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Senior Vendor Management Program Manager – IT Strategic Partnerships
Medtronic
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Mounds View • Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $156,000 - $234,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Develops, manages, and continuously improves the strategic partnerships program.
- Able to create a strategy, structure, and templates for ongoing execution through the vendor management team and their suppliers
- Works collaboratively with Global IT leadership, internal customers, and our most impactful technology partners (~Top 30) to align strategy with execution
- Understands the relationship between governance and partnership and provides a framework for both.
- Serves as the architect and thought leader for VMO's supplier scorecard program, while building relationship capital, access, and advocacy with technology leaders and executive sponsors.
- Working with the vendor management team, creates and maintains relationship ladders and stakeholder maps with our leading technology suppliers.
- Able to use these relationships to map out priorities, influence outcomes, and ensure Medtronic's needs are met by our suppliers.
- Creates a pipeline of innovation by connecting Medtronic's expressed or unmet needs to partner capabilities, resources, and roadmaps.
- Enables the right level of conversation between the right people to find and develop innovative solutions, use cases, and forward-looking opportunities.
- Delivers measurable quality and performance gains year-over-year, through the creation and execution of scorecards, providing a forum for SLA/KPI review and improvement plans generated from quantitative and qualitative feedback.
- Delivers measurable financial value year-over-year, coming from the identification and execution of use cases which leverage new-to-Medtronic supplier capabilities in digital, AI, and automation, resulting in hard-dollar return on investment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 7+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree
- Strongly Preferred: Bachelor's or advanced degree in a technical or business-related discipline
- 7+ years working in some combination of IT operations, procurement, or vendor management; where measuring, managing, and influencing supplier outcomes was a core part of the position
- 7+ years working with large, strategic IT suppliers, preferably across a variety of commodity areas, i.e. Hardware, Software, Network, and IT Services
- 7+ years creating and driving vendor strategy, aligning customer requirements with third-party services, delivering successful outcomes via internal and external teams
- Experience delivering programmatic vendor management and/or strategic programs at scale; comfortable working across a matrixed organization to create templates, standards, and program elements to be implemented by a global VMO and its stakeholders
- Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills, specifically as it relates to working with internal and external teams to maintain effective relationships and long-term partnerships
- Ability to influence - both internally and externally - using an objective, data-driven approach to reach the right solution
- Strong presentation skills - in support of both monthly recurring reporting and ad hoc strategy and analysis that must be communicated to internal customers
- Intellectually curious and entrepreneurial - always looking for new approaches to problems, and new opportunities for improvement
- Optimistic and solution focused - brings a positive outlook to the team, with a belief that we can always find a better, faster, cheaper way to deliver vs. the status quo
Benefits
- Health, Dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
- Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
vendor managementIT operationsprocurementprogrammatic vendor managementstrategic programsscorecard creationSLA/KPI managementdigital capabilitiesAIautomation
Soft skills
communication skillsinterpersonal skillsinfluencing skillspresentation skillsintellectual curiosityentrepreneurial mindsetoptimismsolution-focused approachcollaborationrelationship management
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeadvanced degree