Sr. Director Indirect Strategic Sourcing
About The Position
The Sr. Director, Indirect Strategic Sourcing will lead enterprise-wide indirect procurement transformation at MiniMed, unlocking resources and enabling investments that support innovation, patient outcomes, and sustainable growth. The role is responsible for creating value through strategic sourcing, supplier partnerships, and operational excellence across indirect spend categories. The position leads cost transformation and develops category strategies that address demand, specifications, supplier consolidation, and commercial models. It builds strategic supplier relationships and a high-performance sourcing organization, and provides leadership across IT and Digital, professional services, contingent labor, facilities, MRO, marketing, travel, capital services, and other enterprise categories. The role partners with functional executives and Finance to improve spending decisions, validate savings, and demonstrate P&L impact. It also uses analytics, AI, automation, and digital capabilities to improve sourcing effectiveness, spend visibility, compliance, and team productivity. The role requires a proven record of measurable indirect procurement savings, deep expertise across multiple indirect categories, financial acumen, executive influence, and experience leading global sourcing and category-management teams through change in complex, matrixed environments. Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's degree and 15+ years of progressive global supply chain or logistics experience, or an advanced degree and 13+ years of such experience; both paths require 10+ years of managerial experience.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, with 15+ years of progressive experience in global supply chain or logistics and 10+ years of managerial experience; or an advanced degree in one of these fields with 13+ years of progressive experience and 10+ years of managerial experience.
- Proven track record delivering significant, measurable indirect procurement savings through large-scale transformation programs.
- Deep expertise across multiple indirect categories, including IT and Digital, professional services, contingent labor, and enterprise services.
- Demonstrated ability to challenge business demand, redesign commercial models, and influence senior functional leaders.
- Strong financial acumen, including savings validation and business case development, and ability to translate procurement initiatives into measurable business results.
- Experience building and leading high-performing global category-management and strategic-sourcing teams.
- Strong executive presence, commercial negotiation capabilities, and a results-driven leadership style.
- Demonstrated success driving organizational change in complex, global, matrixed environments.
- Extreme bias for action and a high “say do ratio.”
Nice To Haves
- Global experience across multiple regions, including North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.
- Demonstrated experience executing global DC network initiatives.
- Experience working in regulated environments, preferably medical device, pharmaceutical, or healthcare.
Responsibilities
- Lead cost transformation across indirect spend categories, delivering measurable savings, cost avoidance, productivity improvements, and sustainable financial results.
- Rationalize the supply base and build strategic supplier relationships, holding suppliers accountable for pricing, service performance, innovation, and continuous productivity improvements.
- Develop and execute category strategies that challenge demand, optimize specifications, consolidate suppliers, and redesign commercial models.
- Build a high-performance indirect sourcing organization using market intelligence, advanced negotiation strategies, supplier economics, and innovative sourcing approaches.
- Provide strategic leadership for IT and Digital, professional services, contingent labor, facilities, MRO, marketing, travel, capital services, and other enterprise categories.
- Partner with functional executives to eliminate unnecessary spending, optimize consumption, standardize services, and improve enterprise purchasing decisions.
- Establish a Finance-validated savings pipeline with clear ownership, measurable milestones, and demonstrated P&L impact.
- Partner with senior executives to challenge spending practices, drive difficult decisions and organizational change, and adopt new operating models.
- Use analytics, AI, automation, and digital capabilities to improve sourcing effectiveness, spend visibility, compliance, and team productivity.
- Build and lead high-performing global category-management and strategic-sourcing teams.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Health Savings Account.
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account.
- Life insurance.
- Long-term disability leave.
- Dependent daycare spending account.
- Incentive plans.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Short-term disability coverage.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement for eligible employees.
- Capital Accumulation Plan for eligible employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
