Sr. Strategic Sourcing Program Manager

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 26 Nov 2025

 

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 LifeJoin Sourcing Excellence as a Sr. Strategic Sourcing Program Manager, where you will support the Diabetes Procurement organization as a key member of our global team of dreamers and doers working tirelessly to reduce the burdens of living with diabetes. Our systems-first approach to diabetes care and innovative solutions are designed to meet people wherever they are in their diabetes journey and to help make their lives easier.
This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.
Sourcing Excellence owns and establishes the tools & processes that enable the procurement team to deliver maximum value and operational efficiency. We lead the adoption of standard work that results in reliable governance and organized consistency. We apply logical, data-based, and methodical approaches to problem solving. This team is responsible for crafting rules of engagement, generating useful templates, and defining optimal process flows. In addition, the team works to increase visibility and centralized access to information, including but not limited to risks and opportunities, goals and OKRs, supplier data, and external market data. Sourcing Excellence also develops and encourages a continuous improvement mindset to optimize and streamline ideation, tracking, and reporting of material cost savings. Basically, the team creates and maintains practical and effective operating mechanisms to make it easy to get work done.
Sourcing Excellence roles engage with Ops, Finance, Quality, R&D, Supply Chain, Suppliers and others, requiring skills in:
• Technical Acumen
• Business Acumen
• Project Management
• Leadership
Manage and execute Sourcing Deliverables in support of achieving business strategic imperatives:
• Deliver a 5-star customer experience
• Accelerate new product innovation
• Run the business better to invest in our future
• Achieve double-digit growth and expand margins

Project Management- Coordinate and execute Sourcing Excellence project deliverables in support of Procurement priorities. Lead critical Diabetes separation efforts to ensure business continuity and Day 1 readiness. Effectively manage multiple workstreams, drive accountability and closure of open actions, align with key stakeholders and regularly report out to leadership. Facilitate process governance, develop digital innovation, support business intelligence, and preserve responsible sourcing. Influence impactful decisions and advocate for standard work tools and processes with a continuous improvement mindset.

Process Governance – Prepare for Day 1 readiness, knowledge transfer and team training, TSA exit management, contract administration, and policies / procedures. Establish structure for OKRs, business processes, and governance. Define cross-functional information flow & op mechanisms, e.g., Monthly Sourcing Review. Drive reporting of material cost savings (design, negotiations) & ideation hopper. PPV tracking and efficient escalation processes, templates, and intake forms.

Digital Innovation – Make work easier and simplify. Streamline through digitalization, automation, and AI tools. Optimize resources to be nimble and lean. Knowledge share through internal SharePoint sites and help maintain business portals that support procurement. Continuous improvement and functional excellence.

Business Intelligence – Make data readily available to enable well informed decisions. Set up internal resources such as dashboards, analytics, contract repository, risk management. Leverage external sources including market research reports and category / industry trend analyses.

Responsible Sourcing – Uphold global standards and supplier code of conduct in our supply chain. That includes engagement in areas such as corporate citizenship, environmental stability, conflict minerals, labor rights, and supplier diversity (small and diverse-owned high performing suppliers).

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant technical and/or sourcing experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.

Nice to Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• Proven communication, leadership, and exceptional interpersonal and team-building skills, fostering effective collaboration within global teams.
• Extensive experience in project management, including developing and launching medical devices; PMI-certified professional.
• Proficient in supplier management, negotiation, and overall supply chain processes.
• Skilled in Lean and Six Sigma methodologies with expertise in Design for Reliability and Manufacturability.
• Strong business understanding and the ability to influence objectives in a matrix organization.
• Broad experience in manufacturing processes and material/component replacement initiatives.
• Knowledgeable in design, production, and supplier-related efforts for medical device development.
• Willingness to travel: 10-25%

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. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$138,400.00 - $207,600.00

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

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

 

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

 

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

 

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

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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.

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