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. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

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 95,000 employees, including 13,500 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, 2,700+ 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, we’re 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

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s 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.

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 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