Program Manager NPI Sourcing

Intuitive Surgical · Manufacturing

Hours: Full-time
Where: Sunnyvale, CA
Posted: Jun 29

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.

What you'd do

Administers and manages purchase orders and delivery requirementsto designated suppliers as necessary to support NPI and/or sales
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 for complex programs; creates recommendation, supports when leadership decision is required
Program & Program reviews: Leads slide creation for assigned category; builds long-term vision for complex categories; presents effectively to leadership
Leads identification of demand fluctuations, impact to capacity and supply amidst high complexity models and programs. Creates and implements action plans to resolve
Contracting: Creates and secures contracts to contract plan part by program.
Able to address most redline resolution independently using guidance document and experience; support from manager for complex situations; emerging capability to draft new or revised language
Cost Negotiation & Savings: create & implement multiyear (year over year) cost plan, communication, cross functional collaboration

What they want

Supports performance management and improvement efforts fordesignated suppliers, including coordinating supplier business
Coordinates engineering change order activity with suppliers andother functional groups.
Capacity: Identify potential supplier capacity issues and works inconjunction with strategic sourcing and supplier engineering to
Cost: track purchase price variance. assist with cutover managementplanning, supporting identification of new cost reduction
Risk: support administration of SCRM tool to ensure accuracy of dataand support specific risk mitigation projects
Supplier Performance: supports preparation of supplier scorecardsand supplier business reviews.
Manages quoting activity with suppliers to support supply chain optimizations.
May support market research to find appropriate supplier(s) forvarious commodities and manufacturing processes.
Advanced MS Office skills (MS Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel)
Excel (Vlookup, Pivot Table, Charts, and filtering)

About Intuitive Surgical · Manufacturing

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 at Intuitive. As 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…