Job Description

Job Title

Global ISC Engineering Leader

Job title: Global ISC Engineering Leader

Seniority: Senior Director

Based in Best

As the Global ISC Engineering Leader you are responsible for driving global end-to-end Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) engineering leadership across product lifecycles and supply chain transformation initiatives. This role partners closely with R&D and cross-functional ISC teams to ensure effective execution across PDLM, NPI, MLD, LCM, and sustaining activities.

The role will lead cross-functional decision-making by bringing together Procurement Engineering, Supplier Quality Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering to deliver robust, scalable, and resilient supply chain solutions. The ISC Engineering Leader will also champion data hygiene in PDLM and LCM processes, support OCCB/ECCB change management in close collaboration with Manufacturing Engineering (ME), and act as a change leader in supply chain engineering and network setup to build agility and active resilience across the network.

Your role:

1. Cross-functional ISC Engineering Leadership

• Lead ISC engineering activities across PDLM, NPI, MLD, LCM, and sustaining projects.

• Partners closely with Advanced Development to ensure alignment between business strategy, product portfolio, and sourcing strategies, fostering synergy across the organization.

• Partner with R&D to ensure supply chain readiness and manufacturability are embedded early in product and lifecycle decisions.

• Serve as the key ISC engineering interface between development and operations to enable smooth industrialization and lifecycle execution.

2. End-to-End Decision Making

• Bring together end-to-end ISC stakeholders, including Procurement Engineering, Supplier Quality Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering, to drive timely and fact-based decisions for projects.

• Ensure alignment across functions on technical, operational, supplier, and network-related trade-offs.

• Facilitate issue resolution and decision governance to support project milestones and business continuity.

3. Product Lifecycle and Sustaining Support

• Provide leadership for ISC engineering deliverables across new product introduction, lifecycle changes, sustaining engineering, and product discontinuation/transition activities.

• Ensure that ISC considerations are integrated into design changes, supply continuity plans, and cost/productivity initiatives.

• Support robust change implementation across the installed base and manufacturing network.

• Drive data hygiene and data quality improvements in PDLM and LCM-related systems and processes.

5. Change Management and Engineering Governance

• Work closely with ME on OCCB/ECCB changes to ensure effective assessment, coordination, and implementation of engineering changes.

• Drive cross-functional impact assessments for design and process changes, with clear ownership and execution tracking.

• Ensure engineering changes are translated into supply chain, supplier, and manufacturing actions without disruption to quality, cost, or delivery.

6. Supply Chain Engineering and Network Setup

• Serves as a thought leader on the Innovation Portfolio, influencing innovation strategy and decisions, and fostering strong partnerships with Innovation and Engineering, Product Marketing, and ISC stakeholders.

• Assesses and formulates a long-term vision and strategy to maximize business value, aligning with current and future customer needs, and inspires cross-organizational innovation in supply chain engineering and project network setup.

• Define and enable supply chain network strategies that improve resilience, flexibility, and agility.

• Build active resilience into the network by identifying risks early, strengthening alternative sourcing/manufacturing scenarios, and enabling continuity through robust engineering and supply chain design.

• Support capacity, footprint, and industrialization decisions that align with business growth and operational strategy.

7. Stakeholder management

• R&D / Product Development, Procurement Engineering, Supplier Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations / ISC Leadership, Quality and Regulatory teams, Program / Project Management

You're the right fit if you have:

• Master’s degree in industrial engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

• Minimum 15 years of leadership experience in Supply Chain Management, Engineering Management, Operations, Research & Development in low volume high tech medical device environment

• Extensive knowledge in IGTS product architecture and roadmap

• Minimum 5 years of people Leadership: experience in directly managing teams

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in supply chain engineering, industrial engineering, or product industrialization.

• Strong understanding of PDLM, NPI, LCM, sustaining, and engineering change processes

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders across functions and levels.

• Experience working closely with R&D and operations in a matrix organization.

• Strong knowledge of IGTS supply chain network setup, resilience, and agility principles.

• Experience in driving data quality, process discipline, and engineering governance.

• Strong problem-solving, communication, and change leadership skills

• Project Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Risk Management

• Lean Methodologies, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence

Compensation & benefits
In compliance with the EU Pay Transparency Directive, details regarding the compensation framework and salary range for this executive leadership position will be automatically provided to all candidates selected for the initial screening phase prior to their first business interview.

How we work together
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