Senior Program Manager, NPI Sourcing

Primary Function of Position

• Responsible for supply chain readiness, launch, and scale of new robotic systems platforms. 
• Manages supply chain deliverables for new product introductions (NPI) of the highest value with the most complex direct materials, including supplier selection & sourcing, leading creation & adoption of category launch roadmaps, leading cross functional projects to launch & scale new products, developing & negotiating contracts, analyzing spend, creating inventory management strategies, and managing supplier performance.
• Thought leader within Global Supply Chain: develops and refines key business processes; champions and mentors team members in use of Sourcing processes; monitors industry and professional best practices

Essential Job Duties

• New Product Program Leadership & Category Management
  • Provides cross-functional team leadership within assigned new product program(s) of highest complexity; leads cross functional program updates, executive reviews, and alignment forums.
  • Leads creation, management, and execution of program roadmaps to achieve cost, capacity, speed to market, and risk contract goals.
  • Provides cross-functional team leadership within assigned category(ies) of highest complexity; leads cross-functional category team meetings

• Leads creation of long-term supplier strategies and roadmaps; able to navigate complex trade-offs in supplier strategies. Effectively influences broader organization through expert requirements gathering and leading adoption of developed strategies.
• Co-leads direct procurement supplier selection process with collaboration from Supplier Engineering. Expertly and independently deploys 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.

• Supplier Performance Management

• Proactively collaborates with supply base and procurement team to understand and communicate demand changes and minimize excess inventory or material shortages during program development. Able to expertly translate business shifts and design changes to suppliers and effectively understand root cause of demand changes internally.
• Collaborate with strategic sourcing teams on shared supplier performance escalations, lead supplier escalations for new suppliers to support NPI program deliverables.
• Effectively escalates for issue resolution with supplier executive leadership. Possesses executive presence and awareness and able to drive problem resolution onsite at suppliers.

• Risk and Capacity Management

• Develops high complexity mitigation plans and programs for assigned suppliers and critical sub-tier suppliers; implements plans when applicable
• Leads capacity assessments for assigned suppliers and critical sub-tier suppliers; operating on three-to-five-year horizon for capacity strategies for global category and able to marshal support for proactive mitigations
• 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

• Expert contract and cost negotiator; independently establishes contractual agreements with suppliers and amendments to existing agreements. Develops new contract language and templates as required.
• Negotiates long-term commercial agreements with executive leadership of suppliers. Installs development, cost, scale, risk mitigation and capacity agreements with key suppliers to support Intuitive’s new product introductions & volume growth.
• Leads identification and implementation of cost reduction ideas to achieve program contract cost goals.

• Acts as key thought leader within the Global Supply Chain organization through monitoring of industry and profession trends, determining, influencing, and implementing needed process improvements, and mentoring colleagues throughout the supply chain organization.