Sr Buyer/Planner.

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Global Operations and Supply Chain (GOSC) enables Medtronic's global manufacturing, planning, sourcing, procurement, logistics, and distribution operations to ensure uninterrupted supply of medical technologies to patients worldwide. The function partners across manufacturing sites, suppliers, and business stakeholders to optimize material availability, inventory performance, and supply continuity while supporting business growth and operational excellence.

This position is based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and follows a Flex work arrangement, combining onsite and remote work based on business needs. Occasional travel of up to 10% may be required to support supplier, site, and business activities.

Job Description field

The Sr Buyer Planner is responsible for planning and procuring materials required to support production, inventory, and customer demand. This role coordinates with suppliers, manufacturing, sourcing, logistics, and cross-functional stakeholders to balance supply and demand, mitigate supply risks, and ensure material availability while meeting inventory, service, quality, and cost objectives.

Primary Responsibilities

• Plan and execute procurement activities to ensure timely availability of materials supporting production and customer demand.
• Manage purchase orders, supplier schedules, and delivery commitments to maintain continuity of supply.
• Monitor material requirements, inventory levels, and demand forecasts to optimize inventory performance and minimize shortages or excess inventory.
• Collaborate with suppliers to resolve delivery, quality, capacity, and supply issues impacting operations.
• Partner with manufacturing, sourcing, logistics, and planning teams to support production plans and business priorities.
• Analyze supply chain data and performance metrics to identify risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.
• Drive corrective actions and mitigation plans for material shortages, supply disruptions, and inventory imbalances.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance planning, procurement, and supply chain performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of buying, planning, procurement, supply chain, materials management, or operations experience.
• Experience managing purchase orders, supplier relationships, and material planning activities.
• Experience using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for planning and procurement transactions.
• Advanced English and Spanish communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience analyzing data and using Microsoft Excel to support planning and inventory decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a regulated manufacturing environment such as medical device, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or electronics industries.
• Experience with Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Material Requirements Planning (MRP), or inventory management processes.
• Experience managing supplier performance and supply continuity initiatives.
• Knowledge of sourcing, logistics, and end-to-end supply chain operations.
• Experience leading continuous improvement projects and process optimization initiatives.

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. 

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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.

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This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

Who We Are

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.

What We Do

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

How We Are Different

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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