties are to administrate the Node 1 to Customer inbound supply chain, including kit purchasing, daily inventory ordering, kit creation in SAP, all deployments to customers from Node 1 or Node 2, in-country backorder management and Node 1 to Node 2 or Node 1 to customer allocation requests, interacting with GCO team. + Manage the Consignment Audit team to ensure 100% audit count and closure each financial year, with reconciliations posted in SAP and consignment contract maintenance + Manage the Inventory Administration team to ensure Zimmer Biomet policies on product expiry management are adhered to, along with any other Inventory related tasks + Prepare and report analytics around consignment, warehouse, and loaner inventory, including the ability to make recommendations on the utilization and efficiency of the company’s assets + Prepare (leverage) analytics (already available PowerBI Dashboards) around brand rationalization including the impact on inventory and sales + Work with the commercial operations, sales, and marketing teams to devise strategy on brand life-cycle management + Work with stakeholders in the Sales Organisation to proactively identify potential to redeploy inventory kits (instrument and implant) to more productive sales opportunities from unproductive accounts + Pre-emptively review and report on all product expiry within the markets including notification to the relevant stakeholders and proactive resolution + Review and report on all aspects of restricted stock within the markets including notification to the relevant stakeholders and proactive resolution + Analysis of inventory along with E&O to be able to advise of issues and recommend solutions + To administer inventory adjustments on SAP as required + Work with SAP, Power PI, Teams, and any associated Zimmer Biomet tools to develop and report KPIs on inventory and instruments + Analysis of Commercial Operations departmental KPIs as necessary + Identify and develop any further KPIs not currently being reported + Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies + Support key projects by developing project plans and monitoring performance + To establish and maintain a close working relationship between commercial operations, sales and marketing teams + Maintain current product knowledge of Zimmer portfolio, across all segments to allow sound business decision, pertaining to consignment placements, levels and Bell-curving + Performing user acceptance testing where required. + Work towards robust back-up structure of the CAPEX & Inventory Team **_Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organisation_** **What Makes You Stand Out** + Able to communicate verbally and in writing in English + Effective Team working + People management + Customer focus + Ability to work independently + Attention to detail and quality focused + Advanced planning and organizational abilities + Problem solving and analytical skills + Ability to prioritize and manage large workload and meet definite deadlines + The individual should have the ability to solve a complexity of problems in inventory efficiency + Self-motivation and drive + The ability to manage time effectively + Good work ethic and reliable + Is open to new ideas and experiences, flexible in approach to work + Positive "can do" attitude **Your Background** + Excellent analytical, problem solving, and organizational skills. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Excellent skills in working with Excel, database software and statistics. Ability to implement business needs into technology. Outstanding abilities to work in a team environment and handle responsibilities. Superior presentation skills and report drafting abilities. Familiarity with collecting, and compiling business data. + The candidate should ideally be educated to degree level in a scientific discipline or Business Administration. + A knowledge of management accounting procedures, marketing strategy and selling skills. + Flair for the motivation of others, without direct responsibility + Negotiation within the company and with third parties + Competent with the use and analysis of EXCEL, SFDC, SAP and Business Warehouse + Intimate knowledge of Orthopaedic consignment management processes, deployment, returns & relocations. **Travel Expectations** EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability