What You Can Expect
The Director, NPI Execution, M&A Integration & Supplier Transfers leads strategic execution across new product introduction, acquired-business integration, and supplier/manufacturing transfer initiatives. This senior leader is accountable for ensuring products, processes, supply chains, and teams transition successfully from development, acquisition, or incumbent suppliers into stable, compliant, scalable operations.
The role requires strong business judgment, deep supply-base knowledge, technical fluency, and the ability to lead complex programs in a regulated medical-device environment. The Director partners closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, R&D, Finance, Manufacturing Engineering, and leadership to deliver continuity of supply, cost competitiveness, product quality, and growth objectives.
Reports to: Senior Director Procurement (Cost Center - M&A)
Direct reports: Integration Program leaders, supplier-transfer leaders, NPI project managers, supplier development personnel
How You'll Create Impact
1. NPI Execution and Operational Readiness
• Lead the end-to-end operational execution of New Product Introduction programs, from design-transfer planning through commercialization and sustained production.
• Establish integrated NPI execution plans & Ensure alignment between product development timelines and operational deliverables, including design transfer, process characterization, validation, supplier readiness, and product availability.
• Drive structured phase-gate governance with external suppliers , program reviews, escalation mechanisms, and executive decision-making for high-priority launches.
2. M&A Operations Integration
• Serve as the Procurement lead for M&A integrations.
• Executes the integration for acquired companies for mitigation of supply-chain risk, supplier dependencies, tier-II management, partners with SQ team for quality-system maturity.
• Define and lead integration roadmaps for acquired businesses, including supplier onboarding, quality-system alignment, tier-II management and smooth transition to Contract manufacturing partner(s)
• Lead Procurement part of integration governance, ensuring milestones, decisions, risks, and accountabilities are visible and managed at the appropriate leadership level.
3. Supplier Transfer and Supply-Base Optimization
• Lead complex supplier-transfer programs, including strategic sourcing transitions, supplier exits, dual-source strategies, vertical-integration initiatives, and manufacturing footprint changes.
• Develop transfer strategies that balance continuity of supply, quality, technical feasibility, regulatory requirements, cost, capacity, and timing.
• Ensure supplier transfers are executed in accordance with applicable quality-system requirements, change-control processes, validation requirements, and regulatory commitments.
• Direct supplier selection, qualification, technical transfer, process validation, first-article activities, production ramp-up, and supplier performance monitoring.
4. People Leadership and Organizational Capability
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of program, technical, supply-chain, and supplier-management professionals.
• Set clear goals, priorities, performance expectations, and development plans for direct reports.
• Build succession capability and strengthen organizational depth in NPI execution, technical operations, supplier transfer, and integration management.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration among teams with potentially competing objectives, timelines, and priorities.
What Makes You Stand Out
Leadership
• Builds high-performing teams and develops future leaders.
• Establishes clarity, accountability, and disciplined execution
• Leads through ambiguity, organizational change, and competing business priorities.
Business Acumen
• Connects technical and operational decisions to financial, customer, and enterprise outcomes.
• Evaluates strategic tradeoffs with an enterprise-wide perspective.
• Identifies opportunities for value creation, risk reduction, and sustainable growth.
Technical and Procurement Expertise
• Understands manufacturing processes, product industrialization, supplier capabilities, process controls, validation, and quality-system expectations.
• Demonstrates strong command of supply-base dynamics, supplier economics, sourcing strategy, and operational risk.
• Can challenge technical assumptions constructively and facilitate fact-based decisions.
Program Execution
• Drives complex initiatives from strategy through implementation and stabilization.
• Uses effective governance, metrics, risk management, and escalation practices.
• Maintains focus on customer service, quality, compliance, delivery, and financial results.
Influence and Collaboration
• Builds credibility with senior leaders, technical experts, plant leadership, suppliers, and all other stakeholders.
• Resolves conflict constructively and aligns diverse stakeholders behind common objectives.
• Communicates complex issues in a concise, actionable manner.
Your Background
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business, or a related technical discipline.
• Approximately 20 years of progressive experience in medical devices, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, or another highly regulated industry.
• Hands on experience & leadership experience in one or more of the following areas:
• New Product Introduction and product industrialization
• Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Management
• Supplier Transfers or Manufacturing Transfers
• Mergers, Acquisitions, and Business Integration
• Supply Chain, Procurement, or Operations Program Management
• Proven people-management experience, including leading managers and technical professionals in a matrixed global environment.
• Strong knowledge of supplier qualification, supplier development, capacity planning, quality agreements, process validation, and manufacturing transfer principles.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and manage supply-base risk, including sole-source exposure, capacity constraints, supplier quality issues, and business-continuity risks.
• Strong financial acumen, including business-case development, cost analysis, budget ownership, and value-capture management.
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and influencing skills.
Preferred Qualifications
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting medical-device product launches and design-transfer activities.
• Experience integrating acquired companies, product portfolios, manufacturing sites, or supplier networks.
• Familiarity with regulated quality systems and supplier-control expectations.
• Experience with lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, operational excellence, or structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Experience leading global suppliers and geographically distributed teams.
• Professional certifications in program management, supply chain, quality, or lean methodologies are desirable.
Expected Compensation Data
$166,500.00 - $208,300.00
