Product Development Operations Leader

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Operations Leader to join the Supply Chain team, supporting New Product Development in Gore Medical. In this role, you will represent Supply Chain as a Core Team member for one or more new product development efforts. The successful candidate will be responsible for integrating and operationalizing all components of the end-to-end supply chain for new product development projects in alignment with business and supply chain strategies to ensure stable, profitable, and scalable products and processes at launch.

This position will be located at our facility in Phoenix or Flagstaff, Arizona, with the possibility of a hybrid work arrangement.

• Develop the New Product Development (NPD) Supply Chain system requirements and key performance indicators to monitor progress and ensure execution towards Supply Chain Stakeholder Requirements
• Align with the Supply Chain & Process Architects and/or Product Operations Leaders to develop and ensure sustainment of manufacturability goals and key performance indicators for the product throughout the development life cycle, ensuring an on‑time launch with a reliable supply chain
• Assess and drive manufacturability of the overall product and process design throughout the design and development cycle to achieve stakeholder and system requirements. Ensure supply chain is set up to scale at rate for new product launch
• Leverage the Gore Business System (GBS - a systemic approach for driving performance improvement daily across the Enterprise), embedding its principles into daily operations and leadership behaviors, to create a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
• Drive alignment across engineering and end‑to‑end supply chain capability teams to understand and execute to NPD project team needs, timelines, and goals.
• Ensure the delivery of materials, components, products, equipment, services, and completion of NPD process Supply Chain deliverables in alignment with mutually agreed project goals and milestones, strategies for leveraged capabilities, and business supply chain architecture
• Define and as required provide leadership to operational support team
• Identify commercialization and supply chain risks and drive appropriate mitigation strategies
• Drive operational plans for life cycle scalability, launch readiness, and product commercialization across the end‑to‑end supply chain, including integration during all life cycles with forecasting for financial outlook and Sales & Operational Process (S&OP) for NPD and commercial production
• Establish clear expectations of equitable and inclusive behaviors from Associates and act immediately to appropriately address negatively impactful or unfair behavior

• Bachelor's degree with an operation, supply chain, or technical emphasis OR a minimum of 5 years of demonstrated equivalent experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in supply chain, engineering and/or manufacturing operations roles across product life cycles
• Minimum 2 years demonstrated effective cross‑functional leadership and ability to influence across product lifecycle
• Demonstrated experience in creating and maintaining an inclusive work environment with clear understanding of equitable practices
• Demonstrated depth of knowledge of medical product supply chains
• Demonstrated knowledge of design for manufacturability, lean manufacturing and problem‑solving approaches, and the ability to apply this knowledge to supplier base, manufacturing, product & process design
• Demonstrated track record of clear decision making and organizational alignment
• Strong written/oral, organizational, data analytical skills, and attention to detail
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 20%, considering project locations

• MBA and Minimum 10 years Supply Chain Leadership experience
• Experience identifying customer and business needs and translating to objective Supply Chain requirements and product development strategies
• Strong business acumen with demonstrated track record of balancing short‑term execution with long‑term strategic planning

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