Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist – MRO
Medtronic
Senior Sourcing Specialist
Medtronic
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Report to the ISM Ops Network leader as a key member of Medtronic’s center-led Indirect Supply Management (ISM) team
- Identify, lead, and execute projects that deliver economic value to the global Operations Networks
- Conduct complex analysis of sourcing information for process improvement while maintaining high-quality product and service delivery
- 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 closely with legal, finance, quality/compliance and other functions that support supply management
- Ensure manufacturing sites are adequately supported, including stakeholder engagement, dashboards, site-level diagnostics, workshops to identify savings opportunities, managing supplier quality, and ensuring supply continuity
- Facilitate the supplier capacity assurance process, provide capacity guidance to suppliers, analyze and propose solutions for capacity constraints, and facilitate allocation discussions if required
- Build strong supplier relationships and serve as primary contact for issue resolution with suppliers
- Develop robust data gathering and data quality maintenance protocols to ensure spend transparency and support sourcing cost reduction baselines
- Initiate and implement appropriate category strategy change
- Create and establish internal and external benchmark analysis, including gap analysis and required actions
- Lead supplier negotiation efforts and manage strategic supplier contracts
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 4 years of strategic sourcing experience in Strategic Sourcing including Supply Chain projects in a multi-divisional corporation
- Experience in indirect sourcing and executing the category strategies
- Strong stakeholders’ management skills to be a recognized Trusted Advisor
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong negotiation skills
- Strong supplier management skills
- Project management skills
- Track record in achieving cost savings and contract management
- Knowledge of the Procure-to-Pay process
- Additional language skills (verbal & written) are a plus
- Highly proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI (nice to have)
- Ability to engage and influence stakeholders; ability to leverage a matrixed organization (nice to have)
- Collaborative team player, critical thinking skills, exceptional communication skills (nice to have)
- For Office Roles: regularly required to be independently mobile, interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers.
