New Product Development Supplier Engineer
About the Role: We are looking for a New Product Development (NPD) Supplier Engineer to join our NPD Supplier Engineering Team. In this role, you will ensure that Gore Medical receives maximum value from supplier engagements to achieve the business and project outcomes needed to advance Gore Medical supply chain objectives, strategies, and commitments. As an NPD Supplier Engineer, you will commit to supporting the highest priority work that flows to the NPD Supplier Engineering Team which may include but is not limited to New Product Development project(s), supply chain or procurement projects and initiatives, and additional commercial support to the Commercial Supplier Engineering Team.
This position will be located at a facility in Phoenix or Flagstaff, Arizona, with the possibility of a hybrid remote work arrangement, depending upon the responsibilities of the role and business needs.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain supplier relationship(s) for New Product Development (NPD) and supply chain projects
- Manage supplier owned technical, business, and project deliverables in alignment with project plans and established agreements with supplier
- Lead Gore project teams through procurement best practices and standard work needed to achieve successful project outcomes
- Negotiate, influence, escalate, and drive the internal and external alignment needed to achieve successful project outcomes
- Apply appropriate data analysis, scenario planning, and decision-making methodology to inform risk-based decisions and to resolve areas of tension
- Ensure clear input to project reviews, areas of project risk, and focus areas needed to ensure project plans stay on track and in alignment with project commitments and objectives
- Partner with supplier(s) to execute supplier capability and validation work needed to ensure high quality parts that meet product manufacturing and supply chain requirements
- Ensure effective communication of project progress to Executive Leadership at both the supplier and Gore
- Demonstrate effective and efficient project execution and collaboration by building strong partnerships with project core team, extended team, and required functions
- Navigate ambiguity and identify opportunities to establish supplier engineering best practices and improve upon existing processes
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 3-5 years engineering experience in Medical Device Industry or minimum 5 years general engineering experience
- Demonstrated ability to partner and collaborate with Suppliers or External Customers
- Demonstrated ability to provide medical device product quality engineering or design assurance engineering
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects effectively and efficiently
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and efficiently using both verbal and written forms of communication
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate, influence and drive alignment on expectations and responsibilities
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to changes based on team priorities and project priorities
- Demonstrated ability to make data driven and risk-based decisions using critical thinking, data, and scenario planning/decision making tools
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple items and manage prioritization of work and allocation of time appropriately
- Ability to travel 10% based on project needs
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience supporting New Product Development projects in the Medical Device Industry
- Demonstrated ability to effectively partner externally or with suppliers
- Demonstrated ability to clearly establish expectations, fairly address performance issues, and hold suppliers accountable
Hybrid Working Arrangements are permitted for Associates in the continental United States (US) and Canada, with appropriate approval and compliance with Gore’s hybrid working policies, from the country in which they are employed.
What We Offer: Our success is based on the capability and creativity of our Associates, and we are proud to offer a comprehensive and competitive total rewards program that supports your everyday and helps you build your tomorrow.
We provide benefits that offer choice and flexibility and promote overall well-being. And in keeping with our belief that every Associate should share in the collective success of the enterprise; we provide a distinctive Associate Stock Ownership Plan in each country as well as potential opportunities for “profit-sharing”. Learn more at gore.com/careers/benefits
We believe in the strength of a diverse and inclusive workplace. With diverse perspectives, ideas and experiences, we uncover new possibilities and make a greater impact in the world. We are proud of Associates for building on our rich history of innovation, upholding our values and supporting an inclusive work environment where we treat each other and our external partners with fairness, dignity and respect.
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Gore requires all applicants to be eligible to work within the U.S. Gore generally will not sponsor visas unless otherwise noted on the position description.
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