About This Role
This senior supply chain manager role is responsible for the end-to-end supply strategy and execution for the WCH portfolio within Surgery China. The position drives supply reliability, cost-to-serve optimization, and launch readiness for procedure-driven products, partnering with various internal and global teams to ensure product availability and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead China supply chain strategy for the WCH portfolio: demand-supply alignment, inventory policy, allocation rules, and service level targets
- Own Market/regional IBP execution for WCH: coordinate demand inputs from WCH sales, confirm supply commitments, support capacity planning, and drive executive escalation for constrained SKUs
- Manage inventory and working capital: optimize safety stock, reduce obsolescence, and manage consignment/field-stock models where applicable
- Drive launch readiness and execution for new product introductions and market rollouts: define supply plans, staging and buffer strategies, and allocation principles
- Lead supply risk management and contingency planning: single-source mitigation, dual sourcing, supplier engagement, and expedited logistics options
- Work and partner with cross-functional team to well manage product lifecycle management
- Partner with Quality & Regulatory and Trade Compliance on import/export controls, lot traceability, and recall preparedness that impact supply continuity
- Implement process improvements and digital initiatives to improve planning cadence, transparency, and decision-making
- Demand reconciliation for Surgery WCH under VBP context
- Inventory, allocation, and launch readiness management for new and existing surgical SKUs
- Project management such as LCM initiatives
- Cross-functional collaboration and communication as representative of E2E SC to enable WCH China business growth
Requirements
- Bachelor
- 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
- Functional expertise: Proven track record leading IBP processes, launch readiness, and allocation during constrained supply situations
- Regulatory & quality: Strong understanding of China import/export considerations, lot traceability, recalls, and quality-driven supply processes
- Systems skills: Experience with planning and ERP systems (e.g., SAP ECC/S4 and IBP, Kinaxis, Oracle or equivalent) and analytics/visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau)
- Stakeholder skills: Strong commercial partnering and influencing skills with ability to present trade-offs to WCH sales, distributor, and manufacturing stakeholders
