Senior Buyer

Overview

Senior Buyer (Finance)

Company Description
It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive
. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care
, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion
—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide. We re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare
, you ll find your purpose here.

Job Description

Function:

• 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 techniques identify and complete key procurement initiatives, and enhance the performance of the purchasing function.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• 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.

• 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

• o Supports construction of annual cost reduction plan to achieve corporate initiative plan for designed suppliers/parts.
• o Leads creation, negotiation, and management of commercial agreements - covering cost, quality, and delivery terms

Qualifications

Skill/

Job Requirements:

• BS degree or equivalent and 8+ years of purchasing experience in a regulated industry manufacturing environment (medical device preferred).
• Certifications:
  
  CPSM, CPIM, and/or PMP is a plus.
• Significant computer experience including MS Office products and ERP systems, preferably SAP and Agile. Strong Excel skills.
• Proven track record of effective project management in a fast-paced manufacturing company.
• Thorough knowledge of and experience working with kanban systems and other…