Materials Planner III, Supplies & Accessories

Overview

At Spacelabs Healthcare, we are on a mission to provide continuous innovation in healthcare technology for better clinical and economic outcomes. Our scalable solutions deliver critical patient data across local and remote systems, enable better-informed decisions, increase efficiencies, and create a safer environment for patients.

Why work at Spacelabs? Because lives depend on you!

At Spacelabs Healthcare, you make a difference. Every member of our worldwide team is integral in improving treatment and helping providers deliver exceptional care to their patients. From newborns to centenarians, more than 60 million people benefit yearly from the advancements we make in patient monitoring and management, care coordination, and clinical decision support.

Driven by the belief that anyone who seeks care could be a member of our own family, our team is dedicated to solving the greatest challenges the healthcare system currently faces, including the need to enhance the patient experience, improve population health, reduce costs, support care team well-being, and advance health equity. As part of our mission, we take pride in creating services and technologies that are personalized and tailored to support the needs of healthcare providers anywhere in the world.

While we may not be at a patient’s bedside, their health is still in our hands.

The Material Planner III is responsible for end-to-end demand and supply planning for Spacelabs Supplies & Accessories, ensuring continuity of supply, optimal inventory investment, and strong customer service performance in a highly regulated medical device environment. This role owns the statistical baseline forecast and cross‑functional consensus demand plan, translates demand into replenishment signals (MRP/DRP), and partners with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Quality/Regulatory, Operations, suppliers, and third‑party distribution partners to manage constraints, mitigate risk, and drive forecast accuracy and inventory turns.

The senior planner establishes and maintains planning parameters (safety stock, reorder points, lead times), monitors KPIs (service level/OTIF, forecast accuracy/MAPE, past‑due/backorders, excess & obsolete), and leads continuous improvement of planning processes, data quality, and reporting.

*** This is a hybrid position based in Snoqualmie, Washington, with the expectation of onsite collaboration 3 or more days per week, depending on business needs.***

• Own the end-to-end demand plan for Supplies & Accessories, integrating statistical forecasting with market intelligence (historical demand, seasonality, installed base usage, promotions, NPI/EOL, distributor/channel signals, and customer/backorder trends).
• Lead the monthly demand review and cross-functional consensus process; document assumptions, align on upside/downside scenarios, and communicate key drivers, risks, and opportunities to stakeholders.
• Translate the approved demand plan into supply and replenishment requirements (MRP/DRP), maintaining planning parameters including lead times, MOQ/pack sizes, lot sizing, safety stock/reorder points, and service-level targets.
• Monitor supply constraints, inventory positions, and supplier performance; proactively identify shortages, long-lead risks, and allocation needs; coordinate mitigation actions with Buyers, Operations, and suppliers.
• Partner with the third-party distribution partner to reconcile demand signals, inventory on hand/in transit, and replenishment needs; ensure clear communication of available-to-promise, substitutions, and lead-time changes.
• Own planning performance metrics and cadence reporting (Forecast Accuracy/MAPE & Bias, OTIF/Service Level, backorders/past due, inventory turns, and Excess & Obsolete); drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Optimize inventory investment while protecting customer service, including segmentation (ABC/XYZ), safety stock strategy, and obsolescence planning for regulated/controlled items and shelf-life/expiry constraints (as applicable).
• Serve as a key stakeholder in product lifecycle governance (ECO/PCN, substitutions, part-number changes, NPI/EOL transitions) to ensure…