Sr Manager Supplier Engineering

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Job Description Supplier Engineering Mission and Organization Structure at Intuitive:

Supplier Engineering’s mission is to ensure supply continuity for purchased parts at the lowest landed cost.

The successful candidate will develop and lead a team of SP Instruments Supplier Engineers. Key Objectives of this role are:

Build trust with the cross-functional teams (DE, ME, QE, PM, Production, GSC). Act as the Supply Chain voice.

Reduce and prevent continuity issues in production.

Reduce DFM issues and ensure smooth scale-up during product ramp.

Lowers total cost and supply chain risks.

Develop and qualify capable processes with suppliers for new parts, assemblies, and finished products.

The Senior Manager drives supplier quality, supplier capability and capacity development, operational excellence, risk mitigation, organizational effectiveness, and talent development while creating alignment between Intuitive production priorities and enterprise supply chain objectives.

Essential

Job Duties:

Develop leadership capability through coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and organizational development.

Lead a team of supplier engineers who deliver value to the business through the following activities.

Supply-chain Strategy:
Develop and execute a global supply-chain strategy and roadmap for a long-term, sustainable, and resilient supply-chain to support Intuitive’s Product strategy and roadmap.

Supplier Selection:
Conduct market research to identify trends in your commodity area and accordingly select and evaluate suppliers to enable Agility and innovation during New Product Introduction, and to enable production scale globally for products that reach broad commercial launch. Establish a strong partnership with the NPI sourcing team to incorporate commercial viability in the supplier selection process.

Supplier Development and collaboration:
Drive and adopt new technologies and automation in the supply chain to achieve high efficiency and production scale. Champion best practices like DFX, Lean, SPC, Six-sigma, Project management, in the supply chain. Establish clear communication channels with suppliers and manage both technical and business relationships

Supplier Performance and Monitoring:
Partner closely with suppliers to select optimal mfg process and process controls to achieve high quality and cost performance. Develop effective KPIs to monitor supplier performance (delivery, capacity, cost, quality). Execute projects towards continuous improvements of KPIs.Supplier Compliance:
Partner with Supplier Quality team to drive audit finding resolution with suppliers through processes like CAPA and SCARs to maintain compliance with QMS requirements

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Risk management:

Partner with Global Supply Chain and cross-functional Engineering teams to…