Senior Global Indirect Sourcing Manager

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Teleflex is the home of Arrow™, Barrigel™, Deknatel™, LMA™, Pilling™, Quik Clot™, Rüsch™, Uro Lift™ and Weck™ – trusted brands united by a common sense of purpose. At Teleflex, we are empowering the future of healthcare. For more information, please visit .

Global Operations - Global Operations is a complex and diverse organization within the company which is responsible for product fulfilment to all our customers from end to end. We pride ourselves on being totally Customer Centric in our unrelenting focus on Improving Quality, Service and Value as perceived by our customers. Our employees are dedicated to the Global Operations Enterprise Excellence journey.

Join a dynamic, growing team that offers healthcare providers an array of medical technology solutions that make a difference in patients’ lives.

The Senior Global Indirect Sourcing Manager position is a critical commercial leadership role that will serve multiple business units and a diverse mix of sites within specific regions (North America, Mexico and the European Union), while ensuring compliance to various corporate level-initiated activities. The position will drive and support Global Operations, while developing and implementing strategies for indirect materials and services, with specific focus on Marketing & Travel categories, that will reduce cost, improve quality & service levels, and mitigate risk to the overall enterprise.

Key responsibilities will include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Develop and implement global indirect sourcing strategies and budgets for Marketing & Travel categories that leverage the global spend of the enterprise to ensure proper economies of scale are achieved, while ensuring risk levels are appropriate and allow efforts to positively contribute to the business unit(s) and/or region in scope.
• Develop relationships with key personnel in strategic suppliers and internal stakeholders/customers
• Host regular teleconference/in-person meetings with suppliers
• Host Supplier Business Reviews with strategic suppliers
• Support site procurement teams on material shortage/service outages/escalations
• Support SQE teams with the resolution of supplier quality related and engineering issues
• Provide purchasing and sourcing support to multiple legal entities, business units, and departments including, but not limited to the following:
  Professional Services, Corporate Services, Finance, Facilities, Marketing, Engineering, Manufacturing and Human Resources.
• Lead contract negotiations, establish supply & service agreements and lead dispute resolution with our supply base, while ensuring proper communication and interaction with internal stakeholders.
• Support the implementation of all other business critical supplier documentation - Quality Agreements; LSAS;
  Conflict Materials
• Identify CIP/Process Improvement opportunities with suppliers
• Support NPI team on the identification and on-boarding of new suppliers in support of new projects through RFP’s and cost analysis.
• Maintain an ability to generate and evaluate alternatives, analyse data, reach logical conclusions, and formulate recommendations for management review and consideration.
• Support all corporate level purchasing related activities for the region to ensure compliance with internal procedures and policies as a publicly traded medical device manufacturer (Teleflex Code of Ethics, SOX, FDA, Conflict Minerals, etc.).
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• BS or BA degree in Business, Engineering, Science or a related field (MBA preferred)
• CPM or similar…