Director, Global Procurement - Sustaining Products

Company Description

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. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

This position is under the direct supervision of Senior Director, Global Supply Chain and has responsibility for procurement operations to scale the manufacture and servicing of Intuitive’s commercialized systems (capital equipment) products. Specific areas of responsibility include:

• Oversight and development of direct materials purchasing staff and processes to help factory operations within North America;
• Component material planning, management of supplier delivery performance;
• Compliance to financial goals and regulatory controls;
• Execution of material supply plans to help manufacturing schedules; and
• Ensuring an efficient raw material inventories and supplier delivery performance.

Position will also help operational initiatives and plans as related to purchasing direct materials across Intuitive’s global operations.

Essential Job Duties

People and team

• Select and develop staff to meet current and future business requirements
• Maintains employee training curriculums, training compliance, and employee specific talent plans
• Creates and maintains employee succession and staffing plans for department workload distribution
• Develops, communicates and drives execution of goals to meet operational priorities and plans as related to purchasing operations
• Emulate and drive Intuitive’s Culture Strategy by fostering our mission, founding values, individual and leadership expectations.

Functional

• Develops and maintains department operating procedures and business systems to maintain compliance and future scalability to meet long term Company needs.
• Presents and manages performance to core metrics associated with Purchasing Operations: examples include supplier on-time delivery, raw material inventory turnover, purchase order and MRP exception message processing, and engineering change order (ECO) execution
• Engages with Master Scheduling and Manufacturing functions to build plan adherence, implementing material plan adjustments on quarterly basis and scenario planning where required.
• Ensures effectiveness of ECO implementations as related to supply continuity and inventory risk concerns.
• Drives inventory performance for company investment with service level requirements.
• May manage resolution of critical supply constraint issues to ensure that business interruption risks are minimized. Communicates status of top risk issues to manufacturing leadership and enables team’s ability to communicate demand/supply scenarios and contingency planning. Identifies and recommends where Company investment is required to mitigate business risk.
• Manages annual standard cost setting and ensures purchasing practices enable optimal purchase price
• Participate and/or manage in the continuous improvement of current systems and processes to meet scale: systems and process development projects; partnering with other functions to deliver transformational changes
• Ensures accuracy and efficiency of purchasing processes and supplier partnership tools to scale Intuitive’s business.
• Engages with Strategic Sourcing and commodity management teams to evaluate performance of existing suppliers and operational risks as well as provide input to supplier specific or commodity specific sourcing strategies. Includes alig