Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Metals

CONMED Corporation • Largo, FL

6d • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Metals owns the 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. This role requires sustained stakeholder engagement, disciplined supplier management, ownership of critical escalations, and the ability to influence without direct authority and lead cross-functional solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive strategic sourcing experience, including ownership of a significant direct-material category.
• Minimum 3+ years of leadership experience.
• Strategic sourcing and negotiation excellence.
• Metals commodity expertise and market intelligence.
• Should-cost modeling and cost analytics.
• Supplier development and performance management.
• Manufacturing and engineering partnership.
• Regulatory compliance and supplier qualification.
• Risk mitigation and supply continuity planning.
• Sustainability and responsible sourcing.
• Financial acumen and advanced analytics.
• Contracting and commercial structuring.
• Strategic thinking and long-range planning.
• Cross-functional influence and collaboration.
• Managing ambiguity and risk-based decision-making.
• Results orientation and accountability.
• Executive communication and stakeholder influence.

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, connecting category choices to CONMED transformation goals.
• Lead complex negotiations using commodity indices, should-cost models, benchmarking, and total cost of ownership (TCO), with material business, continuity, and commercial implications.
• 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 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

• Competitive compensation.
• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance, with costs fully paid by CONMED.
• Retirement Savings Plan (401K), with dollar-for-dollar matching contributions and potential matching 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.

What This Job Offers

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