Senior Indirect Sourcing Specialist
Share
Job Location:
Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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
The Senior Indirect Sourcing Specialist support end-to-end sourcing processes across the LATAM region for Supply Chain categories including transportation warehousing and trade compliance while contributing to global or special initiatives as needed. As part of a global Indirect Sourcing team it will report into a new LATAM Sr. Manager position that reports into the Director Strategic Sourcing based in the US. The successful candidate will work in strong partnership with Medtronics Supply Chain Deliver stakeholders and will directly contribute to our company mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life. The candidate can be working in a flex work model in Colombia Puerto Rico Brazil and Mexico.Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Create value across $150M in annual indirect spend in the region
- Work independently and as part of a global and regional team
- Build strong strategic relationships with key suppliers and stakeholders
- Support development of strategies that result in a sustainable competitive advantage
- Best-in-class analytical skills particularly with Microsoft Excel and PowerBI to identify organize and measure suppliers spend and value creation opportunities
- Achieve (year-on-year) value improvements for all aspects of quality service innovation cost
- Perform and support RF(x) events to drive competitive pressure and ensure maximum value is realized
- Lead and support contract negotiations with suppliers and Legal
- Provide stakeholders with a balanced view of contract risk and liabilities
- Contribute to multi-year (at least 2 years) pipeline to support planning processes
- 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
- 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
- Five years of relevant experience in Logistics Sourcing or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in Sourcing
- Prior experience in Supply Chain & Logistics or Logistics Sourcing
- 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; Experience working with ERP systems preferably SAP and TMS 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
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Purchasing
- Sourcing
- Procurement
- Vendor Management
- ATS
- HR Sourcing
- Supply Chain Experience
- Supplier Management
- Contract Negotiation
- negotiation
- Contracts
- Recruiting
About Company
About Medtronic Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an excit ... View more
