What you will do
The Senior Manager, Category Sourcing – Plastics (Remote) is responsible for leading category strategy and execution across plastics, including general assembly, extrusion, and catheter assembly. This role is critical to ensuring supply continuity, cost competitiveness, and long-term value creation across a complex global supplier network.
You will lead high-impact sourcing initiatives, negotiate sophisticated commercial agreements, and manage strategic supplier relationships to deliver measurable results. By leveraging market intelligence, supplier insights, and data-driven decision-making, you will shape category direction and align sourcing strategies with enterprise priorities.
Partnering closely with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Legal, you will help resolve complex challenges, enable product innovation, and support business growth. With full accountability for category spend, you will drive cost optimization, mitigate risk, and enhance supplier performance across the plastics value chain—while elevating sourcing capabilities through strong analytics and forward-looking strategies.
- Lead and execute category strategy across plastics, including general assembly, extrusion, and catheter assembly, aligned with business and product roadmap priorities
- Drive end-to-end sourcing strategy, including supplier segmentation, cost optimization, and long-term supply continuity planning
- Negotiate and structure complex commercial agreements, including long-term contracts, volume commitments, and pricing frameworks with key strategic suppliers
- Leverage market intelligence and industry trends to inform sourcing decisions, including advancements in plastics technology, materials innovation, and supplier capabilities
- Partner cross-functionally with engineering, quality, and operations to align sourcing strategies with product development and manufacturing requirements
- Identify and execute value creation opportunities, including cost savings, risk mitigation, and supplier consolidation initiatives
- Ensure all sourcing activities, contracts, and supplier engagements align with company policies, governance standards, and compliance requirements
What you need
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management, engineering or related field
- 10 years of experience sourcing, category management, procurement, or supply chain roles
- Experience leading complex negotiations and managing strategic supplier relationships
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading sourcing initiatives within complex, engineered or materials-based supply markets, with plastics experience
- Experience using analytics and AI tools to evaluate supply markets, support fact-based negotiations, and deliver measurable business impact
United States of America Pay Ranges:
- USN: $118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual
- US5: $123,900 - $206,500 USD Annual
- US10: $129,800 - $216,400 USD Annual
- US15: $135,700 - $226,200 USD Annual
- US20: $141,600 - $236,000 USD Annual
- US30: $153,400 - $255,700 USD Annual
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Travel Percentage: NoneStryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, engineering or related field
- 10 years of experience in sourcing, category management, procurement, or supply chain roles
- Experience leading complex negotiations and managing strategic supplier relationships
- Experience leading sourcing initiatives within complex, engineered or materials-based supply markets, with plastics experience
- Experience using analytics and AI tools to evaluate supply markets and support negotiations
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