Category Lead

1 month ago

Sunnyvale, California, United States Intuitive Surgical Full time
Job Description

Primary Function of Position

  • Manages supply chain of high value, complex direct materials to support business continuity and optimization, including sourcing, supporting development of category strategy roadmaps, negotiating contracts, analyzing spend, creating inventory management strategies, gathering commodity intelligence, and managing supplier performance; may include limited management of purchase orders.
  • May lead cross-functional commodity team.
  • Identifies and drives key procurement initiatives.

Essential Job Duties

  • Category Management: provides cross-functional team leadership within assigned category(ies):
  • Supports creation of long-term supplier strategies and roadmaps
  • Co-leads direct procurement supplier selection process with collaboration from Supplier Engineering and guidance from manager. Leverages strategic sourcing practices to identify a core supply base able to offer lowest total cost of ownership and high-quality product while identifying value improvement opportunities.
  • Engages with internal stakeholders to develop and influence commodity strategy that aligns with long term business objectives
  • Supports alignment of production supplier requirements and sourcing strategies with those of new product development (NPI) for designated suppliers/commodities to ensure uninterrupted material availability, alignment of risk, and cost goals with long term vision for the commodity / business
  • Prioritizes commodity team projects
  • Ensures defined commodity team goals and objectives are achieved
  • Leverages knowledge of commodity trends to propose strategies
  • Develops and may lead quarterly commodity or sub-commodity strategy reviews
  • Supplier Performance Management
  • Leads supplier scorecarding and supplier business reviews for assigned suppliers
  • Proactively collaborates with supply base and tactical purchasing to manage quarterly forecast demand updates to minimize excess inventory or material shortages.
  • Leads continuous improvement efforts needed with suppliers
  • Risk and Capacity Management
  • Develops mitigation plans and programs for assigned suppliers and critical sub-tier suppliers.
  • Leads capacity assessments for assigned suppliers and critical sub-tier suppliers
  • May serve as project manager for key supplier capacity or risk mitigation initiatives.
  • Leverages problem solving skills and develops counter-measures to implement long-term solutions to identified problems.
  • Contract and Cost Management
  • Establishes contractual agreements for new partners and revises existing agreements to align with changes to Intuitive's contract strategy
  • Establishes long term volume pricing, risk mitigation, and capacity agreements with key suppliers to support Intuitive's volume growth
  • Reviews, administers, and manages long-term purchase order and delivery commitments to designated suppliers as necessary to support production and/or sales requirements within the business.
  • Leads identification and implementation of cost reduction ideas to achieve year-over-year cost goals within assigned category(ies)
  • Operational Management
  • Supports plant purchasing by leading negotiations with suppliers to adopt and implement lean sourcing principles (e.g. kanban) to enable 100% material availability and optimization of on-hand inventory levels.
  • Embraces continuous improvement techniques to drive toward attainment of key purchasing metrics (supplier on-time delivery, quality, risk management, inventory velocity, and cost reduction).
  • May lead change management/change order implementation for complex projects
  • Supports master data integrity for suppliers and parts
  • Mentors colleagues within the supply chain organization. Identifies process and training improvement opportunities and drives closure of identified gaps.

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