Asset Analyst in Newbury

The Asset Specialist is a person that works together and influences management in the country/region leadership team regarding the Asset Management Strategy for inventory in the field.

What you will do:

• Provide direct input, advice and guidance to the sales Divisions in relation to the best options for sourcing the Kits and Assets requested by the sales teams in the countries or region of coverage.
• Provide guidance to define the optimal level of existing consignment inventory and related optimization.
• Lead and initiate discussions and present recommendations for asset and inventory optimization to the local and European business leadership teams.
• Provide guidance and advisory to the Divisions for the most cost-effective decisions on CERs.
• Responsible for supporting the local RCC process, respecting SOX, Finance and compliance requirements.
• Ownership of the consignment write-offs and disposal, including the management of expiry dates in consignment and product replacements.
• Manage local PLCM and phase in/out process.
• Focus on making local procedural changes and new or more effective ways to accomplish tasks, achieving team goals or performing team functions, standardized across Europe.
• Play an active role in the European Operations team as we strive to implement a world-class asset and inventory management strategy.
• Identify appropriate benchmarks and share best practices.
• Take ownership or participate in projects to further improve European asset and inventory management capabilities resulting in increasing customer satisfaction, increasing efficiency, lower costs and optimized inventory levels.
• Participate in discussions with Supply Chain to ensure assets and inventory are available when required by customers.
• Build, liaise and maintain relationships and collaborate with colleagues across functions (Operations, Finance, etc.), divisions (Sales, Marketing) and leadership.
• Track and handle CERs.
• Review existing inventory and raise and monitor purchase requests against capital budget.
• Provide evidence and reporting of budget spent to the divisions.
• Provide feedback and detailed ROI reports to decision makers.
• Track and report on Return on Investments (ROI) for local investments made (Kits & consignment, capital placement).
• Ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) related to assets and inventory are monitored and achieved.
• Track and analyse STC and Demo fleet (turns, returns, etc.).
• Proactively manage ‘pending kits’ and provide visibility to the business for accelerating deployment or decommissioning of kits.
• Gather, analyse, validate, and clean Kit & consignment data, and review resulting statistical and accurate asset and inventory level information for country or region.
• Take ownership and participate in projects to further improve the European Stryker Customer Logistics function, resulting in increasing customer satisfaction, increasing efficiency, lower costs and optimized inventory levels.
• Play an active role in the European Operations team as we strive to implement a world-class Logistics and Customer Care Operation.
• Identify appropriate benchmarks and share best practices that drive efficiency and productivity.

What you will need:

Essential qualifications:

• 1-2 Years of experience within Asset Management or Supply Chain/Planning/customer service.
• Influence skills to work with senior leaders and drive agenda and strategy.
• Proven excellent communication skills.
• Relationship building experience across divisions.
• Can demonstrate a high level of problem-solving skills, especially complex problems.

Desirable qualifications:

• Experience with continuous improvement and change management.
• Experience in an international environment.
• Experience creating reports using data modelling software.
• Drive SOP alignment and standardisation.

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, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.