Category Manager - Electronics at Medtronic in Lafayette, Colorado

Job Description:

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 8 Apr 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 Category Manager- electro-mechanical you will partner and lead several categories in electronics including: DC motors, blowers, fans and power supplies other electronic subassembly categories. You will utilize your strong negotiation skills, technical aptitude, and strong relationship building skills. As the Category Manager you will understand global markets of raw materials and possess technical aptitude on secondary processes to develop global strategies that leverage Medtronic's global purchasing power and deliver cost effective and innovative solutions to each operating unit within our network. In addition, you will focus on multiple tiers in their supplier's supply chain to maximize leverage and awareness to ensure compliance and continuity.

You will:

• Advocate on behalf of supply management function with business units and operational partners to ensure support for core business objectives


• Negotiate contracts that provide year-over-year benefits in performance


• Identify and develop business cases for a healthy year-over-year of cost reduction pipeline with suppliers through lean, should costing, process improvement, tier 2 strategies, and yield improvements


• Perform market analysis in identifying best cost country sourcing of said category, provide guidance to technical sourcing and engineering with supplier innovations, and proactively develop forward buy agreements where appropriate


• Define and manage winning category strategies and approaches with suppliers.


• Manage supplier relationships and drive year-over-year performance improvements with quality, delivery, costs


• Lead regular business reviews with suppliers


• Analyze received quotations, select or recommend new suppliers


• Rationalize existing supplier base through stratification, market analysis, supplier development, and supplier consolidation


• Support new and on-going supplier quality audit activities to ensure the supply base has robust process controls and capabilities to meet existing and future Medtronic business requirement


• Conduct supply chain risk reviews


• Act independently to prescribe methods and new approaches on new and special assignments


• Identify and utilize metrics, tools, business intelligence, and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities, and efficiencies, while working collaboratively with team members to prioritize and drive implementation.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required


• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Highly skilled in developing and executing on negotiation strategies with strong organization and collaboration skills


• Technical and commercial know-how of DC Motors commodity market trends and manufacturing process technologies of the category


• Skilled in developing category strategies, contract reviews, lean manufacturing, business case development, Best Cost Country (BCR) sourcing experience, and product/process transfer/change requirements in a regulatory environment, with strong presentation skills


• Experience using lean methodology processes in a manufacturing environment is a plus


• Experience in a low volume and high mix demand for products environment


• Negotiation, analytical and problem-solving skills


• Good organization, project management and follow-through skills


• Ability to prioritize, multitask and act in a proactive manner


• Microsoft, Excel, Analytics, and SAP experience preferred


• Ability to travel to vendor locations is required- domestic and international

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):$110,400.00 - $165,600.00

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).

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 95,000+ 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.