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:

• Identify and nurture talent
• Create value across $150M in annual indirect spend in the region
• Engage and influence multiple stakeholders (mostly senior leadership across both manufacturing and commercial sites) to adopt and implement strategies developed by the team; Medtronic is a highly matrixed organization and having the ability to influence and leverage the matrix is a key requirement
• Work independently and build strategic relationships with key suppliers
• Develop and implement strategies that result in a sustainable competitive advantage
• Achieve (year-on-year) value improvements for all aspects of quality service innovation cost
• Perform RF(x) events to drive competitive pressure and ensure maximum value is realized
• Lead contract negotiations
• Provide stakeholders with a balanced view of contract risk and liabilities
• Build multi-year (at least 2 years) pipeline to support planning process
• Assist in Supplier Stratification activities (e.g. Supplier Relationship Management)
• Gather Market Intelligence and trends for relevant categories and associated sub-categories
• Gather internal and external benchmarks in a systematic manner to support sourcing efforts
• Recommend solutions to business problems and/or identify opportunities for improvement
• Follow governance processes and Purchasing Controls systems to ensure compliance
• Educate and train stakeholders on key indirect supply management initiatives and policies

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelors degree
• Ten years of relevant experience in Logistics Sourcing or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in Logistics Sourcing
• Prior experience in Supply Chain & Logistics or Logistics Sourcing
• Prior leadership experience
• Fluency in Spanish and English
• Strong negotiating skills and training
• Knowledge using MS Office Suite (Word Excel PPT)
• Strong analytical and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Knowledge of working in FDA regulated industries; Masters degree (e.g. MBA); Understanding of underlying economics of Supply Chain and Proficient in MS Excel and PowerBI is advantageous

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