Senior Buyer

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At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

Join the Materials Management team at Boston Scientific in Maple Grove, MN as a Senior Buyer within the Purchasing department. Boston Scientific is a global medical device manufacturer delivering millions of medical solutions annually. Maple Grove produces sterilized finished goods and sub-assemblies that support the broader plant network, creating a dynamic, high-complexity environment for Materials Management.
The Senior Buyer will serve as a purchasing leader responsible for ensuring supply continuity, supplier execution, inventory health, and material availability for critical product families within the North America region. This role requires a highly analytical, proactive buyer who can manage complex supplier relationships, identify and mitigate supply risk, influence cross-functional partners, and communicate clear recommendations to leadership in a highly regulated manufacturing environment.

The ideal candidate operates with strong ownership and urgency in a high-complexity manufacturing environment, anticipates supply risk before it impacts production or service commitments, uses data to drive supplier accountability, and balances service, inventory, cost, and compliance in daily purchasing decisions.
This role supports purchasing activities within the Metals Commodity Purchasing team for the North American region, with direct ownership for key business growth families. Key responsibilities include partnering with Production Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Finance, and Global Sourcing to align material availability with committed build plans/ requirements.

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our local office in Maple Grove, MN (preferred) or Arden Hills, MN at least three days per week. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

• Supply Continuity and
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Own material availability for assigned commodities, suppliers, and part numbers; proactively identify supply constraints, assess business impact, develop mitigation plans, and elevate risks with clear options and recommendations.
• Supplier Execution and Performance:
  Manage supplier relationships to drive delivery, quality, responsiveness, and accountability; resolve supplier-related issues through root-cause analysis, corrective action, and cross-functional engagement with Global Sourcing, Quality, Engineering, and Manufacturing.
• Purchasing Execution:
  Generate, adjust, and expedite purchase orders based on MRP, authorized spend, & production priorities; track open orders, communicate constraints, and ensure timely follow-through on supplier commitments.
• Inventory Management:
  Manage moderate- to high-complexity commodities and expense items to balance service, inventory investment, safety stock, and total cost; identify and disposition expired, excess, and obsolete materials in alignment with business and compliance requirements.
• Cross-Functional Business Partnership:
  Partner with Production Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Finance, and Global Sourcing to…