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Sr. Operations Sourcing Manager

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Jul 2026

💰 $216,000/yr($144,000/yr – $216,000/yr)

About the role

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Join our Operations Sourcing team as a Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager, where you’ll lead a team responsible for ensuring raw material supply continuity and long-term supplier risk reduction. Your expertise will help power solutions for the Colorado Campus, solving complex supply challenges and fueling Medtronic’s mission to improve patient lives every day.

You will lead and develop a team to identify, implement, and align global sourcing strategies, supplier risk-mitigation projects, capacity plans, and continuous improvement plans to achieve business objectives. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring supply chain stability and driving margin enhancement.

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. Strategic Sourcing Manager, you will:

Lead and develop the Operations Sourcing function supporting Medtronic’s Colorado Campus, with direct leadership responsibility for a team of four Operations Sourcing professionals.
Develop and execute strategic Operations Sourcing initiatives that improve supplier performance, drive operational excellence, and enhance Supplier On-Time-In-Full (OTIF) delivery results.
Ensure uninterrupted supply continuity for Colorado Campus manufacturing operations by proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating supplier-related risks across the Boulder, Louisville, and Parker sites.
Lead critical supplier negotiations focused on supply assurance, capacity expansion, performance improvement, contract management, and cost reduction opportunities while strengthening strategic supplier partnerships.
Drive comprehensive portfolio component risk assessments, identifying vulnerabilities and leading cross-functional mitigation strategies to reduce supply chain risk and improve business resiliency.
Enhance escalation management and tier governance processes to improve visibility, accountability, and responsiveness to supplier performance and supply continuity challenges.
Serve as the primary escalation point for Purchasing and Supplier Quality