Supplier Excellence Lead (Medical Manufacturing)

Location: Aibonito, Puerto Rico; applicants must be authorized to work for a U.S. employer

Salary: $80,000–$110,000 annually

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare products and solutions with a mission to save and sustain lives.

What you will do

• Identify and evaluate total cost optimization opportunities across materials, components, and manufacturing processes.
• Perform should-cost, clean-sheet, teardown, cost-driver, and benchmarking analyses.
• Lead cross-functional technical teams through project planning, technical changes, trials, testing, validation, and implementation.
• Partner with Procurement, Quality, R&D, Operations, Strategy, Finance, and suppliers on cost and supply initiatives.
• Support alternate sourcing, dual qualification, supplier readiness, risk mitigation, and capacity assessments.
• Track projects from opportunity assessment and business case development through execution, savings handover, and governance reporting.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical, materials, plastics, chemicals, packaging, manufacturing engineering, or a related field.
• Proven delivery of multi-million-dollar value engineering savings.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects end to end using structured project management methods.
• Working knowledge of GMP, change control, deviation/CAPA concepts, and validation and qualification principles.
• Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional influence skills.
• Must be authorized to work for a U.S. employer; visa sponsorship or transfer of employment-visa sponsorship is not available. Travel is required approximately 50% of the time.

Nice to have

• Experience with alternate sourcing, supplier qualification, APQP/PPAP, and regulated manufacturing.
• Experience with insourcing transitions, technology transfers, value engineering, and design for manufacturability.
• Experience with cost modeling, should-costing, or clean-sheet methodologies.
• Lean or Six Sigma certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, cross-functional manufacturing environment focused on quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunities for professional development and continuing education.
• Eligible employee benefits include medical and dental coverage, life and disability insurance, retirement savings with company matching, educational assistance, and paid time off.
• Additional benefits may include employee stock purchase options, flexible spending accounts, parental leave, commuting support, childcare benefits, and employee assistance programs.