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

A Day in the Life

This role leads strategic sourcing initiatives and large-scale supply chain projects across cross-functional and cross-divisional teams. The position focuses on developing and executing long-term commodity strategies to optimize quality, cost, risk, technology, and responsiveness.

As a recognized subject matter expert, the role drives supplier strategy, manages complex projects from design to implementation, and influences business decisions through data-driven insights and negotiation expertise.

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

• Provides project management and sourcing expertise to cross-functional, cross-divisional commodity teams.

• Facilitates these teams in the development and execution of long-term strategies that will optimize Medtronic's position in terms of quality, cycle/response time, technology, risk, and total cost.

• Mitigates supply risk, leverages technology and purchase power, improves processes and systems, and reduces overall cost of ownership and acquisition.

• Negotiates, establishes and monitors supplier agreements.

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree required

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience; OR

• Advanced degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience

• Strong experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain management

• Proven project management experience handling large, complex initiatives

• Advanced negotiation and supplier management skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability

• Ability to manage ambiguity and solve undefined, complex problems

• Experience influencing stakeholders at multiple levels

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Experience leading cross-functional teams

• Ability to coach and mentor junior professionals

• Solid understanding of industry practices and supply chain trends

 

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.
 

 

 

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

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 95,000+ 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