Supply Chain Lead, Surgery Broad Market
On-site · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Job Summary
Lead end-to-end supply strategy and execution for the Surgery broad market across China. Drive supply reliability, cost-to-serve optimization and launch readiness for procedure-driven surgical products. Partner with China commercial, Manufacturing, Quality & Regulatory, Procurement, Planning, and Global Supply Chain teams to ensure product availability, allocation during constraints, and operational excellence while meeting regulatory and patient-safety requirements. Major duties include: coordinating IBP execution, managing inventory and working capital, driving launch readiness, and optimizing distributor performance; implement process improvements and digital initiatives to improve planning cadence, transparency and decision-making for IBP maturity.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Finance or related field; MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred.
- Minimum 7+ years of related experience.
- Minimum 7+ years of progressive supply chain experience; experience in MedTech/medical devices, life sciences, or other regulated, procedure-driven industries required.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-province planning and distribution across China, including working with hospital procurement, distributors and consignment models.
- Proven track record leading S&OP / IBP processes, launch readiness and allocation during constrained supply situations.
- Strong understanding of China import/export considerations, lot traceability, recalls and quality-driven supply processes.
- Experience with planning and ERP systems (e.g., SAP ECC/S4 and IBP, Kinaxis, Oracle or equivalent) and analytics/visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).
- Fluent in Mandarin and English (business proficiency).
- Travel: Up to 25% domestic travel (hospital and distributor sites, cross-country meetings).
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