NPI Supply Chain Program Lead
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
|---|---|
| Location | Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Advanced MS Office skills (MS Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Excel (Vlookup, Pivot Table, Charts, and filtering)
- Working knowledge of buying, material planning, master scheduling, and forecasting.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills is required. Ability to communicate both at the high (strategic) and detailed (tactical) levels.
- Proven ability to consistently achieve stretch goals and objectives.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully.
- Outstanding verbal, written communication, and concise and persuasive presentation skills.
- Ability to influence without authority.
- Expected minimum 25% travel to both domestic and international suppliers.
- Required onsite presence of 4 days per week.
- Minimum BS degree or equivalent and 10+ years of purchasing and supply chain experience in a regulated industry manufacturing environment (medical device preferred).
- Significant computer experience including MS Office suites and ERP systems, preferably SAP and Agile, BOM structure.
Responsibilities
- Administers and manages purchase orders and delivery requirements to designated suppliers as necessary to support NPI and/or sales requirements within the business.
- Reviews, interprets, and communicates material demand forecast and manages capacity planning for assigned commodity.
- Supports performance management and improvement efforts for designated suppliers, including coordinating supplier business reviews.
- Coordinates engineering change order activity with suppliers and other functional groups.
- Identify potential supplier capacity issues and works in conjunction with strategic sourcing and supplier engineering to resolve these issues and insure no impact to project schedule.
- Track purchase price variance. assist with cutover management planning, supporting identification of new cost reduction opportunities. Creates, updates and review product material cost models.
- Support administration of SCRM tool to ensure accuracy of data and support specific risk mitigation projects.
- Supports preparation of supplier scorecards and supplier business reviews.
- Manages quoting activity with suppliers to support supply chain optimizations.
- May support market research to find appropriate supplier(s) for various commodities and manufacturing processes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a regulated industry manufacturing environment (medical device preferred).