Buyer / Supply Chain / Procurement / Inventory

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 skill
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s and career. About The Role Join the Materials Management team at Boston Scientific as a Buyer III supporting the Plastics, Resins, and Chemicals (PRC) commodity team within the North America region. Boston Scientific is a global medical device manufacturer delivering millions of medical solutions annually. The PRC team manages a diverse portfolio of direct materials critical to manufacturing operations, including injection molding resins, chemicals, polymers, and other components supporting business growth across multiple product families.
The Buyer III is responsible for ensuring supply continuity, supplier execution, inventory health, and material availability for assigned commodities and suppliers. This role requires a highly organized and analytical buyer who can proactively manage supplier performance, identify and mitigate supply risks, support inventory optimization efforts, and collaborate across functions to ensure uninterrupted production support.
The ideal candidate operates with strong ownership and accountability, communicates effectively with suppliers and internal stakeholders, and can balance service, inventory, cost, and compliance objectives within a regulated manufacturing environment.
Work Model & Sponsorship At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to work onsite at an approved Boston Scientific location 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 Supply Continuity & Risk Management: Manage material availability for assigned suppliers and commodities; identify potential supply constraints, evaluate business impact, support mitigation activities, and proactively communicate risks.
Supplier Performance Management: Partner with suppliers to improve delivery performance, responsiveness, and execution of commitments; resolve delivery, quality, and supply-related issues through effective escalation and collaboration.
Purchasing Execution: Create, release, adjust, and expedite purchase orders based on MRP requirements, inventory targets, and production needs; Inventory Management: Balance inventory investment and service objectives by monitoring inventory levels, safety stock, demand changes, and supplier lead times; support disposition activities for excess and obsolete inventory.
Partner with Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Finance, and Global Sourcing to support production schedules, engineering changes, product transfers, qualification activities, and supplier recovery efforts.
Commodity & Supplier Monitoring: Track supplier capacity, raw material availability, lead-time changes, and market conditions that may impact supply continuity for plastics, resins, and chemical materials.
Data & Systems Management: Maintain purchasing master data, source records, supplier information, and planning parameters within SAP and other approved systems; leverage data to support purchasing decisions and performance monitoring.
Performance Improvement: Analyze key supply chain metrics including supplier OTD, shortages, backorders, inventory performance, forecast alignment, and supplier responsiveness; Digital Enablement: Utilize ERP, planning systems, reporting tools, and digital supply chain capabilities to improve visibility, efficiency, and decision-making throughout purchasing activities.
Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Industrial Engineering, o

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