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The Role
The Category Sourcing Manager leads global category strategy for enterprise spend, driving value and innovation while managing supplier relationships and procurement budgets.
Summary Generated by Built In
Work Flexibility: HybridTravel Percentage: 10%
What You Will Do
- Lead global category strategy for a significant portion of enterprise spend, driving value, innovation, and risk mitigation across the portfolio.
- Define and execute category strategies that align with business priorities, ensuring strong performance across quality, service, cost, and supply continuity.
- Partner cross‑functionally with Divisional Procurement, Supplier Quality, Operations, Materials Management, Engineering, Senior Leadership, Legal, and Compliance to deliver integrated sourcing solutions.
- Drive value creation through strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and ongoing supplier relationship management.
- Lead cross‑functional initiatives to develop and implement Global Category Plans, including cost reduction initiatives, supply base optimization and rationalization, quality improvement, risk management, and contract strategies.
- Develop and execute commodity strategies in support of divisional and enterprise business objectives.
- Build and maintain strong commercial and contractual relationships with senior leadership at key suppliers.
- Lead sourcing analytics and decision‑making, including total cost modeling and make‑versus‑buy analyses.
- Align strategic external investments with suppliers and internal stakeholders, including Research and Development and Business Development teams, to support innovation and capability growth.
- Manage procurement budgets, conduct financial analysis, and use forecasting to optimize spend and ensure alignment with financial objectives
What you need:
- Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, or Procurement.
- Proven experience leading enterprise‑level category strategies in a global or matrixed environment.
- Experience in Medical Devices or highly regulated industries.
- Strong knowledge of capital equipment and manufacturing‑related categories (CAPEX).
Preferred
- Experience working with complex global supply bases and senior executive stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to influence, negotiate, and drive results in cross‑functional environments.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum 8 years of experience in Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, or Procurement
- Proven experience leading enterprise-level category strategies in a global or matrixed environment
- Experience in Medical Devices or highly regulated industries
- Strong knowledge of capital equipment and manufacturing-related categories (CAPEX)
Stryker Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stryker and has not been reviewed or approved by Stryker.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with multiple medical plan options and added protections such as critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity, plus mental health resources. Wellbeing programs, onsite gyms, and fitness/nutrition classes further reinforce the perceived strength of health benefits.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are seen as strong, highlighted by a competitive 401(k) plan with company matching and potential discretionary contributions. These elements are often viewed as valuable pillars of total rewards.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Variable pay is viewed positively, with annual bonuses and sales commissions often lifting total compensation. Incentive plans are seen as a meaningful contributor to pay satisfaction in roles where performance drives earnings.
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The Company
What We Do
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 130 million patients annually. More information is available at www.stryker.com. Together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better.
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