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Medtronic Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist in Heerlen, Netherlands
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
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We are looking for a Senior Strategic Sourcing Professional to join the Global Category Management team supporting Global Supply Chain for the market leader in medical device technology. This person will support Global Supply Chain Related Category Management. This person will work in strong partnership with the Global Category Directors for Transportation and Warehousing/Fulfillment, and with Medtronic’s Global and Regional Supply Chain Deliver teams. In this multi-faceted role, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the storage and delivery of life-changing technology and contribute directly to our company mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life.
We are looking for a Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist Professional to join the Global Category Management team supporting Global Supply Chain for the market leader in medical device technology. This person will support Global Supply Chain Related Category Management and be assigned a Global (sub) Category for Transportation, Warehousing and Fulfilment. This person will work in strong partnership with the Global Category Directors for Transportation and Warehousing/Fulfillment, and with Medtronic’s Global and Regional Supply Chain Deliver teams. In this multi-faceted role, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the storage and delivery of life-changing technology and contribute directly to our company mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree and at least 3 years of strategic sourcing experience in both Strategic Sourcing (Category Management) and Supply Chain (Transportation, Distribution including 3PL, and Trade Compliance) in a large, multi-divisional corporation
Experience in sourcing and driving/executing category strategies
Experience in forming and maintaining strategic partnerships
English language skills (verbal & written)
Strong analytical skills including Excel (pivots, lookups, basic formulas, etc.) and data visualization tools like Power BI
Strong negotiation skills
Proven proficiency in: Project Management, and the systems and tools used throughout Operations and Supply Management (e.g. Ariba, SAP, BU specific tools/systems etc.)
Awareness of technical aspects of procurement (such as use of data, special requirement development, cost comparison, should cost analysis, root cause/corrective action)
Track record in achieving cost savings and contract implementation and management
Knowledge of the Procure-to-Pay process
Previous roles in Global or Regional Transportation and Logistics Supply Chain
Experience implementing or supporting a TMS (Transportation Management System)
Experience with imperfect data and data quality enhancements
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.
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.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here (http://www.medtronic.com)
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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.
We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.
We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…
Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning
These commitments set our team apart from the rest:
Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care
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