We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 11 Mar 2026

 

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 Strategic Sourcing organization as a Senior Supplier Relationship Manager (SRM), leading executive-level relationships with key suppliers to unlock long-term, enterprise-wide value. Through strong governance and broad partnership across Operating Units and Enterprise functions, you will shape a resilient, innovative, and high-performing global supply base that directly supports the Medtronic mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.

In this highly visible role, your strategic and innovative leadership will accelerate collaboration, embed best practices, and expand value creation opportunities throughout the supplier relationship and contract lifecycle.

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 a Senior Supplier Relationship Manager supporting Contract Manufacturing, you will:

• Cultivate and maintain executive-level relationships with key suppliers to foster innovation, ensure supply resilience, and enhance long-term enterprise value.

• Establish collaborative partnerships to identify and achieve measurable improvements in quality, delivery, cost efficiency, risk management, and responsible sourcing.

• Serve as the principal point of contact for designated suppliers, overseeing governance routines, communication protocols, and escalation processes.

• Design and implement strategic relationship plans and conduct supplier executive business reviews in alignment with Medtronic’s long-term objectives.

• Drive value-creation initiatives throughout the multi-year productivity pipeline, ensuring alignment with both enterprise and Operating Unit priorities.

• Lead joint improvement projects, promoting best-practice sharing, uncovering innovation opportunities, and supporting continuous improvement efforts.

• Monitor and report on supplier performance, risk trends, and value-creation outcomes to senior leadership.

• Ensure suppliers fulfill contractual commitments, governance standards, and business requirements.

• Support negotiation efforts and manage multi-year contracts.

• Collaborate with Category Management to execute category strategies, including assessments, due diligence, remediation, ongoing monitoring, and off-boarding activities.

• Act as the primary liaison between Supply Management and various cross-functional stakeholders within Operating Units, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and Legal to promote consistent, risk-based supplier management practices.

• Lead cross-functional issue resolution, strategic initiatives, and improvement efforts driven by either suppliers or Medtronic.

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Effective deployment of supplier relationships and performance management frameworks.

• Year‑over‑year improvement in supplier relationships, performance, and risk indicators.

• Delivery of value (efficiency, innovation, total cost, and growth/spend consolidation).

• Compliance with responsible sourcing and risk requirements.

• Effective stewardship of strategic suppliers across significant spend.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in sourcing, supply chain, operations, or supplier management, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in sourcing, supply chain, operations, or supplier management.

Nice to Have

• Experience in medical devices or other regulated, technical industries

• Experience supporting contract manufacturing, outsourcing, and the electronics market & industry

• Category management/supplier management experience with sourcing practices, risk management processes, and category strategy concepts

• Negotiation training/certification

• Experience with supplier analytics, ERP systems, and contract management tools

• Strong communication, change leadership, and cros