The Opportunity

The Director Supply Chain provides vision, strategy, leadership, and direction for Heart Failure supply chain operations to achieve and maintain the highest standards of quality, customer satisfaction, delivery, service, manufacturing capability to accomplish business, and division and corporate goals at competitive costs. Actively engages and drives the Integrated Business Process (IBP) on behalf of the business unit to ensure proper sales and operations planning. Create and meet short- and long-term business goals to support our customer and business requirements through: Direct or indirect management of material supply chain functions. Lead and support key strategic and tactical initiatives to optimize performance of Supply Chain. What You’ll Work On • Lead the Supply Chain for the HF Division and actively drive our Integrated Business Planning process for the business unit • Manage key stakeholders in Finance, Quality, Supply Chain and Operations to insure achievement of business unit operations goals • Work with peers in R&D, Quality, and Regulatory to support new product introduction, on-market and LRP strategies. • Provide vision, definition, and implementation of long-range material management, manufacturing and business improvement initiatives. • Develop and track goals and objectives to assure annual improvements in operational performance, cost, product quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction. • Establish effective measurement systems for performance to assure meeting quality, customer and cost expectations. • Responsible for planning, budgeting and spending authorization. • Develop processes, define system requirements ,and assume responsibility for the system integration to support multi-manufacturing plant supply chain operations • Establish effective life cycle management programs for Heart Failure products. • Determine system requirements and technologies needed to maintain and improve performance. • Enforce compliance of personnel with administrative policies, procedures, safety rules, and governmental regulations. • Serve as senior level representative on cross-organizational, cross-plant, cross-division and corporate materials and operations initiatives. • Serve as supply chain interface on new product transition to manufacturing. • Direct investigations into causes of customer complaints related to supply chain operations. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree (± 16 years) in Engineering, Finance, Science or Business (or related field) Minimum 7 + years Senior leadership experience in Supply Chain management Experience working in medical devices or other highly regulated products Multi-site leadership experience :