Director, Sustaining Purchasing

**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.

**Primary Function**:
This position is under the direct supervision of Senior Director, Global Supply Chain and has responsibility for procurement operations to scale the manufacture and servicing of Intuitive’s commercialized products. Specific areas of responsibility include oversight to direct materials purchasing staff and processes to support factory operations within North America, component material planning, management of supplier delivery performance, compliance to financial goals and regulatory controls, execution of material supply plans to support manufacturing schedules, raw material inventory, and delivery performance. Position will also support operational initiatives and plans as related to purchasing direct materials across Intuitive’s global network of factory operations.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- People and team
- Select and develop supporting staff to meet current and future business requirements
- Maintains employee training curriculums, training compliance, and employee specific talent plans
- Creates and maintains employee succession and staffing plans for department workload distribution
- Develops, communicates and drives execution of goals to meet operational priorities and plans as related to purchasing operations
- Emulate and drive Intuitive’s Culture Strategy by fostering our mission, founding principles, individual and leadership expectations.
- Functional
- Develops and maintains department operating procedures and business systems to maintain compliance and future scalability to meet long term Company needs.
- Presents and manages performance to core metrics associated with Purchasing Operations: examples include supplier on-time delivery, raw material inventory turnover, purchase order and MRP exception message processing, and engineering change order (ECO) execution- Engages with Master Scheduling and Manufacturing functions to support build plan adherence, implementing material plan adjustments on quarterly basis and scenario planning where required.
- Ensures effectiveness of ECO implementations as related to supply continuity and inventory risk concerns.
- Drives inventory performance to balance Company investment with service level requirements.
- Supports team or may lead resolution of critical supply constraint issues to ensure that business interruption risks are minimized. Communicates status of top risk issues to manufacturing leadership and enables team’s ability to communicate demand/supply scenarios and contingency planning. Identifies and recommends where Company investment is required to mitigate business risk.
- Manages annual standard cost setting and ensures purchasing practices enable optimal purchase price
- Participate and/or lead in the continuous improvement of current systems and processes to meet scale: systems and process development projects; partnering with supporting functions to deliver transformational changes
- Ensures accuracy and efficiency of purchasing processes and supplier collaboration tools to scale Intuitive’s business.
- Engages with Strategic Sourcing and commodity management teams to evaluate performance of existing supplie