Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain

## Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain Apply:
South Jordan, UT:
Full time:
Posted Today:
JR117824
** Why Merit?
** At Merit Medical, our mission is to create innovative medical devices that improve lives. Our goal is to hire and develop people who want to build something special through hard work, team effort, and commitment. Together, we are making a difference in the lives of patients around the world.
** WORK SHIFT
** DAY (United States of America)
** SUMMARY OF DUTIES
** The Vice President, Global Supply Chain provides enterprise leadership for the end-to-end global supply chain, including Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE), demand and supply planning, production and distribution planning, inventory management, procurement, sourcing, logistics, warehousing, and supply chain analytics. This executive develops and executes a global strategy that supports growth, customer service, operational resilience, profitability, and working capital performance across a complex, multi-site manufacturing and distribution network.

The role is accountable for global inventory investment and health, including the proactive management of excess, slow-moving, scrap, and obsolete inventory. The Vice President partners with Commercial, Operations, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, Engineering, Information Technology, and business leaders to align demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and financial priorities, while building a high-performing global organization and driving standardization, digital transformation, and measurable productivity improvement.
** ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS PERFORMED*
* • Develops and executes the global supply chain strategy, translating enterprise priorities into capabilities, investments, governance, and measurable outcomes.
• Leads global, multi-site teams; standardizes policies, processes, systems, and performance management; and provides supply chain leadership for strategic initiatives, integrations, and network changes.
• Owns global IBP/S&OP and S&OE processes, aligning demand, capacity, supply, inventory, and financial plans while managing near-term constraints and service risks.
• Establishes planning governance and uses analytics and scenario modeling to improve forecast accuracy, plan stability, schedule adherence, service, and responsiveness.
• Owns global inventory strategy, policies, targets, controls, and performance across raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods.
• Optimizes inventory and working capital while governing excess, aged, slow-moving, scrap, and obsolete stock; partners cross-functionally to address root causes, reduce write-offs, and proactively manage lifecycle and supply risks.
• Leads demand, supply, production, capacity, distribution, and inventory planning while optimizing the global manufacturing, supplier, logistics, and distribution network for service, cost, resilience, and scalability.
• Establishes supply chain risk and business continuity capabilities, leads responses to critical disruptions, and evaluates sourcing, capacity, inventory positioning, and network design alternatives.
• Provides strategic direction for global procurement, sourcing, supplier management, logistics, warehousing, and distribution to advance continuity, quality, cost, delivery, compliance, and risk diversification.
• Establishes supplier and logistics performance management and drives transportation, distribution, and warehousing strategies that improve service, visibility, compliance, and total delivered cost.
• Leads the global supply chain technology, data, and analytics strategy, including ERP, advanced planning, business intelligence, automation, and a common end-to-end data model.
• Partners with Information Technology on system…