Salary
💰 $82,400 - $123,600 per year
About the role
- Report to the ISM Ops Network leader as a key member of Medtronic’s center-led Indirect Supply Management (ISM) team
- Global project-based role partnering with stakeholders across functions, regions, and businesses
- Assigned specific manufacturing sites with direct responsibility for identifying, initiating, and executing improvement projects that reduce spend and generate value within the MRO category
- Identify, lead, and execute projects that deliver economic value to the global Operations Networks
- Engage and influence stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization
- Partner closely with the center-led category managers to understand and implement key pan-Medtronic strategies
- Represent and share network and site-specific requirements and strategies with the center-led category management organization
- Partner with legal, finance, quality/compliance and other supporting functions
- Ensure manufacturing sites are adequately supported through consistent engagement, dashboards on key metrics, site-level diagnostics and workshops to identify savings opportunities
- Manage supplier quality and ensure supply continuity
- Educate on key indirect supply management initiatives and policies
- Develop robust data gathering and data quality maintenance protocols to ensure spend transparency
- Initiate and implement appropriate category strategy changes
- Create and establish internal and external benchmark analysis, including gap analysis and required actions to achieve functional advantage
- Lead supplier negotiation efforts
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant strategic sourcing experience (or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant strategic sourcing experience)
- Nice to Have: Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, information systems, business discipline, plus 5+ years of work experience in strategic sourcing, category management, supply chain, operations, or any functional area with demonstrated analytical and project-based acumen
- Category Management experience in MRO or Operations categories
- Highly proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI
- Ability to manage and influence stakeholders
- Collaborative team player
- Critical thinking skills
- Exceptional communication skills (both written and in person)
- Growth mindset
- Must be able to work a minimum of 4 days a week onsite