Principal Sourcing Specialist

The Sourcing Specialist will work with the client, HiArc's Program Manager, our procurement team, and the project's engineering, scientific, QA and QC teams to lead the selection of vendors that supply materials and/or items to HiArc for the client's medical device being manufactured at HiArc.

The Sourcing Specialist will be the person responsible for the project to establish sourcing criteria for vendor selection.

These criteria will be established based on the combined stakeholder needs of HiArc's Operations.

the client's technical team, HiArc's QA/QC and the client's QA team.

If the vendor selection criteria conflict between stakeholders, then the Sourcing Specialist will be responsible for ensuring the conflict is resolved so that vendors can be selected for the project in the timeframe needed to meet the project's schedule.

The Sourcing Specialist will be the voice of the supplier when project schedules are established, reviewed and revised.

Once all sourcing criteria are established, the Sourcing Specialist will identify vendor candidates and evaluate their attributes against the project's sourcing criteria and drive the project's selection of primary and secondary vendors.

The Sourcing Specialist will provide information to HiArc Operations and QA to ensure the selected vendors can be placed on HiArc's approved supplier list.

This is a specialized role that will work on a project in a fully dedicated manner for several months.

Once the primary and secondary vendors are selected and the specifications are documented, then the procurement and buying activities will be transferred to HiArc Operations' Procurement team.

Responsibilities:


* Gain alignment between the client and HiARC Operations, including Quality Assurance, with regards to sourcing criteria for vendor selection for materials and vendor supplied items to be procured by KMC for the client's medical device


* Document the project's sourcing criteria before vendor selection including the needs of the applicable medical device regulations governing that project


* Identify candidate vendors, document the attributes of the candidate vendors against the sourcing criteria and recommend vendors to the client and KMC Operations


* Gain the alignment and drive the decision to select the vendors for the project


* Gain alignment with the client, HiARC Operations and the vendor on Quality Control evaluations to be performed on the vendor supplied materials and items


* Represent the vendor in project reviews of item specifications and drawings


* Resolve questions between the project team and vendors related to information on item specifications and drawings


* Ensure that QC evaluations are sufficiently documented on item specifications and/or item drawings


* Review material and item specifications to identify material and process complexities.

This task includes the review and evaluation of assembly drawings, schematics, bills of material, spec d...