Commodity Lead

**Company Description**: Descripción de la empresa

En Intuitive, estamos unidos detrás de nuestra misión: creemos que la atención mínimamente invasiva es la atención que mejora la vida. Mediante la inventiva y la tecnología inteligente, ampliamos el potencial de los médicos para curar sin limitaciones.

Como pioneros y líderes del mercado en cirugía robótica, nos esforzamos por fomentar un equipo inclusivo y diverso, comprometido con marcar la diferencia. Durante más de 25 años, hemos trabajado con hospitales y equipos de atención de todo el mundo para ayudar a resolver algunos de los desafíos más difíciles de la atención médica y avanzar en lo que es posible.

Intuitive se ha construido gracias a los esfuerzos de grandes personas de diversos orígenes. Creemos que las grandes ideas pueden provenir de cualquier lugar: nos esforzamos por fomentar una cultura inclusiva basada en la diversidad de pensamientos y en el respeto mutuo. Lideramos con inclusión y capacitamos a los miembros de nuestro equipo para que trabajen de la mejor manera y manifiesten su auténtica personalidad.

Las personas apasionadas que quieren marcar la diferencia impulsan nuestra cultura: los miembros de nuestro equipo se basan en la integridad, tienen una sólida capacidad para aprender, la energía para hacer las cosas, y aportan experiências diversas del mundo real para ayudarnos a pensar de nuevas maneras. Invertimos activamente en los miembros de nuestro equipo para apoyar su crecimiento a largo plazo y así poder continuar avanzando en nuestra misión y alcanzar su máximo potencial.

Únase a un equipo comprometido a dar grandes pasos hacia delante para una comunidad global de profesionales de atención médica y sus pacientes. Juntos, avancemos en el mundo de la atención mínimamente invasiva.

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

Roles and Responsibilities:
Commodity Management: provides cross-functional team leadership within assigned commodity(s):

- 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 in order 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.
- Leads capacity assessments for assigned 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 commodity(s)
- Operational Management
- Supports plant purchasing by leading negotiations with suppliers to adopt and implement lean sourcing principles (e.g. kanban) to enable