Program Manager NPI Sourcing

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  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 Scope of Work Assigned as lead for programs and leads spend category(s); complex program/spend/risk; requires little oversight from manager.  Manages procurement of direct materials and strategic sourcing initiatives to support new product introduction. Requires knowledge of key supplier capabilities and matches the capabilities to new product design. Track and manage purchase orders, delivery commitments to support ramp up of new products.

Work closely with strategic sourcing and engineering to ensure that the appropriate supplier strategy is implemented for new product release and production ramp.

Establish material requirements from engineering, new product build schedules and maintain appropriate inventory for production. Evaluates supplier capabilities and works with supplier engineering and strategic sourcing to develop new supply sources as needed. Monitors cost, capacity, and delivery schedule to ensure availability of material for production schedule.

Essential

Job Duties Administers and manages purchase orders and delivery requirements to designated suppliers as necessary to support NPI and/or sales requirements within the business.
Supports performance management and improvement efforts for designated suppliers, including coordinating supplier business reviews.

Coordinates engineering change order activity with suppliers andother functional groups.

Capacity:
Identify potential supplier capacity issues and works in conjunction with strategic sourcing and supplier engineering toresolve these issues and ensure no impact to project schedule

Cost: track purchase price variance. assist with cutover management planning, supporting identification of new cost reduction opportunities. Creates, updates and review product material cost models.

Risk: support administration of SCRM tool to ensure accuracy of dataand support specific risk mitigation projects

Supplier Performance: supports preparation of supplier scorecards and supplier business reviews.

Manages quoting activity with suppliers to support supply chain optimizations.

May support market research to find appropriate supplier(s) for various commodities and manufacturing processes.

Main areas of activity

Leads complex programs from a total performance perspective, inclusive of supply chain strategy, cost, quality, inventory, capacity and risk management ownership.  Some oversight from manager

Creates program supply chain design strategy, identifies RFx opportunities; able to conduct analytics; negotiates and implements points; presents summary and implications to leadership

Performs market research with limited oversight from manager, significant complexity

Supplier Selection:
Lead strategy, internal discussions, identification and implement decisions aligned with strategic sourcing…