Senior Buyer

Senior Buyer

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$85,300.00/yr - $/yr

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life‑enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints. As a pioneer and market leader in robotic‑assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere and we strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real‑world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long‑term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Function

Job Description

• Manages procurement of direct materials to support business requirements: includes purchase order management, sourcing, contracting, spend analysis, inventory management, and supplier performance management.
• Leverages enterprise tools and systems to drive continuous improvement and identify and complete key procurement initiatives, and enhance the performance of the purchasing function.

• Reviews, administers, and manages purchase orders and delivery commitments to designated suppliers as necessary to support production and/or sales requirements within the business.
• Reviews, interprets, and communicates material demand forecast and manages capacity planning for assigned commodity groups and/or supplier relationships.
• Supports alignment of production supplier requirements and sourcing strategies with those of product development (NPI) for designated suppliers/commodities to ensure uninterrupted material availability, alignment of risk, and cost goals with vision for the business.
• Owns performance management and improvement efforts for designated suppliers, including leading regular supplier business reviews.
• Utilizes lean sourcing principles (kanban, consignment and other similar material pull methods) to achieve 100% material availability and optimize on‑hand inventory.
• Embraces continuous improvement techniques to drive toward attainment of key purchasing metrics (supplier on‑time delivery, quality, risk management, inventory velocity, and cost reduction opportunities).
• Leverages problem solving skills and develops counter‑measures to implement long‑term solutions to identified problems.
• Coordinates engineering change order activity with suppliers and other functional groups.
• May mentor colleagues within the supply chain organization.
• Leverages best practice supplier selection techniques to identify a core supply base able to offer lowest total cost of ownership, high quality product, and on‑time delivery performance.
• Supports assigned commodity team by identifying and driving closure of risk mitigation and cost reduction opportunities, understanding commodity trends across the market, mentoring teammates, and supporting commodity projects as assigned.
• Cost and contracting
  • Supports construction of annual cost reduction plan to achieve corporate initiative plan for designed suppliers/parts.
  • Leads creation, negotiation, and management of commercial agreements – covering cost,…