About this role
Associate Supply Planner
Work flexibility: Hybrid Req ID: R569536 Employee type: Full Time Job category: Supply Chain Travel: 10% Relocation: No
Make an impact by ensuring the right products are available at the right time to support customers and business performance. As an Associate Supply Planner, you will play a critical role in transforming demand signals into executable supply plans, balancing service, inventory, capacity, and cost while partnering with leaders across the organization. This role offers strong visibility, exposure to business decision-making, and opportunities to influence supply chain performance through data-driven planning and continuous improvement.
What You Will Do Develop and manage supply plans for assigned Finished Goods Operations portfolios, ensuring alignment with demand requirements and agreed service level targets. Analyze inventory, capacity, lead times, supply constraints, and business trade-offs to create executable and financially aligned supply plans. Evaluate supply plan impacts on inventory, cost, cash flow, and operational performance in partnership with Finance and Procurement teams. Represent supply plans, risks, constraints, and recovery scenarios during business and leadership reviews, providing clear recommendations and decision options. Identify supply risks, backorder drivers, and root causes, then lead mitigation actions and recovery planning to minimize business impact. Manage finished goods safety stock levels, supply execution activities, and capacity planning processes to support operational performance objectives. Monitor planning and procurement execution against approved plans, track key performance indicators, and drive corrective actions when targets are not met. Improve planning processes, master data quality, planning automation, and standardization initiatives to enhance efficiency and planning effectiveness.
What You Will Need
Required Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related field. Minimum 1 year of experience in supply planning, demand planning, production planning, or a closely related supply chain function. Experience managing end-to-end supply planning activities, including inventory management, service level performance, capacity planning, and supply constraints. Experience using SAP-based planning systems, such as SAP ECC, SAP APO, SAP IBP, or equivalent enterprise planning solutions. Fluency in English, written and spoken.
Preferred Experience supporting Finished Goods Operations, Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM), or contract manufacturing environments. Experience participating in executive supply reviews, integrated business planning, or sales and operations planning processes. Experience supporting new product introductions, product transfers, supplier readiness activities, or supply chain change initiatives.
Poland Pay Ranges: Poland: zł96.500 - zł160.900 PLN Annual
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Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.