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Procurement Engineer - EI

  • Foster City (San Mateo County)
  • Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering

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Job Title

Procurement Engineer - EI

Job Description

This role will be based in Pleasanton, California in the Rosewood Commons

In this role you have opportunity to

·  Do you have drive to work in a multidisciplinary team of highly skilled professionals that source, create and offer world-class Healthcare informatics propositions?
·  Do you like working in an environment focused on enabling the best solutions to support patients, caregivers and customers in living a healthier life?
·  Do you like working with many different stakeholders across the globe, in a variety of time zones and businesses?
·  Do like driving value by directly supporting the development and introduction of digitally enabled critical products as a procurement professional?

This is a unique opportunity for you to further grow your career in a vibrant environment within our Healthcare Informatics Business Group. As the Procurement Engineering Business Partner you are a key member of the Enterprise Informatics business unit supporting the creation, business modeling and cost management of digital propositions. During the creation of new offering you will work closely with Business Development, the Architects, R&D project teams, Operations and product managers. You take full ownership by showing your commitment as the procurement representative within the cross functional project team as the single point of contact. You ensure early involvement making clear the demand and success factors for suppliers, commodity management and other stakeholders in order to beat competition.

You will secure meeting the right procurement processes, purchasing controls and take part in the strategic supply base management and idea2market processes. Moreover, you will be a business partner working with a world class procurement function.

Your responsibilities

Support the build and execution of the business procurement strategy:

·  Co-owning the procurement strategy on business unit level (Enterprise Informatics)
·  Execute the related strategic BU activities by driving and deploying Make or Buy decisions, as well as cost modelling
·  Secure close alignment with the business unit leader, business development leader, Operations, procurement leadership, DevOPS and other stakeholders
·  Working closely with commodity management to create a world class value chain for the business by providing input regarding the supply base characteristics based on business requirements;
·  Drive the Supplier Allocation Process together with the Commodity Teams, including project related contract negotiations;

Support the product / service roadmap

·  Work closely with product marketing to ensure early involvement
·  Support the service portfolio and install base roadmap

Support new product development projects:

·  Represent procurement within NPI/ NSI projects towards suppliers ensuring early involvement and managing the suppliers' contribution throughout the project;
·  Drive concept savings in service innovation
·  Support the Request for Information/ Proposal/ Quotation (RFx) process;
·  Execute and support the in/outsourcing process (e.g. knowledge transfer, supplier ramp- up);

Manage service/ digital proposition cost:

·  Manage cost drivers and data sources to improve the design decision making
·  Initiate and drive product cost management and identify opportunities through target costing by making use of world class tools such as: Design for eXellence (DfX), Should cost analysis, etc.
·  Drive procurement activities in Life Cycle Management of existing products and systems;

Manage supplier related product quality:

·  Work with the Supplier Quality manager in new supplier component release process, including regulatory compliance and sustainability aspects;

Manage Bill of Material cost and savings reporting:

·  Lead, consolidate & manage the reporting of savings for the BU;
·  Drive compliant licensing implementation and reporting within the business systems;

You are a part of
You will be part of the Procurement Engineering team for the Business Group Healthcare Informatics directly reporting to the Procurement Engineering Business Partner of the unit. The unit is responsible for developing, building and deployment of multiple healthcare IT related offerings. End customers are Hospitals, clinics, specialists, doctors, providers and communities across the health continuum dealing with a wide variety of chronic and non-chronic health situations.

We welcome you to a challenging, innovative environment with great opportunities for you to further grow and explore. You will work with a world class procurement organization and entrepreneurial business aside top talent, eagerly looking to provide what is best for our customers. Further, you will work with a global team in a rapidly developing industry dealing with life critical issues impacting the world at large.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

·  University degree in a relevant technical discipline.
·  Professional with a 2+ years proven track
·  Some experience in business (cost) modeling for IT related offerings (Should Costing, NPV, TCO).
·  Good understanding in New Product Introduction Process and experience in initiating and driving cost optimization projects
·  A team player who is both proactive and cooperative; easily gains trust and support of peers; encourages collaboration and challenges constructively
·  Can think strategically and is at the same time hands-on. Delivers results.
·  Is able to read and understand engineering documentation and OEM SW licensing models in order to challenge value propositions on cost and quality.
·  Experience in international and multidisciplinary project teams is preferred
·  Prepared to travel up to 10% of the time and has good negotiation skills.
·  Has excellent written and verbal communication skills

In this role we offer you
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