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Principal Production Planner

Maple Grove US-MN, United States | N/A

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Hybrid

Requisition ID

636616

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role

Join Boston Scientific as a Principal Production Planner on our Commercial Planning team in Maple Grove, MN! In this pivotal role, you’ll help lead the production planning processes that enable us to deliver high-quality medical devices to patients and customers around the world. Our planners are passionate about continuous improvement and partner closely with teams across the value stream to improve processes, tools, and systems.

This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of key production planning functions and drive business-critical initiatives such as Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP), execution alignment (SIOE), and Lean Business Process (LBP) improvement projects. You’ll use your strategic thinking, data analysis skills, and ability to influence across regions and functions to help ensure our supply chain meets customer needs and business goals.

Work model and sponsorship:

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our local office at least three days per week. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Serve as a key point of contact for production units, sister sites, and global supply chain partners during SIOP and SIOE planning processes.
• Provide strategic direction on manufacturing priorities to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proactively identify and resolve material shortages impacting build plans.
• Identify opportunities and lead projects to improve service levels, build plan adherence, on-time delivery, and inventory optimization.
• Manage WIP and subassembly inventory for assigned production areas.
• Train team members and associates on planning and materials management processes.
• Maintain and manage master data elements including safety stock, yields, lead times, and more.
• Conduct inventory analysis and create recovery plans as needed.
• Perform “what-if” scenario planning to support decision-making.
• Actively lead and support continuous improvement and Lean initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on product lifecycle management activities.
• Work independently on complex projects with long-range impact.
• Interface with senior leadership on high-visibility initiatives and planning decisions.
• Provide departmental leadership support and assist manager with team direction.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in manufacturing planning, inventory control, demand planning, or a supply chain function
• Proven experience with the Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) process