Director of Global Supply Chain

At Nextern, we inspire with passion, impact with significance, and act with integrity. Nextern partners with OEMs, clinicians, and innovators to design, develop, and manufacture world-class medical devices across the full product lifecycle. From single-use disposables to fully integrated systems to precision components, our teams work as an extension of yours to solve patient needs and improve lives worldwide. The Director, Global Supply Chain provides global functional leadership for Nextern's end-to-end supply chain organization. This role is responsible for building and leading an integrated global supply chain capable of supporting Nextern's growth, manufacturing network, customer commitments, and increasingly complex global operations. The Director will have end-to-end responsibility across strategic sourcing, procurement, supplier management, supply planning, inventory management, materials management, warehousing, logistics, and supply-chain risk. The role will establish the organizational capabilities, processes, systems, governance, and infrastructure necessary to operate as a cohesive global function while maintaining strong connectivity to Nextern's manufacturing sites. A key priority will be advancing Global Supply Chain as a core element of the Nextern Operating System (NOS). The Director will lead the maturation and integration of supply-chain processes, systems, data, management routines, and capabilities across the global network, creating greater consistency, transparency, accountability, and scalability. This position requires a leader who can build organizations and capabilities, develop strong functional leaders, establish clear standards and operating mechanisms, and partner effectively across sites and functions. Success will require balancing global functional leadership with the needs and realities of local manufacturing operations. Responsibilities Global Supply Chain Leadership Provide functional leadership and direction for Nextern's global supply chain organization, including teams supporting the United States, Costa Rica, Vietnam, and China. Establish and execute a global supply chain strategy aligned with Nextern's business strategy, growth plans, manufacturing footprint, and customer requirements. Build a cohesive global function with clear organizational accountability, decision rights, standards, priorities, and performance expectations. Develop the organizational structure, leadership capability, and functional expertise required to support Nextern's continued growth and increasing operational complexity. Establish global priorities while maintaining appropriate flexibility for local site execution and customer requirements. Build strong working relationships between global supply chain leadership, manufacturing site leadership, and other enterprise functions. Strategic Sourcing, Procurement & Supplier Management Lead Nextern's global approach to strategic sourcing, procurement, supplier management, and supplier development. Establish category and sourcing strategies that balance cost, quality, delivery, capacity, continuity of supply, and long-term business requirements. Strengthen supplier selection, qualification, negotiation, contracting, performance management, and ongoing supplier relationship management. Develop a more coordinated approach to supplier negotiations and leverage Nextern's global purchasing scale where appropriate. Establish consistent supplier performance measures, governance, and escalation mechanisms across the global organization. Partner with Quality and Operations to improve supplier performance, address systemic issues, and strengthen supplier capabilities. Proactively identify and manage supply continuity risks, capacity constraints, geographic risks, sole-source dependencies, and other vulnerabilities within the global supply base. Supply Planning & Inventory Provide executive functional ownership for the processes and capabilities supporting demand planning, supp…

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