Senior Buyer, Direct Joint Replacement, Global Procurement Center

As a member of our Supply Chain team, you will make a daily impact on the lives of others. Apply today and you will get a chance to work with high-functioning, driven people who all have the same mission of making healthcare better. Plus, we have an award-winning culture and were recently named one of the World's Best Workplace by Fortune!

We are looking for a Senior Buyer to join our Procurement Center in Warsaw. The role operates in conjunction with Supply Planners, Production Schedulers, Sourcing, Customer Service, Incoming Inspection, and Accounts Payable teams.

What you will do :

• Advanced procurement expertise.
• Significant responsibilities include risk management, problem-solving, and strategic initiatives.
• High strategic impact.
• Drives strategic decisions and long-term solutions in procurement and supply chain management
• Maintain master data set up in the transactional systems, including e.g., but not limited to: supplier lead time, lot size and buyer purchasing group.
• Communicate forecast requirements to suppliers based on information from production schedulers and supply planning.
• Ensure all POs are placed according to the rules and execute Order Confirmation from supplier.
• Act as the first line of contact with suppliers and provide information based on the current supply requirement.
• First point of escalation for supplier issues, supports Associate Buyers and Buyers.
• Prepare reports.
• Represents purchasing function at meetings.
• Coordinates tracing and managing KPIs and metrics, including on time and in full delivery (OTIF), material lead time compliance, PO compression days, past due invoices and POs for the team, etc.
• Identify gaps and opportunities and lead continuous improvement projects both externally with the supplier and internally within the purchasing function and with key stakeholders and supportive functions.
• Involvement in projects.
• Serve as subject matter expert in purchasing activities and systems.
• Demonstrate acumen towards cost, cash flow and risk and problem solving independently to support business needs.
• Review of back order and safety stock health in order to manage deliveries from suppliers.
• Point of contact for Accounts Payable for invoice resolution: price mismatch, quantity mismatch etc.
• Other activities indicated by supervisor.

What you need :

• Master's degree level in Business/Engineering/Supply Chain management or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in Purchasing, Procurement, or Manufacturing.
• Fluent in written and spoken English. A second language may be required, depending on the supplier base.
• Very good knowledge of MS Office: Excel, PowerPoint & Word.
• Previous experience in supplier relationship management.
• Good communicator & problem solver.
• Experience with ERP systems i.e., SAP, Oracle, JDE.
• Previous experience in medical devices or other regulated industry.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies & cost reduction methodologies.

About Stryker

Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, is driven to make healthcare better.

The company offers innovative products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopedics, and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 100 million patients annually.

More information is available at stryker.com