Category Manager-Electronic Assemblies

Medtronic • Minneapolis, MN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Join our Global Supply Management team as a Category Manager-Electronic Assemblies, where you utilize your strong track record of delivering results in a matrixed organization, where collaboration with diverse individuals, teams, and skill sets is essential for success. As the Category Manager-Electronic Assemblies, you will partner and lead several categories in electronics, including: Embedded Computers, Displays, PCBA, PCBs, Power Management, Semiconductors, and other electronic assemblies categories. You will use your strong negotiation, technical, and relationship-building skills. As the Category Manager, you will understand global materials markets and possess technical aptitude in secondary processes to develop global strategies that leverage Medtronic’s global purchasing power and deliver cost-effective, innovative solutions to each operating unit within our network. You'll focus on multiple tiers of your supplier’s supply chain to maximize leverage and awareness, ensuring compliance and continuity. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience
• Strong knowledge of Electronics & Electronic Assemblies and Suppliers

Nice To Haves

• Proven expertise in developing and executing effective negotiation strategies, with strong analytical, problem‑solving, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
• Solid technical and commercial understanding of commodity markets, manufacturing process technologies, and category‑specific cost and performance drivers.
• Demonstrated experience developing category strategies, building business cases, reviewing contracts, and leading Best‑Cost‑Country sourcing initiatives within a regulated environment.
• Working knowledge of lean manufacturing principles and process improvement methodologies, preferably applied in a manufacturing setting.
• Experience supporting low‑volume, high‑mix product environments, including product and process transfers or changes.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to prioritize, multitask, and proactively drive work to completion.
• Proficiency with Microsoft tools (including Excel), analytics platforms, and SAP preferred; ability to travel domestically and internationally to supplier locations as required.
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead category strategy development and execution, including best-cost-country sourcing, forward-buy agreements, and supplier innovation in collaboration with engineering and technical sourcing.
• Negotiate and manage supplier contracts that deliver sustained year-over-year improvements in cost, performance, quality, and delivery.
• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships, driving continuous improvement through regular business reviews, performance management, and supplier development initiatives.
• Develop and execute a robust cost-reduction pipeline using lean principles, should-costing, process improvements, tier-2 strategies, yield improvements, and supplier consolidation.
• Analyze markets, quotations, and supplier capabilities to select, recommend, and rationalize suppliers while mitigating supply chain risk and ensuring continuity.
• Leverage data, metrics, and business intelligence to optimize sourcing decisions, improve supplier performance, and independently drive new approaches on complex or strategic initiatives.
• Serve as a strategic advocate for the Supply Management function, partnering with business units and operations to enable and deliver core business objectives.
• Define and manage winning category strategies and approaches with suppliers.

Benefits

• 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
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• 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)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees