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 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 Position
As Sr.Manager, IT – Manufacturing applications, you will lead a team responsible for driving the design, development, and integration of manufacturing applcation solutions and associated applications.
This role will also work closely with senior leadership and peers across Intuitive's manufacturing operations and IT organization.
Essential Job Duties
- Review current business application and solution landscape to develop Manufacturing solutions roadmap in the areas of Plant to make, Engineering to execution, Quality and Factory automation functions
- Provide leadership in functional design, implementation, and support of the Manufacturing and product quality applications.
- Operate as a trusted IT partner and IT applications leader for operations business functions.
- Work with key business stakeholders to analyze requirements and assess impact of use cases, to ensure the solution will produce desired business outcomes.
- Investigate, research and evaluate new applications and/or technologies and application integrations that will improve business productivity.
- Building business case and estimate, clearly setting expectation with business on scope and timeline
- Engage with vendors to determine solutions that best fit to the manufacturing solutions roadmap
- Ensure that solution architecture designed by solution architects and analysts are scalable and in sync with business needs.
- Perform deep analysis to translate complex business information to actionable system activities; recommend best practices; and present associated technical process components.
- Coaches other team members with design and thought leadership to achieve organizational goals.
- Interact on a day-to-day basis with other analysts, business leadership, SME and IT team members to support business operations and drive change management.
- Facilitate change management and transition to future state working with various stakeholders.
- Identify and participate in prioritization of business capabilities and act as a catalyst for building mature and scalable processes.
- Coaching and teaching: Teaches reports to perform current job tasks and provides coaching and development for 1-2 years out
- Accountability: Accountable for team goals and for other managers and individuals on the team - creative in succeeding
- Personal commitment: Recognizes potential team issues, proposed solutions, and gains commitment of team and other peer managers.
- Build high performance Organization: Hires, trains, develops teams and other managers.
Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience implementing SAP S4, MES applications in a medical device or high-tech manufacturing industry are required.
- Minimum 12+ years of Implementing Planning systems is required.
- 5+ years of experience as a people leader is required.
- In depth knowledge of business processes in the areas of Manufacturing execution, inventory control, product quality and engineering to execution.
- Experience with E2E Supply Chain processes (e.g., Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Inventory Management) is desired.
- Experience in medical device manufacturing or life sciences industry is preferred.
- Excellent communication skills to present complex ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of individuals at all levels of the organization.
Required Education and Training
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, information systems or related field, or equivalent work experience is required
Working Conditions
Preferred Skills and Experience
- SAP functional skills
- PMP certification
- CPIM or CSCP – preferred
- MES skills
