• Address: Vista, CA 92085 (map)
• Date Posted: 10/03/09
• Job Type: Full-time

Leading medical device firm in northern San Diego County seeks a Manager, Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) to provide global data governance and maintenance for Product Lifecycle Management and Product Data Management activities.

To apply for the position, please send your resume as a word doc attachment to: Recruiting@TechExecPartners.com

The PLM Manager will provide global data governance and maintenance for Product Lifecycle Management and Product Data Management activities. Initially, this position will be responsible for the migration of item data from multiple ERP systems into a global single instance of Oracle eBusiness Suite R12. As part of this initiative, the PLM Manager will lead business initiatives related to data clean-up, de-duplication of records, SKU rationalization, new part number introduction and updates to legacy item data. This role will develop standard nomenclature for all items globally and manage item data conversions for the business. The PLM Manager will manage item data conversions for future business mergers and acquisitions.

This position will initially be project based throughout the global rollout of eBS, then transition to a business role responsible for administering systems and procedures to control company key master data as well as manage item data conversions for future business mergers and acquisitions. Item data includes both Master and Organizational defined item categories, product attributes, bills of material and direct labor routings in support of FDA regulated medical manufacturing. Acting in a corporate global role, this person will indirectly oversee, support and audit the activity of offsite item data entry performed both in the United States and Internationally.

Successful candidates must have strong analytical/problem solving skills and the ability to craft a global vision for the future state of PLM control.

Essential Job Functions Include:

ORACLE PROJECT RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and perform fit/gap analysis between current business processes and revised global processes to manage product master data (such as item master, BOM, and routing information).
• Lead all aspects of analysis and clean-up of legacy product master data, and the conversions into the new ERP system.
• Orchestrate robust functional testing to validate the processes for managing product master data.
• Lead Change Management activities including Documentation and Training on Business Process

FUTURE BUSINESS RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be responsible for Product life-cycle data collection that involves interfacing with various cross functional corporate departments.
• Define and enforce Item Master, BOM, and routing Configuration Management procedures. Improve and maintain global documentation associated with product information.
• Own key metrics for the efficiency of the new product introduction and end of life processing
• Deploying engineer changes to update existing data in alignment with documented quality control procedures.
Education:
Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience:
o 5+ years experience in Configuration Management, Product Data Management, and/or Engineering Processes including Manufacturing or Cost Accounting
o 3+ years experience with Oracle E-Business Suite ENG, BOM, and MFG modules strongly desired.
o Knowledge of the Medical Device industry preferred.

Competency:
o Experience as a Business Process Analyst
o Strong functional knowledge of PDM document management systems (like Agile or similar applications).
o Previous business leadership role in a full lifecycle Product Lifecycle Management system implementation strongly desired.
o Solid Product Lifecycle and Engineering business process background.
o Extremely organized with strong sense of priority, urgency and commitment to deadlines.
o Communication, and Project Management skills to define world processes.

SALARY: Around $90K


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