Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Metals

CONMED Corporation • Largo, FL

1d • $123,800 - $157,900 • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Metals owns CONMED’s enterprise Metals category strategy and delivers measurable cost, continuity, supplier, and risk outcomes. The Metals portfolio is one of the most significant direct-material portfolios supporting CONMED’s Largo operation. The role calls for sustained stakeholder engagement, disciplined supplier management, ownership of critical escalations, and the ability to influence without direct authority and lead cross-functional solutions.

The position leads multi-year category strategy across suppliers, sites, functions, and business priorities; complex negotiations and commercial structures; cost and financial analysis; strategic supplier governance and development; and risk mitigation and supply-continuity planning. It works with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Planning, and R&D/NPI stakeholders, and connects category actions to financial outcomes. The role also integrates compliance, qualification, responsible sourcing, and supplier-accountability expectations into category strategy, and communicates recommendations and tradeoffs to leaders.

The role is based in Largo, Florida, and is listed as remote. It reports to the Director, Strategic Sourcing. The disclosed annual salary range is $123,800–$157,900; actual compensation may vary based on geographic location, work experience, education, and skill level. The position is not eligible for employer-based sponsorship.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 8 years of progressive strategic sourcing experience, including ownership of a significant direct-material category.
• At least 3 years of leadership experience.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or advanced degree.
• APICS/ASCM (CSCP, CPIM) or ISM (CPSM) certification.
• Deep knowledge of metal manufacturing processes, alloys, and global metals markets.
• Experience supporting product transfers, NPI, or manufacturing transformation programs.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, high-value negotiations and multi-year category strategies.
• Experience leading supplier escalations and continuity plans in a regulated manufacturing environment; medical device experience preferred.
• Advanced capability in should-cost modeling, TCO, commodity indexation, and financial analysis.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the multi-year enterprise Metals category strategy across suppliers, sites, functions, and business priorities, aligning category choices with CONMED transformation goals.
• Lead complex negotiations using commodity indices, should-cost models, benchmarking, and total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Design complex commercial structures, including indexation, capacity commitments, tooling ownership, long-term agreements, and balanced risk-sharing terms.
• Build and challenge should-cost, index, benchmark, TCO, purchase price variance, and financial scenario analyses to shape strategy and negotiations.
• Establish strategic-supplier governance, lead supplier recovery and development plans, and hold suppliers accountable for sustainable results.
• Anticipate commodity, capacity, quality, commercial, geopolitical, and continuity risks; lead critical supplier escalations with clear decision paths and recovery plans; and maintain executive-level continuity governance.
• Influence senior, cross-functional, and supplier stakeholders across Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Planning, and R&D/NPI; resolve competing priorities and lead decisions without direct authority.
• Anticipate qualification and compliance risk, and integrate responsible-sourcing and supplier-accountability expectations into category strategy.
• Connect category actions to financial outcomes and communicate investment, savings, cash, working-capital, and risk tradeoffs to leaders.
• Translate complex market, cost, supplier, and risk matters into concise, persuasive executive recommendations and maintain stakeholder confidence during critical escalations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance, fully paid by CONMED.
• Retirement Savings Plan (401K), with dollar-for-dollar matching and the potential for up to 7% per pay period.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with discounted stock purchases.
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate-level courses.
• Employee Referral Program incentives for eligible referrals.
• Competitive compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior