Job Description
SENIOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER - SURGICAL ROBOTICS
Who We Are
We are a commercial, agile, successful and hungrily ambitious fast growing start up in SF Bay, developing surgical robotics to help make the lives of patients safer and the experience of surgeons better.
Our FDA & CE marked solution help hsopital systems in many ways - we prevent cancelled operations. We help reduce the wear and tear on surgeons' bodies keeping them practising so they can save lives. We help make operations shorter, better, and we help bring relief to patients in distress.
Working in this high energy passionate team based in San Francisco Bay, you could join us as our Senior Supply Chain Manager and be part of a team determined to ensure no patient ever has to wait for an operation because our production stops due to supply chain reasons. It's a major issue -potentially cascading into cancelled installs, idle capital equipment, and disrupted patient care.
The surgeons rely on you and we rely on you to be the orchestrator ensuring seamless production of the surgical robot they work with daily.
The Role
The Senior Supply Chain Manager ensures every certified component, subsystem and part arrives exactly right,— on time, validated, and traceable — because one missing or imperfect part can ground a robot and delay care. These are precision robotic systems designed to extend the surgeons’ capabilities and dexterity. You will be dealing with capital equiment, electronics, systems and disposables, part assemblies and sub assemblies. You must have experience in medical manufacturing and with these components.
This role is critical -It protects quality under fire, continuity under growth, and patient care under relentless operational demand. As deployment scales, the pressure multiplies. More assets in the field that must be supported, serviced, and replenished without interruption. The supply chain scales with precision, or fractures under its own success.
The Person
Reporting to the VP Operations , this position balances continous improvement and NPI. There is lots of room for growth in this fast expanding company.
You will identify, neogtiate and establishing relationships with new suppliers and manufacturers to accelerate progress and mitigate risks associated with new product or feature introductions. We have suppliers worldwide and ship across the US and Europe.
You'll be part of a team and also work closely with Quality, Operations, Finance, and Suppliers at the center of our manufacturing and field service organizations, ensuring the consistent availability of high quality inventory.
You are a key stakeholder in the architecture and introduction of new business systems supporting purchasing, material management, and logistics.
You'll balance activity between procurement and warehousing/logistics, addressing in your typical unruffled manner, a multitude of priorities;
- Demand Planning, commercial and service forecasts, obsolescence and safety stock countermeasures
- Optimizing inventory , supporting Operations with supplier issue resolution or nonconformances
- Coordinating outbound deliveries in support of commercial placements
- Sourcing, negotiating with and managing suppliers
You don't do micro-management. You're pretty autonomous and wear multiple hats in this startup environment; flexibility and adaptability are your norm.
Other skillsets include:
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word) including light automation and process improvements
- 5+ years in supply chain management minimum
- NPI and Sustaining Experience
- FDA & CE supply chain experience essential
- Management of contract manufacturers a plus
- Strong organization skills with attention to detail
- Clear communication and ability to build relationships (internal and external)
- Prior ERP/MRP selection or implementation experience strongly preferred
Compensation, Benefits & Other Details
- 25 Days of Paid Vacation & 10 Paid Holidays
- 401k with matching
- Competitive Vision, Dental, and Health benefits
- Regular national and international travel required
If this sounds like your 2026 challnege - let's talk !