Strategic Sourcing Program Manager-Electronic Assemblies

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America:
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Lafayette, Colorado, United States of America:
Galway, County Galway, Ireland time type:
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June 10, 2026 (7 days left to apply) job requisition :
R68333

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 10 Jun 2026

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
** Join our Global Supply Management team as a Category Manager-Electronic Assemblies, where you utilize your strong track record of delivering results in a matrixed organization, where collaboration with diverse individuals, teams, and skill sets is essential for success.
As the Category Manager-Electronic Assemblies, you will partner and lead several categories in electronics, including: PCBA, Power Management, Switch Assemblies, and other electronic assemblies categories. You will use your strong negotiation, technical, and relationship-building skills. As the Category Manager, you will understand global materials markets and possess technical aptitude in secondary processes to develop global strategies that leverage Medtronic’s global purchasing power and deliver cost-effective, innovative solutions to each operating unit within our network.

You'll focus on multiple tiers of your supplier’s supply chain to maximize leverage and awareness, ensuring compliance and continuity.
At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
As the Category Manager-Electronic Assemblies, you will:
* Lead category strategy development and execution, including best-cost-country sourcing, forward-buy agreements, and supplier innovation in collaboration with engineering and technical sourcing.
* Negotiate and manage supplier contracts that deliver sustained year-over-year improvements in cost, performance, quality, and delivery.
* Build and maintain strong supplier relationships, driving continuous improvement through regular business reviews, performance management, and supplier development initiatives.
* Develop and execute a robust cost-reduction pipeline using lean principles, should-costing, process improvements, tier-2 strategies, yield improvements, and supplier consolidation.
* Analyze markets, quotations, and supplier capabilities to select, recommend, and rationalize suppliers while mitigating supply chain risk and ensuring continuity.
* Leverage data, metrics, and business intelligence to optimize sourcing decisions, improve supplier performance, and independently drive new approaches on complex or strategic initiatives.
* Serve as a strategic advocate for the Supply Management function, partnering with business units and operations to enable and deliver core business objectives. Define and manage winning category strategies and approaches with suppliers.
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