Company Description
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 more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around around the world.
The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.
If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help **transform the future of healthcare** , you’ll find your purpose here.
Job Description
Primary Function of the Position
The Senior Supply Chain Analyst, NPI Sourcing will be a results-oriented leader that ensures consistent best practice usages of strategies, tools and processes across the New Products supply chain. This role works with NPI Sourcing, strategic sourcing, design engineering, supplier engineering, value engineering, manufacturing engineering and finance ensuring strategic and tactical alignment facilitating team wide New Products Supply Chain performance. This individual will report into the Senior Director Global Supply Chain, NPI and will also drive business objectives in order to drive product launch timelines, scalability, capacity, inventory and cost plans required to build a world-class supply chain.
Essential Job Duties
- Create and lead internal cross functional alignment process, as well as tools to enable new product readiness and project performance.
- Lead and drive internal review processes, leading meetings, owning and maintaining program and project data, reviewing projects across Intuitive product families, enabling material and inventory readiness, supply capacity readiness, risk mitigations, and cost planning.
- Drive consistent and continuously improving project phase gate readiness, anticipating challenges, creating a platform for proactive engagement, review and industry leading performance.
- Publish regular reporting on key program metrics, including: capacity, item risk, cost, ASL readiness, cost, and actions required to close.
- Drive consistency of data, reporting, project management, and performance across product lines
- Candidate will be responsible for ensuring an environment where strong collaboration exists across the new product functional teams within Intuitive
- The candidate will work with business owners and functional leaders to identify project managers, supplier engineers, design engineers and strategic sourcing to implement a standardized process to ensure performance across functions, through a high degree of data aggregation, analysis, and identifying actions to drive:
- Supply risk identification and mitigation
- Supply capacity management
- Materials and inventory management
- Cost
- Utilization, knowledge and mastery of the following tools will be critical to performance:
- SAP
- Agile
- Supplier portal
- Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) , Tableau
- Smartsheets
- Act as a subject matter expert for overall new product introduction, our phase gate process, and our supply chain requirements. Facilitate integration of process and systems while understanding the interdependencies of existing projects, products and our supply chain in order to improve operational efficiencies, align to best practices, and allow for scalability and growth.
- Analyze and maintain knowledge in emerging supply chain projects, new product introduction
- 33% of the role is around supply chain strategies and process, 33% of the role is around stakeholder interaction and process design and 33% of the role is around project management and execution
