Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Supply Chain and Quality (GSC&Q) team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with structural heart disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations, engineering, and global demand planning teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while servicing patients in the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, 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.

You can make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. At the Edwards Lifesciences Draper, Utah manufacturing facility, our team creates the devices that transform patients’ lives. As part of our manufacturing plant that plans, purchases, assembles, and delivers, your attention to detail and commitment to continuous improvement will help us turn innovative ideas into reality. Your purpose-driven work will help leave lasting and positive impacts on patient lives.

The Senior Director will strategically oversee the supply chain team, ensuring efficient procurement of raw materials, sourcing non-inventory goods and services, and creating and executing the production plan to meet volume and mix requirements. Additionally, they will manage the warehousing of raw materials and work-in-progress and oversee the shipment of finished goods to distribution centers.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Partner with commercial leadership to define demand plan, manage supply strategies with GSC leadership and ensure alignment with executive leadership team. 

• Direct team members and demand/supply forecast activities that include product lines with high complexity while ensuring customer service levels meet corporate objectives within inventory guidelines with critical financial relevance that impact the organization.

• Set and lead the implementation of strategic processes that align with key business strategies.

• Ensure processes exist to execute the strategic plan for the site and GSC organization while meeting customer needs (e.g., achieving customer fill rates, supporting new product launches, maintaining line uptime, supporting make/buy decisions). 

• Plan and direct strategic activities (e.g., launch planning) including prioritizing and selecting appropriate projects with overall responsibility for meeting business objectives. Lead in identifying risk, developing complex mitigation strategies, defining best practices and alternative solutions, and resolving issues in collaboration with cross-functional and/or matrixed teams.

• Responsible for driving continuous improvements in the key indicators for supply chain optimization, including customer service, system adoption, schedule adherence, reduced obsolescence and reduced inventory, while meeting cost targets.

• Develop and lead the implementation of network-wide strategies to ensure business continuity (e.g., inventory targets). Identify, escalate, and develop plans to mitigate/eliminate risks, direct and communicate BU/GSC strategies which include collaborating with internal parties.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's Degree with 12 years of leadership experience in planning, purchasing, warehousing, and materials management in a highly regulated environment. 

• Demonstrated track record in people management. 

• Proven successful project and change management experience. 

• Transformation experience using Lean and Six Sigma tools.

What else we look for: 

• MBA, Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM), and/or Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM).

• Proficient in both Microsoft Office Suite and related systems including JDE, Advanced Planning Systems working with Demand Flow methodology.

• Proven expertise in warehouse and distribution technologies (e.g., RFID, WMS, Bar Coding).

• Expert understanding of planning concepts and requirements (e.g., CRP (Capacity Requirement Planning), MRP (Material Requirements Plan), Production Scheduling and Sequencing.

• Expert understanding of Sales, Inventory and Operating Planning (SIOP or S&OP).

• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making.

• Expert understanding of supply chain procedures while looking beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems.

• Expert understanding of related aspects of planning, purchasing, and logistics processes and/or systems.