Manager, Material Control

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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. 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.

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This manager position has responsibility for efficient implementation of engineering change orders (ECO) and factory moves with respect to supply chain and inventory related performance. Work scope includes oversight of supply‑chain processes and tools to evaluate the impact(s) of engineering change orders, line moves, and plant expansions that can include lead time changes, supplier delivery quota changes, inventory cut‑over/transition plans (including rework, use‑up and scrap actions), required material set‑up and planning attribute changes in SAP, and alignment of demand schedules and impact to inventory stocking locations.

The role collaborates with Purchasing, Sourcing, Scheduling, Production Planning, Manufacturing, Engineering, Supplier Engineering, Finance, and Warehouse to develop scalable business processes, standards and deliver beneficial performance improvements across Operations.

Additional Areas Of Responsibility Include

• Develops and utilizes reporting tools to intelligently identify engineering change orders, line moves and plant expansions that impact component material supply for both Sustaining and NPI managed products.
• Utilizes and refines existing metrics suite to provide an overall view of engineering change orders and production line readiness where supply chain action/response plans are required as well as provide a summary status of execution progress toward identified action plans.
• Influences and provides input to material planning and inventory management policies based on practical experience with processing engineering change orders and production location changes.
• Develops performance reports to communicate impact(s) resulting from engineering change orders and production line changes to inform leadership level of stakeholder functions. Examples include purchase price variances, rework or scrap costs, cost avoidance, inventory coverage/run‑out, supplier spend/quota impacts, change order processing volumes and backlog, etc.
• Responsible for the evaluation and reduction of unactionable MRP generated exception messages related to engineering change order processing. Drives rates of improvement for MRP accuracy and actionability in conjunction with enterprise level goals.

Essential Job Duties

• Actively assesses the population of engineering change orders which have material change impacts and production line changes. Includes evaluation of potential supply continuity and excess or obsolete material risks. Ensures reviewers from Global Supply Chain (Purchasing) are adequately completing planning tasks and approvals…