Site Procurement Project Lead

This role is responsible for leveraging expertise in Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, Purchasing and Quality to plan, design, and optimize outsourced manufacturing. The role identifies, recommends, and implements tactics to ensure minimum risk and maximum scale in support of the company’s strategic growth plan. This is an onsite position in Largo, FL.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops long-term improvement strategies with suppliers.
• Validates and collaborates with suppliers on proposals for improvement, supports investment cases and manages implementation.
• Focuses on driving supplier improvements in production through automation and other techniques.
• Develops and drives a beneficial partnership model with suppliers based on continuous improvement methodologies that yield increased quality, cost, and service improvements.
• Assesses supply chain risks, develops risk mitigation strategies and identifies new suppliers as required by ongoing and future business needs.
• Program management of supplier’s change notifications, including but not limited to manufacturing transfers.
• Serves as key operations liaison for the selection/qualification of new suppliers.
• Develops scorecards and leads ongoing supplier performance reviews.
• Collaborates with Design and Quality Engineering functions to investigate and resolve quality or compliance issues at suppliers.
• Reviews and approves supplier documentation such as Standard Operating Procedures, Critical to Quality characteristics and Control Plans, and Work Instructions.
• Key stakeholder in early supplier involvement efforts, Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), and is the key liaison between design engineering and the contract manufacturing supply chain.
• Develops and maintains a technology and capacity roadmap that aligns with the company’s New Product Development timeline and future revenue growth
• Provides and solicits input from internal and external stakeholders for design, manufacturing, material specifications, and manufacturing procedures to ensure that the resulting products can be adequately manufactured and tested.
• Develops, writes, and controls detailed work instructions.
• Ensures all parties understand the direction, and status of all meetings, projects, and development.
• Utilizes metrics, dashboards, and standard reports to communicate status updates.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in engineering
• 5+ years in medical device supplier management.

Other Attributes:

• Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes, Process Excellence, and supplier development tools (APQP, PPAP, FMEA, SPC, MSA).
• Skills: Proven program management, analytical thinking, and cross-functional collaboration. Effective communicator with experience delivering technical reports and presentations.
• Tools & Reporting: Uses metrics, dashboards, and reports for status updates.
• Work Environment: Willing to travel up to 40% and provide hands-on supplier support.
• Compliance: Proficient in QMS standards and global regulatory requirements; understands role in maintaining quality and validation integrity.

Up to 40% travel required

This position is not eligible for employer based sponsorship.

Benefits:

CONMED offers a wide array of benefits to fit your unique needs. Visit our Benefits Page for more information.

• Competitive compensation
• Excellent healthcare including medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage
• Short & long term disability plus life insurance -- cost paid fully by CONMED
• Retirement Savings Plan (401K) -- CONMED matches your contributions dollar for dollar, with the potential for up to 7% per pay period
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan -- allows stock purchases at discounted price
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate level courses

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CONMED is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic. Protected veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. The Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Poster reaffirms this commitment.

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