Sr Strategic Sourcing Mgr - IT Services
About The Position
At Medtronic, you will manage indirect categories for the largest medical device company in the world, with the purpose of knowing that the money saved is reinvested into technology that helps alleviate pain, restore health and extend lives of millions of patients across the world. The work done supports the Medtronic Mission and it matters. The Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, IT Services is part of the center-led Indirect Supply Management (ISM) organization responsible for managing and influencing approximately $250M in global IT Services spend. In this strategic leadership role, you will partner with senior stakeholders across Functions, Regions, and Businesses to drive enterprise value through category strategy, supplier partnerships, and commercial excellence. Reporting to the Global Indirect Supply Management Leader for IT Services, you will combine strategic category leadership with people leadership. You will lead and develop category sourcing professionals while shaping global sourcing strategies, negotiating complex agreements, and ensuring supplier partnerships deliver measurable business outcomes. As the Sr. Manager, you will serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders, influencing decision-making across a highly matrixed organization. Success in this role requires strong executive presence, strategic thinking, and the ability to translate business priorities into sourcing strategies that drive value, mitigate risk, and enable innovation. We bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Minimum of 7 years of strategic sourcing, procurement, or category management experience, including 5+ years of people leadership or team management experience or an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, including people leadership experience
Nice To Haves
- Deep experience in IT Services, IT Outsourcing (ITO), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), or Professional Services sourcing
- Demonstrated success managing people & teams, and influencing senior stakeholders in a global, matrixed organization
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
- Proven ability to lead complex negotiations and large-scale strategic sourcing initiatives
- Experience managing strategic supplier relationships and executive governance models
- Experience reviewing and negotiating complex commercial and legal agreements
- Strong analytical, financial, and program management capabilities
- Experience working in a large global organization with cross-regional sourcing responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy and execution for a global portfolio of approximately $250M in IT Services & IT Consulting spend
- Provide people leadership and talent development, including coaching, mentoring, and performance management for sourcing professionals
- Establish and drive global category strategies that deliver measurable improvements across cost, quality, innovation, and service levels
- Serve as a strategic advisor to senior business and IT leaders, aligning sourcing strategies with enterprise priorities and technology roadmaps
- Lead complex, high-value sourcing initiatives and RFx processes, negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements with global service providers
- Build and manage executive-level supplier relationships, partnering with the IT Vendor Management Office to ensure performance, accountability, and innovation from strategic suppliers
- Influence stakeholders across a highly matrixed global organization to adopt sourcing strategies, governance standards, and supplier management practices
- Partner with IT, Legal, Finance, and other functional leaders to structure commercial agreements that balance business needs, risk mitigation, and long-term value creation
- Leverage market intelligence and industry trends to identify opportunities for capability expansion, supplier innovation, and competitive advantage
- Lead cross-functional problem solving, identify improvement opportunities, and present strategic recommendations to senior leadership
- Champion best practices in Indirect Supply Management and promote adoption of sourcing processes, policies, and governance frameworks
Benefits
- Health, Dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
- Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
