Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain

Why Merit?

At Merit Medical, our mission is to create innovative medical devices that improve lives. Our goal is to hire and develop people who want to build something special through hard work, team effort, and commitment. Together, we are making a difference in the lives of patients around the world.

WORK SHIFT

DAY (United States of America)

SUMMARY OF DUTIES

The Vice President, Global Supply Chain provides enterprise leadership for the end-to-end global supply chain, including Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE), demand and supply planning, production and distribution planning, inventory management, procurement, sourcing, logistics, warehousing, and supply chain analytics. This executive develops and executes a global strategy that supports growth, customer service, operational resilience, profitability, and working capital performance across a complex, multi-site manufacturing and distribution network. The role is accountable for global inventory investment and health, including the proactive management of excess, slow-moving, scrap, and obsolete inventory. The Vice President partners with Commercial, Operations, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, Engineering, Information Technology, and business leaders to align demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and financial priorities, while building a high-performing global organization and driving standardization, digital transformation, and measurable productivity improvement.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS PERFORMED

• Develops and executes the global supply chain strategy, translating enterprise priorities into capabilities, investments, governance, and measurable outcomes.

• Leads global, multi-site teams; standardizes policies, processes, systems, and performance management; and provides supply chain leadership for strategic initiatives, integrations, and network changes.

• Owns global IBP/S&OP and S&OE processes, aligning demand, capacity, supply, inventory, and financial plans while managing near-term constraints and service risks.

• Establishes planning governance and uses analytics and scenario modeling to improve forecast accuracy, plan stability, schedule adherence, service, and responsiveness.

• Owns global inventory strategy, policies, targets, controls, and performance across raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods.

• Optimizes inventory and working capital while governing excess, aged, slow-moving, scrap, and obsolete stock; partners cross-functionally to address root causes, reduce write-offs, and proactively manage lifecycle and supply risks.

• Leads demand, supply, production, capacity, distribution, and inventory planning while optimizing the global manufacturing, supplier, logistics, and distribution network for service, cost, resilience, and scalability.

• Establishes supply chain risk and business continuity capabilities, leads responses to critical disruptions, and evaluates sourcing, capacity, inventory positioning, and network design alternatives.

• Provides strategic direction for global procurement, sourcing, supplier management, logistics, warehousing, and distribution to advance continuity, quality, cost, delivery, compliance, and risk diversification.

• Establishes supplier and logistics performance management and drives transportation, distribution, and warehousing strategies that improve service, visibility, compliance, and total delivered cost.

• Leads the global supply chain technology, data, and analytics strategy, including ERP, advanced planning, business intelligence, automation, and a common end-to-end data model.

• Partners with Information Technology on system roadmaps, implementation, governance, adoption, and value realization, using analytics and scenario planning to improve decisions and productivity.

• Owns the global supply chain operating plan, budget, productivity agenda, performance commitments, enterprise KPIs, and operating rhythms.

• Partners with Finance to quantify opportunities, assess tradeoffs, validate benefits, and deliver measurable improvements in service, inventory, working capital, cost, planning, supplier performance, and productivity.

• Builds, leads, and develops a high-performing global supply chain organization with clear accountability, strong operating mechanisms, inclusive leadership, and capabilities across planning, inventory, analytics, procurement, logistics, risk, and continuous improvement.

• Establishes succession plans and talent pipelines while fostering collaboration, accountability, customer focus, innovation, continuous improvement, and respect across regions and functions.

• Performs other related duties, as required.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL/ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS

• Lifting -- Not to exceed 50 lbs. - local practice may apply.

• Writing

• Sitting

• Standing

• Bending

• Visual acuity

• Color perception

• Depth perception

• Reading

• Field of vision/peripheral

SUMMARY OF MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

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