We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Oct 2025

 

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Join Medtronic’s Global Sourcing team as the Sr. Category Manager for Contract Manufacturing – In this role, you will manage medium- to large-scale High-Level Assembly devices, which may operate independently or in conjunction with single-use disposable devices.

You will develop and execute category strategies that drive business impact. Key areas of focus include:

• Leading category strategy and execution
• Driving cost reduction initiatives
• Ensuring on-time delivery and quality performance
• Managing and improving supplier relationships
• Overseeing supplier performance and consolidation/rationalization

This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by strengthening Medtronic’s partnerships with contract manufacturers and advancing the performance of our global supply base.

To achieve success in this position, you will require strong skills in contract management and negotiations, product application knowledge, technical aptitude, cost management, operations, and manufacturing knowledge, global trade and logistics, supplier relationship management, NPI/NDP knowledge, and experience and strong relationship building. As a successful Sr. Category Manager, you will have to understand the industry, the market, and the category environment, identify and develop, and execute category strategies that can leverage suppliers’ capabilities and Medtronic’s purchasing power at a global scale to attain world-class product costs and the most competitive total cost of ownership.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week, onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. 

As the Sr. Category Manager for Contract Manufacturing- medium to large-scale High-Level Assembly devices, you will engage with Operating Units leadership to ensure delivery of effective category management strategies and standards that deliver to Medtronic’s overall operations and business results. You will support and own key initiatives relevant to global finished goods strategies. Through strategic leadership, you will facilitate or support Operation Networks discussions that will optimize the commodity in terms of quality, service, technology, market intelligence, risk, and total cost of ownership.

You will work to leverage Operations Network strategies at an enterprise level and continuously develop and improve leveraging opportunities by consolidating spend with key business partners supporting the broader interests of Medtronic. In addition, you will leverage strategic sourcing processes across Medtronic by maximizing the company’s combined purchase power to reduce the overall cost of ownership and acquisition through strategic negotiations and optimize supplier relationship management opportunities through partnerships within their primary categories of oversight. You will collaborate with the GTS Group and the Medtronic Operating Units to ensure category strategy alignment when executing and completing NPI/NPD projects.

As the Sr. Category Manager-Contract Manufacturing, you will:

• Lead an estimated ~ $300M annual spend on medium to large-scale High-Level Assembly devices, create and develop, and gain business alignment for Category Strategies

• Execute category strategies and continuous category strategy adjustments and reviews with internal and external stakeholders. Conduct global market intelligence for the Specialty Materials category and provide insights to support network optimization opportunities.

• Advocate on behalf of the supply management function with business units and operational partners to ensure support for core business objectives.

• Negotiate contracts that provide year-over-year performance benefits.

• Identify and develop business cases for a healthy year-over-year cost reduction pipeline with suppliers through lean, should costing, process improvement, tier 2 strategies, and yield improvements

• Perform market analysis in identifying the best cost country sourcing of the category, provide guidance to technical sourcing and engineering with supplier innovations, and proactively develop forward buy agreements where appropriate

• Manage contract manufacturers