Strategic Sourcing Specialist-Supply Chain-Remote

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 is a member of the Contract Center of Excellence team within the Supply Management Solutions team of Medtronic’s Global Supply Management Group. It reports to the Sr. Manager, Supply Management Solutions and will be exposed to a wide variety of contracting activities for many commodities and services supporting Medtronic strategic purchasing.

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

Provides contract management support to assigned categories within Supply Management; includes drafting contracts on standard templates, reviewing supplier red-lines with legal team to ensure they meet guidelines, routing final contracts for signatures and ensuring contracts are correctly archived in the Ariba Contract Management System.

Communicates status of contract requests with internal stakeholders and works to meet business objectives and timelines with a service mindset.

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

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically, an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower-level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Established and productive individual contributor. Leads by example and influences stakeholders toward adherence to global programs and standards. Being part of a new team, a start-up, can-do mentality is a must. Successful candidates will be self-starting and highly coachable with the ability to absorb and adopt new applications and systems.

Works independently with general supervision on larger, moderately complex projects / assignments.

Organizational Impact: Sets objectives for own job area to meet the objectives of projects and assignments.

Contributes to the completion of project milestones.

May have some involvement in cross-functional assignments.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are general and may require understanding of broader set of issues or other job areas but typically are not complex.

Makes adjustments or recommends enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area.

Communication and Influence: Communicates primarily and frequently with internal as well as supplier contacts; External interactions are less complex or problem solving in nature.

Contacts others proactively to share information, status, needs and issues in order to inform, gain input, and translate business requirements into supplier-facing content in support of quality-based decision making.

Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance and assistance to entry level professionals and / or employee in Support or Category Management Career Streams.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires practical knowledge and demonstrated competence within job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.

Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R.

• 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience. Experience with Ariba Contracts or another ERP contracting platform preferred. Experience with strategic sourcing and contracting, supplier relationship management or other SAP Ariba applications are all a plus.
  
  
  

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 90,000+ 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