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: Management • 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; and • 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; and • 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: Day Travel: 10% of the time