Primary Function of Position:
- Manages procurement of direct and indirect materials to support business requirements. includes sourcing, negotiating costs, purchase order management, and inventory management.
- Assists with key procurement initiatives as directed by management.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Plans all purchased parts within responsibility area and makes decisions to release, firm, cancel, or defer purchase orders based upon current inventory, demand, and capacity.
- Responsible for maintaining appropriate inventory levels to support production plan.
- Reviews, interprets, and communicates material demand forecast and manages capacity planning for assigned commodity groups and/or supplier relationships.
- Attends and supports internal meetings and frequent Supply Chain Conference-calls with partners and suppliers
- Supports performance management and improvement efforts for designated suppliers.
- Utilizes lean sourcing principles (Kanban, consignment, and other similar material pull methods) to achieve 100% material availability and optimize on-hand inventory.
- Embraces continuous improvement techniques to drive toward attainment of key purchasing metrics (supplier OTD, risk management, inventory velocity, and cost reduction).
- Leverages problem solving skills to propose solutions to identified supply chain issues.
- Supporting engineering change order activity with suppliers and other functional groups.
- Leads quoting activity with suppliers to support supply chain optimizations.
- Invoice reconciliation
- Creating manual purchase requisitions
- Responsible handling of sensitive and confidential data required
- Comply with all company, regulatory, environmental and safety regulations
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
- BA degree in economics, Industrial Business Management Assistant or equivalent and at least 2 years of purchasing experience in a regulated industry manufacturing environment (medical device preferred).
- Good computer experience including MS Office products, SAP, Coupa, Agile
- Deep working knowledge of buying, material planning, master scheduling, and forecasting.
- Demonstrates concern for precision and thoroughness.
- Proven ability to achieve given goals and objectives.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects successfully.
- Good communication and collaboration skills (written and verbal) interacting with partners, suppliers and internal stakeholders across different time zones
- Teamplayer
- Good language skills in Business English
Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
