Job Description:

Confluent Medical Technologies is a financially healthy and rapidly growing medical device company dedicated to working collaboratively with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototype into high volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience and partnership with our clients has allowed us to perfect the process necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative material science, engineering, and manufacturing. Our primary capabilities include: Nitinol components and tubing, balloon expandable stents and catheters, complex catheters, biomedical textiles, and high precision polymer tubing. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers.

At Confluent, we are committed to our values of teamwork, innovation, accountability, integrity, leadership, and customer focus, and we invest in a team who represents these values. Every member of our team plays a critical role in delivering life-saving medical devices through innovative materials science, engineering, and manufacturing. We are the medical device industry's most trusted partner, and we accomplish this with an organization focused on safety, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

As a Senior Value Stream Manager, you will oversee daily operations across multiple production shifts, partnering with Demand Management, Purchasing, Materials, Lean/CI, Quality, and Facilities to ensure on-time, efficient, and cost-effective performance. You’ll manage all aspects of supervision, including staffing, workforce flexibility, onboarding, and employee development. The role focuses on achieving production goals through strong leadership, process discipline, and continuous improvement—measured by results in quality (FPY), safety (DART), and productivity.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serves as a key leader, empowering and motivating cross-cultural teams, clearly communicating goals, and fostering collaboration across geographies.
• Leads and improves daily manufacturing operations across multiple shifts to ensure on-time delivery, productivity, safety, and quality goals (FPY, DART, efficiency).
• Partners with Demand Management, Purchasing, Materials, Lean/CI, Quality, and Facilities to drive cost-effective and high-quality production performance.
• Implements and sustains Lean Manufacturing initiatives, driving continuous improvement and annual cost reductions through process optimization and waste elimination.
• Applies problem-solving methodologies (8D, DMAIC, PPS, A3) to address root causes and support corrective action implementation from audits or performance gaps.
• Manages production planning and resource allocation, ensuring personnel, equipment, and schedules align with business priorities and customer demands.
• Oversees all aspects of supervision, including staffing, onboarding, training, cross-training, coaching, and performance management.
• Ensures a safe and compliant workplace, conducting regular safety inspections and ensuring proper incident reporting and prevention practices.
• Takes ownership of Value Stream P&L, analyzing cost drivers, monitoring product line margins, and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Builds strong relationships and influence across teams and with external customers, traveling domestically and internationally as needed.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Engineering, MBA preferred.
• 8–9 years of experience in supervisory and leadership roles.
• Experience in the medical device industry or knowledge of industry standards is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills (B2 minimum)
• Proven ability to lead and develop multidisciplinary teams effectively.

Other Skills and Abilities

• Strategic and inspirational leader capable of empowering diverse, cross-cultural teams and clearly communicating objectives.
• Proficient in problem-solving methodologies such as 8D, DMAIC, PPS, and A3.
• Strong relationship-building, influencing, and persuasion skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally and collaborate effectively with customers and commercial teams.
• Skilled in analyzing complex problems and providing practical, structured solutions in dynamic environments.
• Able to interpret and apply instructions presented in written, verbal, diagrammatic, or schedule formats.

This job description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all-inclusive of the work to be performed. Other related job objectives, special assignments and less significant responsibilities will typically be performed by the incumbent(s).