Procurement

• Advocate for the supply management function with business units and operational partners to ensure support for core business objectives
• Negotiate contracts that provide year-over-year benefits in performance
• Identify and develop business cases for a healthy year-over-year cost-reduction pipeline with suppliers through lean, should-cost, process improvement, tier-2 strategies, and yield improvements
• Perform market analysis to identify the best cost country for sourcing of said category, guide technical sourcing and engineering with supplier innovations, and proactively develop forward-buy agreements where appropriate
• Define and manage winning category strategies and approaches with suppliers
• Develop supplier relationships and drive year-over-year performance improvements with quality, delivery, and costs
• Lead regular business reviews with suppliers
• Analyze received quotations, select or recommend new suppliers
• Rationalize existing supplier base through stratification, market analysis, supplier development, and supplier consolidation
• Support new and ongoing supplier quality audit activities to ensure the supply base has robust process controls and capabilities to meet existing and future Medtronic business requirements
• Conduct supply chain risk reviews
• Act independently to prescribe methods and new approaches for new and special assignments
• Identify and use metrics, tools, business intelligence, and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities, and efficiency, while collaborating with team members to prioritize and drive implementation

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