Strategic Sourcing Specialist-Supply Chain-Remote

Strategic Sourcing Specialist-Supply Chain-Remote

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

This role is a member of the Contract Center of Excellence team within the Supply Management Solutions team of Medtronic's Global Supply Management Group. It reports to the Sr. Manager, Supply Management Solutions and will be exposed to a wide variety of contracting activities for many commodities and services supporting Medtronic strategic purchasing.

Responsibilities may include the following:

1. Provides contract management support to assigned categories within Supply Management; includes drafting contracts on standard templates, reviewing supplier red-lines with the legal team to ensure they meet guidelines, routing final contracts for signatures, and ensuring contracts are correctly archived in the Ariba Contract Management System.
2. Communicates status of contract requests with internal stakeholders and works to meet business objectives and timelines with a service mindset.
3. Mitigates risk, leverages technology and purchase power, improves processes and systems, and reduces overall cost of ownership and acquisition.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

Requires practical knowledge and demonstrated competence within job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A)) and a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with 0 years of experience. Experience with Ariba Contracts or another ERP contracting platform preferred. Experience with strategic sourcing and contracting, supplier relationship management, or other SAP Ariba applications are all a plus.

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.

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.

About Medtronic:

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life unites a global team of 90,000+ 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.