Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist-Transportation at Medtronic in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Job Description:

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 19 Nov 2024

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
We are seeking a Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist-Transportation to join the Global Category Management team supporting the Global and Regional Supply Chain Deliver teams. As part of the Indirect Supply Management organization, you will lead sourcing efforts for the Transportation, Warehousing, and Fulfillment categories. In this multi-faceted role, you will have the opportunity to significantly impact the storage and delivery of life-changing technology and contribute directly to our company mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.
As the Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist-Transportation, you will lead and support RFP strategies and processes across multiple modes of transportation, along with warehousing and fulfillment, globally, including the strategic negotiations for the category. Utilizing your deep understanding of economics and market conditions, ensuring strategies are deployed to mitigate cost and impacts to quality and service, you will:

• Lead supplier analysis and selection processes, make/buy, outsourcing, and transitions required to support the category strategy.


• Deploy all relevant indirect sourcing levers, including rate negotiation, demand reduction, specification management, and increasing spend under mgmt.


• Identify and appropriately leverage technology innovation from the supply base.


• Use and develop analytics and metrics to identify, organize, and measure suppliers and create value-creation opportunities.


• Support leadership goals to develop and manage strategic alliances for key spending areas


• Support the functional requirements of quality and service, ensuring the supply base has the capability and capacity to support Medtronic's growth.


• Work in conjunction with the Center of Excellence team to deploy SRM programs and other best practices for all relevant suppliers across Medtronic.


• Conduct regular reviews of logistics financial results and provide input into the financial forecasting process.


• Prepare, manage, and analyze transportation cost optimization projects while driving best practices in transportation for sourcing and global freight operations.


• Utilize Lean methodologies to identify and eliminate waste in the value chain.


• Provide options and recommendations to the business to balance cost, service, and inventory objectives.


• Participate in contingency planning and risk management activities.


• Manage relationships with Operational Network supply chain leaders, manufacturing sites, and DC operations.

Must-Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required


• Minimum of 4 years of relevant sourcing experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant sourcing experience

Nice to Have

• Knowledge and expertise regarding multiple modes of transportation (Parcel, Airfreight & Ocean freight (FCL/LCL), Truckload/Less-than-Truckload, Courier), Brokerage Services, and 3PL Warehousing


• Experience in working with ERPs (preferably SAP). Experience implementing or supporting a TMS (Transportation Management System)


• Experience with working with modern Sourcing Tools such as Ariba Guided Buying and Transporeon Sourcing Optimizer


• MBA or master's in supply chain


• Knowledge of working in FDA-regulated industries


• Accreditation in procurement, such as CIPS / CPM or relevant equivalent working experience


• Track record in achieving cost savings, contract implementation, and management


• Knowledge of the Procure-to-Pay process


• Previous roles in Global or Regional Transportation and Logistics Supply Chain


• Previous experience in operational optimization or supply chain project management

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):$82,400.00 - $123,600.00

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).

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here .

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.