Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Metals
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 a significant direct-material portfolio supporting CONMED’s Largo operation. The 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. The position leads category strategy, complex negotiations, commercial structuring, advanced analytics, supplier governance, risk and escalation management, enterprise stakeholder influence, compliance and responsible sourcing, financial impact assessment, and executive communications. It partners with Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Planning, and R&D/NPI and reports to the Director, Strategic Sourcing.
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.
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, total cost of ownership, 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, addressing 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, total cost of ownership, 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 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
