Reporting to the Supplier Development Manager, key responsibilities of this position include:

� Company wide leadership for supplier development coordination with external battery supplier,
capacitor supplier and other mechanical implantable components.

� Provide technical expertise and leadership to sourcing and development of suppliers with
respect to technology, performance, quality, cost, logistics, and delivery.

� Assist suppliers to ensure that selection, development, and validation of manufacturing
processes, equipment, and tooling are performed to the meet state of the art ISO and FDA
requirements.

� Ensure suppliers are able to meet requirements for performance, quality, cost and delivery of
components and company requirements for supplier certification.  

� Conduct supplier audits, supplier ratings and risk assessments, and cost reduction programs,
resolve supplier quality issues and driving continuous improvements for components.

� Facilitate and manage qualification testing that leads to the approval of components for use
in implantable products. 

� Monitor and track the progress of supplier�s development, internal conformance to standards
and readiness evaluations

� Provide ongoing quality monitoring and interface with external vendors on line issues to
ensure highest quality product is maintained. 

� Provide ongoing quality monitoring and interface with external vendors to ensure highest
quality product is maintained.  

� Resolve supplier component-related problems, including yield issues and failure analyses.