Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist

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.

Medtronic is a 75-year global healthcare technology leader guided by a Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life delivering life-transforming technologies across 70 health conditions in cardiovascular neuroscience and surgical care.

Today our 95000 employees including 13500 engineers and scientists work across 150 countries helping treat more than 75 million patients each year. Innovation at Medtronic is disciplined and well-resourced with $2.7B USD invested annually in R&D 2700 patents and 174 active clinical trials all grounded in a deep commitment to quality ethics and putting patients first. As our business grows and we expand our operations in Malaysia were looking for individuals excited to join a team one where purpose meets potential to build careers that change lives.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

Achieve year-on-year value improvements across quality service innovation and cost
Identify and recommend solutions to business problems spot opportunities for improvement and present ideas to leadership
Establish and support a culture of continuous improvement seeking efficiency automation and innovation
Partner closely with center-led category managers to understand and implement enterprise-wide strategies
Represent network and site-specific requirements with the category management organization
Collaborate with key support functions (e.g. legal finance quality/compliance) to align on supply management objectives
Ensure manufacturing sites receive consistent support including stakeholder engagement site-level diagnostics workshops to identify savings and supplier quality/supply continuity oversight
Serve as a communication link between manufacturing facilities and suppliers
Build strong supplier relationships and serve as the primary contact for issue resolution
Lead supplier negotiations and implement strategy changes as needed
Develop robust data gathering and maintenance protocols to ensure spend transparency and establish a baseline for sourcing cost reduction
Conduct internal and external benchmarks and gap analyses; define required actions to achieve functional advantage
Emphasize risk mitigation and ensure execution of procedures that protect supply and operational stability
Note: Business conditions may change so flexibility is required.

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Bachelors degree in Sourcing Supply Chain Business or equivalent
Relevant experience in Sourcing or Supply Chain or advanced degree with a minimum 4 years of relevant experience

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE / SKILLSET REQUIRED:

Highly proficient in Excel PowerPoint Power BI
Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
Demonstrated leadership customer service problem solving communication negotiation tact judgment and organizational skills
High attention to detail
Excellent written and verbal communication

DESIRED / PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Strategy development and execution aligned with Strategic Sourcing methodology
Experience in FDA-regulated industries
Ability to partner with and influence internal technical experts
Proven ability to influence teams and external suppliers to deliver results
Strong program management skills
Solid business and legal acumen
Positive and energetic team player with strong cross-functional collaboration experience

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.

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.

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