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

Medtronic

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress and deliver meaningful innovations.

Our Purpose

This Associate Strategic Sourcing Specialist will be located at Medtronic’s Parkmore Galway manufacturing site and will be one of the sourcing liaisons with Site Operations, Planning, Quality and Finance organizations in the resolution of supply-related issues.

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Medtronic seeks candidates who will meet our customer expectations by striving without reserve for the highest possible reliability and quality in our products, processes, and systems by being accountable, having a voice, and acting.

In this role, you will participate in operations sourcing strategic activities, especially those involving product life cycle and supplier management including but not limited to product/part phase in-phase, last time buy/strategic and excess & obsolete processes, local sourcing related initiatives, supplier delivery performance and inventory management. You will also support commodity management in pricing, terms & conditions, and quality agreements with key strategic suppliers.

A Day in The Life Of:

• Maintain and promote strong relationships with suppliers, Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing, Planning, Finance, Quality, Commodity Management, and any other internal customers.
• Provides project management and sourcing expertise to cross-functional, cross-divisional commodity teams.
• Facilitates these teams in the development and execution of long-term strategies that will optimise Medtronic's position in terms of quality, cycle/response time, technology, risk, and total cost.
• Use problem solving techniques/methodologies to identify supplier delivery root cause and achieve resolution of production continuity events.
• Mitigates risk, leverages technology and purchase power, improves processes and systems, and reduces overall cost of ownership and acquisition.
• Daily stand up at site production and tier meetings. Attend other staff meetings as needed.
• Performs special projects as assigned including but not limited to: Lifecycle Management, supports material cost reduction initiatives (Price Point Variance).
• Cash Flow Initiatives: Support the last time buy/strategic and excess & obsolete process and follow-up scrap disposition at sites and monitor.

Key Skills & Experience

• Requires broad theoretical job knowledge typically obtained through advanced education.
• Requires a minimum Level 7 degree in a relevant discipline with 0 years of experience required.

Nice to have

• Solid computer skills: i.e., SAP, Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project. Advanced Excel knowledge (VLOOKUP, pivot tables, formulas, macros, etc.).
• Solid knowledge of procurement/planning principles, regulations, theories, and processes.
• Exposure to supply chain, planning, purchasing, materials, and inventory control environment.

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.
 

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

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