Senior Director, Category Management – Electronics & Electronic Assemblies at Medtronic in Mounds View, Minnesota

Job Description:

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Mar 2025

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
As the Sr. Director, Category Management-Electronics & Electronic Assemblies, you will manage, identify, implement, and align global sourcing strategies and global supplier network capabilities for Electronics & Electronic Assemblies to achieve business objectives. Through strategic leadership, you will facilitate Operation Networks discussions that will optimize the commodity in terms of quality, service, technology, market intelligence, risk, and total cost of ownership for Medtronic's Electronics & Electronics Assemblies Tier 1 and Tier 2 spend of $1B.

Partnering closely with Medtronic's Supply Management Operations Sourcing and Technical Sourcing organizations, you will work to leverage cross Operations Network strategies at an enterprise level and continuously work to develop and improve leveraging opportunities by consolidating spend with key business partners supporting the broader interests of Medtronic. In addition, you will leverage strategic sourcing processes across Medtronic by maximizing the company's combined purchase power to reduce the overall cost of ownership and acquisition through strategic negotiations and optimize supplier relationship management opportunities through partnerships within their primary categories of oversight.
At Medtronic, we not only get the opportunity to manage strategic projects for the largest medical device company in the world, but we also get to experience the immense sense of purpose that comes from knowing that the projects we drive enable reinvestment directly into technology that helps alleviate pain, restore health, and extend lives of millions of patients across the world. The work we do supports the Medtronic Mission, and it matters.

As the Sr. Director, Category Management-Electronics & Electronic Assemblies, you will:

• Establish the strategy for the respective $1B electronic & electronic assemblies category spend.


• Lead the development, execution, and implementation of sourcing and supply management strategies that align with Corporate, Operating Units, and Operation Platforms objectives.


• Optimize performance through the appropriate organization model, institutionalize the strategic sourcing process, deploy enterprise-wide metrics and tools, and establish a high-performance culture.


• Lead supplier cost-down deliverables to support Medtronic's Operation YoY cost improvement objectives as well as supplier strategies development that segments suppliers, assesses and governs performance, rationalizes the supply base, and drives continuous improvement.


• Monitor supply contract maintenance and negotiations (CDAs, supply agreements, etc.), ensuring alignment with current business requirements.


• Lead complex/critical negotiations with the Senior Executive of suppliers (C-Suite)


• Establish a foundation of excellence and competitive advantage through strong strategic supplier relationships.


• Lead cross-network negotiations and supplier relationship management.


• Work with internal and external resources, driving commodity rationalization, simplification, and localization.


• Lead efforts for category/supplier analysis, selection processes, make/buy, outsourcing, & business transitions.


• Global market intelligence for the Electronics category and provides insights to support supply optimization opportunities.


• Develop talent and manage performance. This includes individual development planning, mentoring, succession planning, and creating a positive working environment that enables inclusion, high productivity, and employee engagement.

Must Have:

• Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 15 years of relevant experience in a large, mulit-divisional corporation with 10+ years of managerial experience , or advanced degree with a minimum 13 years prior relevant experience, minimum of 10 years of managerial experience.


• Ten (10) plus years of progressive experience working in a world-class supply management organization.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in a highly regulated industry, preferably medical, with global manufacturing


• Fifteen (15) plus years of progressive experience working in a world-class sourcing/procurement organization with a focus on operational excellence


• Global enterprise experience with a demonstrated process and productivity improvement track record and successful results in developing and implementing change initiatives in supplier assessment, audit & qualification.


• Demonstrated knowledge of process improvement methodologies, including lean and Six Sigma. Green Belt or Black Belt in Lean/Six Sigma preferred


• Experience developing and operationalizing strategy.


• Ability to lead change in a complex environment.


• Strong facilitation, influencing, organizing, and presentation/communication skills.


• Proven ability to achieve results through building partnerships and influence skills.


• Experience in forming and maintaining strategic alliances.


• Experience in cross-functional commodity teams.


• CPM, CPIM, and/or APICS certification


• Knowledge of e-commerce initiatives


• Strategic Planning, including outsourcing strategy development


• Highly developed negotiation, project management, and change management


• Contract Manufacturing knowledge


• Best Cost Country sourcing experience

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):$196,800.00 - $295,200.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan.

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico. Base pay is based on numerous factors and may vary by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, etc. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance , Health Savings Account , Healthcare Flexible Spending Account , Life insurance, Long-term disability leave , Dependent daycare spending account , Tuition assistance/reimbursement , and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match , Short-term disability , Paid time off , Paid holidays , Employee Stock Purchase Plan , Employee Assistance Program , Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) , and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

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.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. ("Medtronic") in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.