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Join Medtronic’s Global Sourcing team as the Sr. Category Manager for Contract Manufacturing – Disposables to develop and execute category strategies. You will lead category strategy, cost reduction initiatives, on-time delivery, quality, supplier performance, supplier consolidation/rationalization, and improve on contract manufacturers relationships.

To achieve success in this position, you will require solid and effective 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 supplier’s capabilities and Medtronic’s purchasing power at a global scale to attain world-class product costs and the most competitive total cost of ownership.

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Remote flexibility is possible based on the candidate's location.

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

• Manage an estimated ~ $323M annual spend on disposable finished devices, create and develop, and gain business alignment for caategory 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 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 to identify the best cost country sourcing of category, guide technical sourcing and engineering with supplier innovations, and proactively develop forward buy agreements where appropriate.

• Manage contract manufacturers' relationships and drive year-over-year performance improvements with quality, delivery, and costs. Lead regular business reviews with contract manufacturers.

• Rationalize existing supplier base through stratification, market analysis, supplier development, and contract manufacturer consolidation.

• Lead new and ongoing supplier audit activities to ensure the supply base has robust process controls and capabilities to meet existing and future Medtronic business requirements. Develop market &