We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 6 Mar 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

As the Sr. Director, Category Management-Electronics & Electronic Assemblies, you will manage, identify, implement, and align global sourcing strategies and global supplier network capabilities for Electronics & Electronic Assemblies to achieve business objectives. Through strategic leadership, you will facilitate Operation Networks discussions that will optimize the commodity in terms of quality, service, technology, market intelligence, risk, and total cost of ownership for Medtronic’s Electronics & Electronics Assemblies Tier 1 and Tier 2 spend of $1B.

Partnering closely with Medtronic’s Supply Management Operations Sourcing and Technical Sourcing organizations, you will work to leverage cross Operations Network strategies at an enterprise level and continuously work to 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.

At Medtronic, we not only get the opportunity to manage strategic projects 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 projects we drive enable reinvestment directly 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.

As the Sr. Director, Category Management-Electronics & Electronic Assemblies, you will:

• Establish the strategy for the respective $1B electronic & electronic assemblies category spend.

• Lead the development, execution, and implementation of sourcing and supply management strategies that align with Corporate, Operating Units, and Operation Platforms objectives.

• Optimize performance through the appropriate organization model, institutionalize the strategic sourcing process, deploy enterprise-wide metrics and tools, and establish a high-performance culture.

• Lead supplier cost-down deliverables to support Medtronic's Operation YoY cost improvement objectives as well as supplier strategies development that segments suppliers, assesses and governs performance, rationalizes the supply base, and drives continuous improvement.

• Monitor supply contract maintenance and negotiations (CDAs, supply agreements, etc.), ensuring alignment with current business requirements.  

• Lead complex/critical negotiations with the Senior Executive of suppliers (C-Suite)

• Establish a foundation of excellence and competitive advantage through strong strategic supplier relationships.

• Lead cross-network negotiations and supplier relationship management.

• Work with internal and external resources, driving commodity rationalization, simplification, and localization.

• Lead efforts for category/supplier analysis, selection processes, make/buy, outsourcing, & business transitions.

• Global market intelligence for the Electronics category and provides insights to support supply optimization opportunities.

• Develop talent and manage performance.  This includes individual development planning, mentoring, succession planning, and creating a positive working environment that enables inclusion, high productivity, and employee engagement.

Must Have:

• Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience in a large, mulit-divisional corporation with 10+ years of managerial experience , or advanced degree with a minimum 13 years prior relevant experience, minimum of 10 years of managerial experience.

• Ten (10) plus years of progressive experience working in a world-class supply management organization.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in a highly regulated industry, preferably medical, with global manufacturing

• Fifteen (15) plus years of progressive experience working in a world-class sourcing/procurement organization with a focus on operational excellence

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