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

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Lead the creation and implementation of long-term sourcing strategies for EMEA Supply Chain categories aligned with global objectives and ensure strategies optimize quality cost cycle time technology adoption and risk management
• Own the sourcing lifecycle from market analysis supplier selection negotiation contracting and performance management
• Drive compliance with corporate policies and regional regulations and partner with regional and global business leaders to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet operational and strategic goals
• Influence senior stakeholders and align sourcing strategies with business priorities.
• Establish and maintain strategic supplier partnerships to ensure continuity innovation and competitive advantage and monitor supplier performance and implement corrective actions as needed
• Identify and mitigate supply chain risks across transportation warehousing and distribution
• Leverage technology and analytics to improve processes and reduce total cost of ownership and support global sourcing initiatives and contribute to enterprise-wide projects impacting supply chain operations

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Mastery of strategic sourcing and supply chain management principles
• Strong knowledge of transportation warehousing and distribution markets in EMEA
• Proven ability to lead complex projects and influence senior stakeholders
• Bachelors degree (or equivalent per local regulations) with 10 years of relevant experience or advanced degree with 8 years of experience
• Expertise in project management and supplier negotiations

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.

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.

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