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Integra LifeSciences

Regenerative medicine, surgical devices provider

Senior Specialist - Global Loaner Asset Management

Inventory ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRatingen, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, engineering, biomedical technology, operations, or a related field is required; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
  • Typically, 7 or more years of progressive experience in asset management, field service, repair operations, rental or loaner operations, supply chain, or medical-device service is required, including ownership of complex regional or global processes.
  • Demonstrated experience creating and implementing standard operating procedures, work instructions, process controls, service-level agreements, customer agreements, and governance frameworks in a regulated environment is required.
  • Strong working knowledge of asset lifecycle, serialized inventory, preventive maintenance, repair workflows, logistics, customs, financial controls, document control, and audit readiness is required.
  • Advanced capability with enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and reporting tools is required.
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate operational data into capacity plans, forecasts, business cases, risk assessments, and executive-level recommendations are required.
  • Strong project and change-management capability, with a record of standardizing processes across countries, functions, and third-party providers, is required.
  • Clear written and verbal English communication, strong negotiation and influencing skills, customer focus, and the ability to work effectively across cultures and time zones are required.
  • High attention to detail, sound judgment, an ownership mindset, and the ability to manage competing priorities and urgent customer requirements with limited supervision are required.
  • Ability to collaborate remotely across regions and participate in occasional calls outside standard local working hours when necessary to support global operations and assigned projects is required.

Responsibilities

  • Own and continuously improve the global operational lifecycle of PE rental, repair, and loaner assets, ensuring availability, compliance, traceability, financial control, and timely deployment to customers and service teams.
  • Own the end-to-end PE rental, repair, and loaner operating model, from demand intake and prioritization through allocation, shipment, return, decontamination, inspection, repair, preventive maintenance, redeployment, and retirement.
  • Act as the central asset-management partner for Service, Commercial, Technical Service Centre, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, Legal, Customer Service, and regional stakeholders.
  • Define governance, systems, agreements, work instructions, standard operating procedures, controls, and performance reporting for a scalable, audit-ready global loaner service.
  • Maintain complete accountability for PE rental, repair, and loaner assets, including ownership, location, status, configuration, serial-number traceability, valuation, maintenance history, availability, and disposition.
  • Plan and coordinate the operating workload across EMEA (approximately 70%), CALA (approximately 10%), and APAC (approximately 20%), balancing contractual commitments, customer urgency, clinical impact, asset availability, logistics lead times, and cost.
  • Establish a single intake, approval, and prioritization process; validate requests; reserve suitable systems and accessories; schedule dispatch and return; prevent double-booking; and escalate shortages or operational risks.
  • Coordinate shipment, installation readiness, customer handover, return authorization, decontamination evidence, incoming inspection, repair, preventive maintenance, calibration, software or configuration updates, quality release, redeployment, and end-of-life disposal.
  • Create and maintain standard agreements, addenda, service-level terms, responsibilities, handover and acceptance records, return conditions, liability and damage terms, freight responsibilities, rental charges, extension terms, loss provisions, and customer acknowledgement templates in partnership with Legal, Finance, Quality, and Commercial teams.
  • Own the operational system design and data quality for assets and transactions across approved systems such as Oracle, SFDC, service-management tools, Power BI, and controlled trackers; define required fields, status codes, interfaces, user roles, dashboards, data standards, and reconciliation controls.
  • Continuously assess and optimize asset-management, rental, repair, and loaner systems and workflows; identify gaps, simplify processes, improve automation and integrations, enhance user experience and reporting, test and validate changes, coordinate implementation with IT and business stakeholders, and ensure improvements remain compliant, scalable, and supported by controlled documentation and user training.
  • Draft, implement, train, and periodically review controlled work instructions and standard operating procedures covering request intake, approval, booking, dispatch, handover, tracking, extension, return, cleaning and decontamination, inspection, repair, maintenance, release, stock counts, damage or loss, escalation, and retirement.
  • Ensure activities meet applicable quality, regulatory, trade, customs, medical-device, data-integrity, health and safety, and record-retention requirements; maintain audit-ready records and support audits, corrective and preventive actions, investigations, complaint interfaces, and field actions as required.
  • Lead periodic physical counts and system reconciliation; monitor utilization, idle time, overdue returns, repair spend, freight, rental revenue, depreciation, losses and damage recovery; and support budget, forecast, and capital replacement planning.
  • Coordinate service centres, warehouses, carriers, customs brokers, and third-party providers; define service levels; monitor performance; and drive corrective actions for delays, damage, documentation gaps, or recurring failures.
  • Establish and report key performance indicators including asset availability, utilization, fulfilment rate, on-time delivery, turnaround time, overdue returns, repair cycle time, preventive-maintenance compliance, inventory accuracy, cost per deployment, damage or loss rate, rental revenue, and customer-service performance.
  • Lead process mapping, root-cause analysis, standardization, automation, and capacity optimization; develop business cases for additional loaners, repair capability, system enhancements, and regional stocking strategies.
  • Chair regular global loaner reviews, communicate priorities and constraints, provide transparent portfolio reporting, train users, and create clear escalation paths and responsibility assignment matrix ownership across functions and regions.
  • Maintain contingency plans for urgent clinical needs, asset shortages, transport or customs disruption, system outages, and high-impact equipment failures.
  • Allocate approximately 60% of working time to projects assigned by the Senior Manager, APAC Service and Repair, or other authorized business leaders; manage projects that may include system optimization, regional or global process improvements, operational excellence, service transformation, data quality, governance, implementation, and cross-functional initiatives, with clear scope, milestones, risks, actions, stakeholder communication, and documented outcomes.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Oracle, SFDC, service-management platforms, Power BI, and Microsoft 365 is preferred.
  • Additional languages are an advantage.

About the Company

Integra LifeSciences

Regenerative medicine, surgical devices provider

Integra LifeSciences develops regenerative medicine and medical devices to help tissue repair. Its core products include tissue regeneration scaffolds that are implanted on wounds to provide a temporary matrix for cells to grow, guiding the body’s tissue to replace damaged skin and other tissues, and then integrate into healing. The company differentiates itself through a diversified portfolio that includes neurosurgical devices, wound care products, and specialized surgical instruments obtained through acquisitions, spanning multiple surgical domains. Its goal is to broaden access to regenerative technology and raise standards of care in surgery and tissue repair.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Plainsboro Township, NJ
Founded
1989

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