Intuitive Surgical

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The NPI Supply Chain Program Manage will manage procurement of direct materials and strategic sourcing initiatives to help 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 help 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 maintains 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 insure availability of material for production schedule.

Essential Job Duties

• Administers and manages purchase orders and delivery requirements to designated suppliers as necessary to help NPI and/or sales requirements within the business.
• Reviews, interprets, and communicates material demand forecast and manages capacity planning for assigned commodity.
• Help performance management and improvement efforts for designated suppliers, including coordinating supplier business reviews.
• Coordinates engineering change order activity with suppliers and other functional groups.
• Capacity: Identify potential supplier capacity issues and works in conjunction with strategic sourcing and supplier engineering to resolve these issues and insure no impact to project schedule
• Cost: track purchase price variance. assist with cutover management planning, helping identification of new cost reduction opportunities. Creates, updates and review product material cost models.
• Risk: help administration of SCRM tool to ensure accuracy of data and specific risk mitigation projects
• Supplier Performance: help in preparation of supplier scorecards and supplier business reviews.
• Drive quoting activity with suppliers to help supply chain optimizations.
• May do some market research to find appropriate supplier(s) for various commodities and manufacturing processes.