Sr Manager Supplier Engineering

Intuitive-; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive is seeking a Senior Manager to lead a team of SP Instruments Supplier Engineers, ensuring supply continuity and driving cost-efficient production.

The role focuses on supplier quality, capability and capacity development, risk mitigation, and alignment with enterprise supply chain objectives. You will coach and develop talent while partnering with cross-functional teams to scale manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Develop leadership capability through coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and organizational development.
• Lead a team of supplier engineers who deliver value to the business through specified activities.
• Develop and execute a global supply-chain strategy and roadmap to support product strategy and ramp.
• Conduct market research for supplier selection to enable agility and innovation during NPI.
• Drive supplier development, performance, and compliance with QMS requirements.
• Identify and mitigate supply-chain risks through cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop leadership capability through coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and organizational development.
• Lead a team of supplier engineers who deliver value to the business through the following activities.
• Supply-chain Strategy: Develop and execute a global supply-chain strategy and roadmap to support Intuitive’s product strategy and ramp.
• Supplier Selection: Conduct market research to identify trends and select suppliers to enable agility and global production scale.
• Supplier Development and collaboration: Drive new technologies and automation in the supply chain; adopt best practices like Lean, Six-sigma, and Project management.
• Supplier Performance and Monitoring: Develop KPIs to monitor delivery, capacity, cost, and quality; drive continuous improvement.
• Supplier Compliance: Work with Supplier Quality to resolve audit findings and maintain QMS compliance.
• Supplier Risk management: Identify risks and implement mitigation with Global Supply Chain and cross-functional teams.
• Supplier Change management: Execute change processes for large-scale projects supporting capacity scaling and cost reduction.
• Stakeholder Influence: Align project ownership and hand-off with peer supplier engineering groups and key partners.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Mentoring

Succession planning

Organizational development

Supply chain

Supplier management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder influence

Project management

Job description

Job Description

Supplier Engineering Mission and Organization Structure at Intuitive:

Supplier Engineering’s mission is to ensure supply continuity for purchased parts at the lowest landed cost.

The successful candidate will develop and lead a team of SP Instruments Supplier Engineers. Key Objectives of this role are:

• Build trust with the cross-functional teams (DE, ME, QE, PM, Production, GSC). Act as the Supply Chain voice.

• Reduce and prevent continuity issues in production.

• Reduce DFM issues and ensure smooth scale-up during product ramp.

• Lowers total cost and supply chain risks.

• Develop and qualify capable processes with suppliers for new parts, assemblies, and finished products.

The Senior Manager drives supplier quality, supplier capability and capacity development, operational excellence, risk mitigation, organizational effectiveness, and talent development while creating alignment between Intuitive production priorities and enterprise supply chain objectives.

Essential Job Duties:

Develop leadership capability through coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and organizational development.

Lead a team of supplier engineers who deliver value to the business through the following activities.

• Supply-chain Strategy: Develop and execute a global supply-chain strategy and roadmap for a long-term, sustainable, and resilient supply-chain to support Intuitive’s Product strategy and roadmap.

• Supplier Selection: Conduct market research to identify trends in your commodity area and accordingly select and evaluate suppliers to enable Agility and innovation during New Product Introduction, and to enable production scale globally for products that reach broad commercial launch. Establish a strong partnership with the NPI sourcing team to incorporate commercial viability in the supplier selection process.

• Supplier Development and collaboration: Drive and adopt new technologies and automation in the supply chain to achieve high efficiency and production scale. Champion best practices like DFX, Lean, SPC, Six-sigma, Project management, in the supply chain. Establish clear communication channels with suppliers and manage both technical and business relationships

• Supplier Performance and Monitoring: Partner closely with suppliers to select optimal mfg process and process controls to achieve high quality and cost performance. Develop effective KPIs to monitor supplier performance (delivery, capacity, cost, quality). Execute projects towards continuous improvements of KPIs.

• Supplier Compliance: Partner with Supplier Quality team to drive audit finding resolution with suppliers through processes like CAPA and SCARs to maintain compliance with QMS requirements

• Supplier Risk management: Partner with Global Supply Chain and cross-functional Engineering teams to identify various risks within the supply chain and implement mitigation measures.

• Supplier Change management: For commercially launched products, execute Intuitive’s change management processes like major/moderate change (MCF), Supplier Change Request (SCR) and Change Order (CO) to support large-scale projects towards capacity scaling, cost reduction, product quality improvement, and supply-chain risk mitigation.

• Stakeholder Influence: Aligning/Negotiating on project ownership and hand-off points with various peer Supplier engineering groups. Influencing decisions with key partners in Global Ops (planning, sourcing, purchasing), Engineering (Design, Process, Quality) and Project Management Org.