We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 15 Dec 2025

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Join our Global Supply Management team as a Category Manager- Electronics where you will utilize your strong track record of delivering results in a matrixed organization. Where collaboration with diverse individuals teams and skill sets is essential for success.

As the Category Manager-Electronics you will partner and lead several categories in electronics including Distribution COTs (Common off the shelf components) and switches and relays categories. You will utilize your strong negotiation skills technical aptitude and strong relationship-building skills. As the Category Manager you will understand global markets of raw materials and possess technical aptitude on secondary processes to develop global strategies that leverage Medtronics global purchasing power and deliver cost-effective and innovative solutions to each operating unit within our addition you will focus on multiple tiers in their suppliers supply chain to maximize leverage and awareness to ensure compliance and continuity.

We seek candidates who will meet our customer expectations by striving without reserve for the highest possible reliability and quality in our products processes and systems by being accountable having a voice and taking action.

At Medtronic we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we -person exchanges are invaluable to our work. Were working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

As the Category Manager you will:

• Advocate on behalf of 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 RFQs should costing process improvement tier 2 strategies and yield improvements
• Perform market analysis in identifying the best cost country sourcing of said category provide guidance to 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.
• Manage 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 on-going supplier quality audit activities to ensure the supply base has robust process controls and capabilities to meet existing and future Medtronic business requirement
• Conduct supply chain risk reviews
• Act independently to prescribe methods and new approaches on new and special assignments
• Identify and utilize metrics tools business intelligence and processes to optimize sourcing supplier activities and efficiencies while working collaboratively with team members to prioritize and drive implementation.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or an advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Highly skilled in developing and executing negotiation strategies with strong organization and collaboration skills
• Understanding of electronic component commodity market trends and manufacturing process technologies of the category
• Skilled in developing category strategies contract reviews lean manufacturing business case development Best Cost Country (BCR) sourcing experience and product/process transfer/change requirements in a regulatory environment with strong presentation skills
• Experience using lean methodology processes in a manufacturing environment is a plus
• Experience in a low-volume and high-mix demand for products environment
• Negotiation analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good organization project management and follow-through skills
• Ability to prioritize multitask and act in a proactive manner
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel Analytics and SAP experience preferred
• Ability to travel to vendor locations is required- domestic and international

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$110400.00 - $165600.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience certification/education market conditions and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.