Sr. Manager Supplier Engineering

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints. As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible. Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves. Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential. Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care. Primary Function of the Position: The successful candidate will lead a team of Supplier Engineers, to develop a portfolio of suppliers that deliver components, parts, and sub-assemblies at lowest landed cost for Intuitive’s robotic systems.  By building technical expertise and business acumen in the Robotics space including its primary commodities of Motion control (electric motors, gearboxes, brakes, sensors, and other actuators), Electronics (PCBAs, PCBs, and electrical harness assemblies), Metals (CNC machining, Castings), and Plastics (injection molding, thermoforming, reaction injection molding), Supplier Engineering leads the technical evaluation during supplier selection, works with suppliers to develop manufacturing processes for components, and qualifies these processes to ensure suppliers can deliver the quality, capability, capacity, and cost necessary to meet Intuitive’s needs. You will be responsible for the engineering relationship with many suppliers and the corresponding spend required to establish production, as well as for the discovery and development of new suppliers. You will strive to deliver the best-in-class performance score from your suppliers which is derived from several KPIs of Capacity, On-time Delivery, Cost reduction, Risk Mitigation, Product Quality and Service levels. Essential Job Duties: Lead a team of supplier engineers who are delivering value to the business through the following activities. Supply-chain Strategy: Develop and execute Global Supply-chain strategy and roadmap for long term, sustainable and resilient supply-chain to support Intuitive’s Product strategy and roadmap. Supplier Selection: Conduct market research to identify trends in the field of [plastics, Metal] manufacturing and accordingly select and evaluate suppliers to enable Agility and innovation during New Product Introduction, and to enable production scale globally for products that reach broad commercial launch. Establish a strong partnership with the commodity sourcing team to incorporate commercial viability in supplier selection process. Supplier Development and collaboration: Drive and adopt new technologies and automation in supply-chain to achieve high efficiency and production scale. Champion best practices like DFX, Lean, SPC, Six-sigma, Project management, into supply-chain. Establish clear communication channels with suppliers and manage both technical and business relationships Supplier Performance and Monitoring: Partner closely with suppliers to select optimal mfg process and process controls to achieve high quality and cost performance. Develop effective KPIs to monitor supplier performance (delivery, capacity, cost, quality). Execute projects towards continuous improvements of KPIs. Supplier Compliance: Partner with Supplier Quality org to drive audit finding resolution with suppliers through processes like CAPA and SCARs to maintain compliance with QMS requirements Supplier Risk management : Partner with Global supply-chain team to identify various risks within supply-chain and implement mitigation measures. Supplier Change management : For commercially launched products, execute Intuitive’s change management processes like major/moderate change (MCF), Supplier Change Request (SCR) and Change Order (CO) to support large scale projects towards capacity scaling, cost reduction, product quality improvement and supply-chain risk mitigation. Stakeholder Influence : Aligning/Negotiating on project ownership and hand-off points with various peer Supplier engineering groups (like New Product Introduction, Mfg Plant support, Tooling development). Influencing decisions with key partners in Global Ops (planning, sourcing, purchasing), Engineering (Design, Process, Quality) and Project Management Org. Required Skills and Experience: Proven ability to lead teams to solve complex technical and process problems Proven ability to hire highly capable staff, and grow and mentor staff Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentations to executives Demonstrated Project Management skills and ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders. Domain Knowledge expertise in the [Plastic, Metal] commodity. Demonstrable knowledge of a wide range of manufacturing processes and measurement techniques. Deep understanding of key input variables for quality, cost, schedule and capacity Outstanding analytical skills along with good judgment Proficiency in Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing techniques; certificati