We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 10 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

In this role, you will be a key member of Medtronic’s center-led Indirect Supply Management (ISM) team and report to the ISM Ops Network leader. This global project-based role allows you to partner with stakeholders across many functions, regions, and businesses to drive value. You will be assigned specific manufacturing sites and will have direct responsibility for identifying, initiating, and executing improvement projects that reduce spend and generate value within the MRO category. You will partner with the center-led category management teams to implement pan-Medtronic procurement strategies and provide critical input to drive future strategies.

The best candidate will possess an intrinsic drive to make a difference in the MRO/Operations category and for Medtronic overall and the patients we serve. The opportunities are limitless, and we seek a candidate who seeks out new opportunities daily to learn and make a difference. The ideal candidate will be able to build and leverage relationships quickly, work independently and collaboratively, and successfully influence.

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.  ​

At Medtronic, we not only get the opportunity to manage indirect categories for the largest medical device company in the world, but we also get to experience the immense sense of purpose that comes from knowing that the money we save is reinvested into technology that helps alleviate pain, restore health, and extend lives of millions of patients across the world.  The work we do supports the Medtronic Mission, and it matters. 

Our team culture is where everyone is expected to “Lead from Every Seat.” Regardless of level or title, everyone is encouraged to be bold, curious, accountable, proactively tackle challenges, and bring forward meaningful solutions. 

As the Sr Strategic Sourcing Specialist-MRO & Operations Category Management, you will:

• Identify, lead, and execute projects that deliver economic value to the global Operations Networks.

• Engage and influence stakeholders; Medtronic is a highly matrixed organization, and having the ability to influence and leverage the matrix

• Partner closely with the center-led category managers to understand and implement key pan-Medtronic strategies

• Represent and share network and site-specific requirements and strategies with the center-led category management organization.

• Partner closely with key functions that support supply management (e.g., legal, finance, quality/compliance)

• Ensure that manufacturing sites are being adequately supported; this includes but is not limited to consistent engagement with key stakeholders, developing and sharing dashboards with information on key metrics at a defined cadence, conducting site-level diagnostics and leading workshops to identify savings opportunities, managing supplier quality, and ensuring supply continuity.

• Educate on key indirect supply management initiatives and policies.

• Develop robust data gathering and data quality maintenance protocols to ensure spend transparency and support the development of a baseline for sourcing cost reduction efforts.

• Initiate and implement appropriate category strategy changes.

• Create and establish internal and external benchmark analysis, including gap analysis, and required actions to achieve functional advantage.

• Lead supplier negotiation efforts

Must Have: Minimum Requirements
 

• Bachelor's degree required

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant strategic sourcing experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant strategic sourcing experience

Nice to Have

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, information systems, business discipline, plus 5+ years of work experience in strategic sourcing, category management, supply chain, operat