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Company Description

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.

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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.

Job Description

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

Qualifications

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

Additional Information

Intuitive ist ein Arbeitgeber, der gleiche und gerechte Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten bietet. Wir bieten allen qualifizierten Bewerbern und Mitarbeitern gleiche Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten, unabhängig von ethnischer Herkunft, Geschlecht, Schwangerschaft, sexueller Orientierung, Geschlechtsidentität, nationaler Herkunft, Hautfarbe, Alter, Religion, geschütztem Veteranenstatus, Behindertenstatus, genetischen Informationen oder einem anderen Status, der nach den geltenden Gesetzen auf Bundes-, Landes- oder lokaler Ebene geschützt ist, und verbieten jegliche Form von Diskriminierung und Belästigung.

Gemäß den „Fair Chance“-Gesetzen berücksichtigen wir qualifizierte Bewerber, die verhaftet wurden oder Vorstrafen haben, für offene Stellen.