Director Supply Chain, Network Planning

Job Description:

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Supply Chain team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease and critical care needs. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.

The Director Supply Chain, Network Planning (SME3) will serve as a Planning lead to support the Network’s planning process. The incumbent will play a critical role in enabling the Implant Delivery Network to effectively scale, meeting Network and business growth aspirations over the strategic horizon.

In support of the Implant Delivery System Network, the incumbent will work strategically across businesses, consolidating requirements, driving and continuously improving the Network’s planning process, and making recommendations and creating the measures to balance the global capacity for existing, new, and transferred products and processes. The person in this role will support the Strategy and PMO functions to develop strategic business plans by driving creating alignment and scenario planning within and across Networks.

In addition, this individual will play a key role in tactical planning and execution, ensuring success of technology transfers across the Network, between different manufacturing networks, capacity leveling and alignment, and healthy levels of critical sub-assemblies. The role will further partner to optimize Network design decisions for business continuity and total cost to serve where possible.

You will make an impact by:

• Drive alignment on key inputs related to Network load balancing e.g. transfer planning, regulatory pathways, supply chain cost, business continuity considerations, etc.

• Lead key discussions during the business planning cycle (Strat Plan & AOP), ensuring alignment within and across networks, consolidating inputs from across businesses, manufacturing networks and global sourcing and logistics, to support effective short- and long-range network planning.

• Support Network Strategy, GSC Strategy, and GSC PMO teams, in developing Network level strategic plans, analysis, planning, and execution of technology transfer between sites.

• Develop scenarios to support decision making for Implant Network and GSC.

• Support successful execution of transfers by facilitating effective phase-in and phase-out discussions. This includes, ensuring alignment on timelines, inventory planning, procurement planning, etc.

• Develop and guide the implementation and governance of processes aimed at optimizing inventory levels & capacity allocations, to support critical sub-assemblies availability across the Network.

• Support ad-hoc impact analysis of key transfer events to drive timely and effective decision making, including financial considerations such as cost, inventory, E&O, etc.

• Support the development of cost-to-serve models to optimize Network design decisions.

• Identify and develop key management visualizations & reports to support effective decision making.

• Manage the Network Planning Model across Edwards Global Supply Chain (GSC) in close collaboration with other network leads. This includes process, organizational design guidelines, and governance.

What you’ll need (Required):

• Bachelors Degree in a related field and 12 years of previous supply chain experience OR

• Masters Degree in a related field and 10 years of previous supply chain experience

What else we look for:

• Proven successful project management skills, data visualization and presentation skills.

• Proven expertise in MS Office Suite

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and/or APICS CPIM

• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills

• Excellent documentation, communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills

• Extensive knowledge of own area within the organization while contributing to the development of new concepts, techniques, and standards

• Extensive understanding of Edwards policies, procedures, and guidelines relevant to local and/or global supply chain including FDA and ISO laws and regulations

• Ability to transfer essential knowledge and mentor other team members on specialized skills

• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and be self-sufficient

• Ability to work across and lead change in matrix management environment

• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California, the base pay range for this position is $138,000 to $195,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

COVID Vaccination Requirement

Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.