Manager Sustaining Procurement

Company Description
Descripción de la empresa
En Intuitive, estamos unidos detrás de nuestra misión: creemos que la atención mínimamente invasiva es la atención que mejora la vida. Mediante la inventiva y la tecnología inteligente, ampliamos el potencial de los médicos para curar sin limitaciones.
Como pioneros y líderes del mercado en cirugía robótica, nos esforzamos por fomentar un equipo inclusivo y diverso, comprometido con marcar la diferencia. Durante más de 25 años, hemos trabajado con hospitales y equipos de atención de todo el mundo para ayudar a resolver algunos de los desafíos más difíciles de la atención médica y avanzar en lo que es posible.
Intuitive se ha construido gracias a los esfuerzos de grandes personas de diversos orígenes. Creemos que las grandes ideas pueden provenir de cualquier lugar: nos esforzamos por fomentar una cultura inclusiva basada en la diversidad de pensamientos y en el respeto mutuo. Lideramos con inclusión y capacitamos a los miembros de nuestro equipo para que trabajen de la mejor manera y manifiesten su auténtica personalidad.
Las personas apasionadas que quieren marcar la diferencia impulsan nuestra cultura: los miembros de nuestro equipo se basan en la integridad, tienen una sólida capacidad para aprender, la energía para hacer las cosas, y aportan experiencias diversas del mundo real para ayudarnos a pensar de nuevas maneras. Invertimos activamente en los miembros de nuestro equipo para apoyar su crecimiento a largo plazo y así poder continuar avanzando en nuestra misión y alcanzar su máximo potencial.
Únase a un equipo comprometido a dar grandes pasos hacia delante para una comunidad global de profesionales de atención médica y sus pacientes. Juntos, avancemos en el mundo de la atención mínimamente invasiva.
Job Description
Function:

Manage core operational responsibilities (i.e., material master data maintenance, material planning, purchase order issuance and management) for department.
Drive internal adoption to and compliance with established procurement policies and processes, and development of scalable business systems.
Engagement with strategic sourcing to support supplier identification and development efforts, analysis of business proposals, contract negotiations, supplier database management and supplier business reviews / performance scorecard programs.
Assist in driving key procurement initiatives to support ongoing business (CIP/WIN) goals and continuous improvement of systems and processes in the procurement organization along with other projects as directed by management.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Creates, trains and supports buyers on standard work, in order to maintain consistency in quality and quantity of work output.
Purchase order approval.
Capacity planning and balance of department workload.
Select, train, and develop skill level of subordinate personnel.
Lead buyers to meet target metrics.
Management of overall team performance including annual appraisals.
Responsible for effective implementation of relevant Engineering Change Orders (ECOs).

Supplier management:

Establish and ensure suppliers meet operational and project performance objectives.
Engages and may lead specific supplier business reviews.
Supports development of supplier strategies to meet Company performance and growth.
Drive installation of business interruption mitigations and commercial agreements with selected suppliers.
Completes key assessments for selected suppliers: cost benchmarking, quality system, capability and capacity reviews.
Support (or lead where required) supplier forecast and performance reviews to support supply planning and buffer demand volatility.

Project and production support:

Track line down occurrences and perform root cause analysis.
Implement corrective actions to remove supply chain risk.
Ensure expeditious delivery of all critical materials; and drive improvement initiatives with project or production management as applicable.

Cost and contracting:

Complete annual cost reduction plans to achieve corporate initiative plan where required.
Support (and may lead) implementation of business and quality agreements with selected suppliers to secure expectations for delivery, quality, cost and other obligations of the business relationship.
Supports standard cost setting activities.

Inventory management:

Implement inventory management techniques (Kanban) to increase raw material inventory turns performance.
Manage and provide critical inputs to excess and obsolescence reviews.

Business systems:

Increase productivity of buyers by reducing/eliminating administrative tasks with improved leverage of core business systems. Examples include:
Schedule agreement / control cycle.
Automating purchase orders placement.
Online quoting.
Paperless record management.
Drawing management/communication to suppliers.
Development/improvement of existing reports, create new reports/tools/automation improvements.

Compliance:

Ensures department and staff operating procedures meet established business processes and guidelines.
Develops and maintains applicable department work procedures and instructions.

Qualifications
Skill/Job Requirements:

BS degree or equivalent and 5+ years of experience managing a purchasing team in high and low volume-manufacturing environments. Significant new product introduction experience is a plus.
Significant computer experience including MS Office products and ERP systems, preferably SAP and Agile. Strong Excel and Database skills.
Proven track record of being an effective project manager in a fast paced, high volume manufacturing company.
Thorough knowledge of and experience working with Kanban systems and other lean principles.
Detailed working knowledge of buying, material planning, master scheduling and forecasting.
Demonstrates concern for precision and thoroughness.
Proven ability to lead a team to consistently achieve stretch goals and objectives.
Ability to provide positive direction by encouraging peers to have a commitment to high standards of quality and performance.
Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Effectively manages task breakdown, helps keep individual contributors on task, player-coach; ability to step in and perform hard tasks.
Strong negotiation skills and experience with proven track record of savings.
~20% travel to both domestic and international suppliers.

Additional Information
Intuitive es un empleador que brinda igualdad de oportunidades de empleo. Proporcionamos igualdad de oportunidades de empleo a todos los solicitantes y empleados cualificados, y prohibimos cualquier tipo de discriminación y acoso, independientemente de su raza, sexo, condición de embarazo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, origen nacional, color, edad, religión, condición de veterano protegido o de discapacidad, información genética o cualquier otra condición protegida por las leyes federales, estatales o locales aplicables.
Shift: DayTravel: 10% of the time

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