Senior Procurement Engineer - Point of Care

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The Senior Procurement Engineer for Point of Care leads Procurement Engineering engagement across new instrument, assay, consumable, hardware, and assembly development. This role owns the NPD sourcing and supplier-integration framework from early concept through product introduction, ensuring that sourcing decisions support technical performance, quality, cost targets, regulatory expectations, launch readiness, and long-term supply continuity.
As a senior procurement partner to R&D and the broader cross-functional organization, the role establishes sourcing matrices, reduces part and assembly risk, aligns supplier and technology roadmaps, and drives early supplier involvement, Design for X (DfX), cost and value engineering, and commercialization readiness. The role also leads supplier proposal and contract reviews for open R&D projects and maintains the overall Procurement Engineering risk profile for POC hardware and consumable designs.
Key Responsibilities
• NPD sourcing leadership - Own Procurement Engineering activities for NPD projects, including part and assembly development, sourcing strategy, sourcing-matrix definition, supplier selection, open-source resolution, and launch-readiness planning.
• Portfolio and risk management - Manage the overall Procurement Engineering risk profile across instrument, hardware, assay, and consumable designs. Identify high-risk and high-complexity parts and assemblies; establish mitigation plans; and drive timely escalation and closure.
• Early supplier involvement and DfX - Coordinate early supplier involvement, design-for-manufacturability, and broader DfX inputs to R&D from potential suppliers and manufacturing partners. Lead structured supplier sessions addressing design challenges, technical feasibility, innovation potential, manufacturability, quality, cost, and supply continuity.
• Strategic sourcing matrices - Develop project sourcing matrices that define tiered supply options based on risk. Establish longer-term sourcing strategies, including multisource approaches, alternate-part or alternate-design activity, safety-stock recommendations, and end-of-life/last-time-buy planning support.
• Supplier and technology roadmaps - Review part, material, manufacturing, and technology roadmaps with suppliers, Commodity Management, NPD Strategic Sourcing, and global contract manufacturers. Provide category and market intelligence to R&D and advise on technology direction, obsolescence exposure, and emerging supply risks.
• Cost Value Engineering support - Assess design cost against total product cost and standard product cost targets. Develop and manage Cost Value Engineering and should-cost initiatives, define action plans for cost gaps, and support total-cost-of-ownership and cost-benefit evaluations. Support clean-sheeting exercises.
• Contracts and commercial proposals - Review supplier proposals, statements of work, and contractual documents on behalf of Procurement. Lead or support negotiation of technical and commercial terms with key suppliers across active R&D projects, in partnership with Strategic Procurement, Legal, Finance, Quality, and R&D.
• NPD governance and project execution - Track NPD Procurement Engineering and supply-chain milestones, project roadmaps, current BOM configurations, project sourcing gaps, target-cost escalations, and risk-reduction actions. Provide clear status, decisions, and escalations within NPD core teams.
• ASL and supplier readiness - Lead greenfield and brownfield Approved Supplier List strategy for POC R&D and NPI. Maintain project-level visibility to new supplier needs and ASL modifications, and ensure supply-base readiness for product introduction.
• Global CM and supply-base alignment - Serve as the Procurement Engineering liaison with global contract manufacturers regarding strategic roadmaps, supplier-pyramid alignment, pooling opportunities, sourcing leverage, technology capabilities, and risk.
• Development purchasing and capital equipment - Support the sourcing and purchasing of development components, materials, test fixtures, tooling, automation, and production equipment. Contribute to specifications, bidder definition, document collection, RFQs/RFPs, and capital-equipment procurement for NPD and factory-readiness needs.
• Site indirect purchasing leadership - Provide indirect purchasing leadership for POC R&D sites, including purchase-order review and approval responsibilities within assigned authority levels.
• M&A and partnering support - Provide Procurement Engineering assessment for mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, licensing arrangements, and external innovation opportunities, including supply-base, cost, technology, quality, contractual, and continuity considerations.
• Leadership and collaboration - Build strong working relationships across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Logistics, Finance, Legal, Strategic Procurement, Commodity Management, Supply Chain Management as well as suppliers.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of successful experience in Procurement Engineering, product development, strategic sourcing, supplier engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a closely related field, including significant experience supporting complex new product development.
• Knowledge of FDA, ISO, and applicable IVD regulatory requirements, with work experience supporting FDA-regulated Class II and/or Class III medical devices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead sourcing, supplier selection, risk reduction, and commercialization activities for complex electromechanical products, consumables, assays, parts, and assemblies.
• Experience reviewing supplier proposals, statements of work, and commercial agreements and negotiating with strategic or development suppliers.
• Strong scientific and engineering aptitude, with the ability to translate technical requirements, design trade-offs, and supplier capabilities into procurement and business decisions.
• Ability to manage multiple instrument and assay projects concurrently, prioritize across competing demands, and communicate decisions and escalations clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require.
Preferred Qualifications
• Advanced degree such as an M.S., M.Eng., or MBA.
• Experience influencing a distributed, multinational team.
• Prior experience with early supplier involvement, DfX/DFM, cost and value engineering, should-cost analysis, BOM cost management, total cost of ownership, and supplier technology roadmaps.
• Experience with contract manufacturers, supplier-pyramid strategy, supply-base pooling, ASL governance, and the transition of designs from development into regulated production.
• Understanding of hospital or clinical laboratory operational principles and Point of Care workflows.
• Experience supporting procurement due diligence for M&A, partnering, licensing, or external innovation opportunities.
Leadership Competencies
• Strategic orientation: Connects product and technology roadmaps with category strategy, supplier capability, and the long-term needs of the POC business.
• Risk-based decision making: Balances innovation, quality, supply continuity, regulatory requirements, cost, and schedule using fact-based and transparent decision criteria.
• Cross-functional influence: Builds alignment across technical, operational, commercial, and quality stakeholders without relying solely on direct authority.
• Supplier leadership: Establishes clear expectations, challenges suppliers constructively, and creates productive engagement focused on technical outcomes and sustainable value.
• Execution discipline: Converts complex portfolios into defined actions, owners, milestones, decisions, and escalations.
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Skills
Procurement, Negotiation, Risk Management, Sourcing, Supply Chain Management, Due Diligence