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 Join our Strategic Sourcing team as a Strategic Sourcing Program Manager, Metals for the Category Management team, where you will develop and execute strategic category objectives and provide the leadership for the categories managed by our global operations and supply chain teams. You will utilize your strong influential skills to work directly with the operating units, production facilities, R&D teams, Technical Sourcing teams, Operations Sourcing, and Supply Chain. You will lead category strategy, cost reduction initiatives, on-time delivery, quality, supplier performance, supplier rationalization, and improvements in supplier relationships, providing vast and varied exposure across multiple disciplines and operating units. 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. As the Strategic Sourcing Program Manager-Metals, you will have overall responsibility for leading a cross-functional, cross-divisional category team in the development and implementation of strategies for assigned commodities. You will support business objectives by driving improved supplier relationship management, enhanced service and quality assurance, advancing technology through R&D/new product development teams, reducing/mitigating risk, and delivering the lowest total cost of ownership. You will support an annual spend of over $150M, which, in addition to the metals category, includes our Wire and Wire Products category. You will lead and drive strategies that span the entire supply chain, including primary and sub-tier component suppliers. Supporting Supply Strategy Development & Commercial Agreements, you will: Support development & deployment of Global Metals category strategies. Create spend profiles for assigned sub-categories, including detailed purchasing data, supply chain mapping, projected volumes, life-cycle plans, raw materials, secondary operations, and manufacturing processes. Negotiate cross-operation network agreements with suppliers, including purchasing, development, supply, VMI, etc. Monitor agreements for compliance and drive supplier accountability. Partner closely with Medtronic's legal department to deliver the best in calls, working on contract terms/language. Driving Material Cost Optimization Roadmap Strategy & Innovation, you will: Drive year-over-year total cost of ownership improvement through negotiation, contract management, competitive bidding, should/cost analysis, supplier consolidation, and VA/VE. Execute sourcing events and manage the Request for Proposal process to ensure thorough, accurate supplier responses. Facilitate the resolution of technical and commercial questions throughout the process. Identify and appropriately leverage technology innovation from the category supply base. Utilize analytics & metrics to identify and organize suppliers accordingly. Supporting Supplier Performance & Relationship Management: Lead Supplier Relationship Management process to further leverage our strategic partnerships to achieve our goals and objectives. Lead efforts for supplier analysis, selection processes, make/buy, and business transitions. Develop market & category risk reduction strategies in partnership with each operating unit. Driving Supply & Supplier Market Intelligence: Develop and deploy Global market intelligence for Metals, including Precious Metals (Platinum, Iridium, and Gold), and provide insights to support network optimization opportunities. Research and analyze the supply marketplace, maintain a working knowledge of cost drivers, product/service pricing, market conditions, and identify new and/or alternate sources of supply