Director of Purchasing

IntePros Is currently looking for a Purchasing Director to join one of our growing Medical Device/Manufacturing clients in Audubon, PA. The Purchasing Director will be responsible for establishing, maintaining, and scaling a sustainable strategy for direct and indirect purchasing. This person will develop systems and oversee the processes that their direct reports will implement. They will lead strategic vendor selection, sourcing awards, contract and agreement negotiations, pricing, and discussions related to resolving any significant delivery issue to purchase order due dates or backorders. Supports a culture of leading by example, empowered and decentralized team, strong desire to win, an “operations” culture, and accountability to targeted results.

Purchasing Director Responsibilities:

Ensure the quality of products received in are compliant per company SOPs, to remain in compliance with FDA CFR 21 and ISO 13485. Have proactive trending and monitoring of vendors such that trends are corrected well before they are an event that would conflict with internal Quality requirements.

• Focus on building partnerships with the medical device supply base that foundationally promotes shared risk taking and can sustainably operate the clients way. Design systems and oversee processes that result in supply continuity and can scale at a rate of 10-15% CAGR, delivers implants at 98% OTIF and instruments 90% OTIF.
• Manage cost structure such that costs remain flat year over year, and percent of spend relative to revenue within each month remains stable through cost control means. Leverages inventory and all departments who interface with it to release cash whenever possible, while not disrupting operational stability of manufacturing. In terms of pent-up revenue, global backorders should average less than 0.1% of revenue. As new products launch, accountable to ensure relative percent of spend will not change due to margin erosion. Assess the cost of order quantities relative to sales and associated carrying costs with the inventory team.
• Drives quantitative, deliberate sourcing decisions and vendor capacity allocation as it relates to E2E IBP. Ensures that launches are possible within 4 months from PO and there is never a choice to be made between launch and maintenance demand. This candidate will at all times have a strong understanding of what is attainable from the supply base relative to unconstrained demand and shape, and continually re-shape, the supply base to match where the business is today and where it is going. Supply base maintains client expectations of lead-time, lot sizes, quality, and monthly replenishment PO cadence.
• Establishes Integrated Business Planning (IBP) methodologies cross functionally to ensure ownership is properly placed within the organization and approaches work with confidence—both in good times and bad. Creates an IBP that they own and are ultimately responsible for attaining at a part-quantity-date-source level. Can demonstrate through the IBP the understanding of and bridge between departments.
• Has a continuous improvement mindset, where the present is accepted and drives us toward tomorrow. Systems created demonstrate a proactive resolution of supply risk, system integrity, process rigor, simplicity of focus and execution, and people care management.
• Adheres to the letter and spirit of the company Code of Conduct, the AdvaMed Code, MedTech Code, and all other company policies. Ensures Compliance with applicable governmental laws, rules, and regulations, both in the United States and internationally, by completing introductory and annual training and maintaining knowledge of compliance as it applies to your role
• Represents the company in a professional manner and upholds the highest standards of ethical business practices and socially responsible conduct in all interactions with other employees, customers, suppliers, and other third parties
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Purchasing Director Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree required, preferably in supply chain, business, or similar technical field.
• 10 years’ supply chain experience required; preferably in a medical device or healthcare manufacturing environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Advanced critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time as required
• MRP/ERP experience in preferably a multi-plant environment.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytic skills with the ability to formulate conclusion through reporting
• Excellent contract negotiation skills, as well as a strong understanding of cost savings and inventory management strategies
• Ability to lead without direct authority in a collaborative environment
• Ability to brief executives and have excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Must be detail oriented and team player capable of working in a deadline dictated environment
• Able to handle multiple, complex projects with varying deadlines and an ability to adapt quickly to changing demands/needs
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite- Strong in Excel and other analytic reporting tools

Physical Demands:

The physical demands listed here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Required to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Required to possess specific visons abilities, including: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and capacity to adjust focus

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