Sr. Strategic Sourcing Director
About The Position
Lead strategic partnerships that enable MiniMed to deliver therapies to patients worldwide. This senior sourcing role shapes strategy for critical contract manufacturing, OEM, and sterilization service relationships, ensuring the capacity, performance, and resilience needed to support growth and innovation. The position influences executive-level decisions, drives operational excellence, and helps bring new products from launch to scale. The role provides project management and sourcing expertise to cross-functional, cross-divisional commodity teams and facilitates development and execution of long-term strategies to optimize quality, cycle and response time, technology, risk, and total cost. It mitigates risk, leverages technology and purchasing power, improves processes and systems, and reduces total cost of ownership and acquisition. The position negotiates, establishes, and monitors supplier performance and compliance with agreements, partnering with suppliers to deliver value through quality, delivery, and cost.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline and 15 or more years of progressive experience in global supply chain or logistics, plus 10 or more years of managerial experience; alternatively, an advanced degree in one of these fields and 10 or more years of progressive experience in global supply chain or logistics, plus 10 or more years of managerial experience.
Nice To Haves
- Global experience across multiple regions, including North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.
- Demonstrated experience executing global distribution center (DC) network initiatives.
- Experience working in regulated environments, preferably medical device, pharmaceutical, or healthcare.
Responsibilities
- Manage supplier relationships and executive partnerships with contract manufacturers.
- Manage commercial agreements and contractual obligations.
- Drive supplier performance, business reviews, and accountability.
- Promote operational excellence and continuous improvement.
- Plan capacity and ensure launch and ramp readiness.
- Develop manufacturing footprint and partner strategy.
- Manage supplier risk and business continuity.
- Provide project management and sourcing expertise to cross-functional, cross-divisional commodity teams.
- Facilitate the development and execution of long-term strategies optimizing quality, cycle and response time, technology, risk, and total cost.
- Mitigate risk, leverage technology and purchasing power, improve processes and systems, and reduce overall cost of ownership and acquisition.
- Negotiate, establish, and monitor supplier performance and compliance with agreements.
- Partner with suppliers to deliver value through quality, delivery, and cost.
Benefits
- 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 (eligible employees, subject to IRS minimum earnings requirements)
- Capital Accumulation Plan (eligible employees, subject to IRS minimum earnings requirements)
- Flexible benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
