We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 23 Sep 2025

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Join our Operations Sourcing team as a Strategic Sourcing Program Manager, where you utilize your strong track record of delivering results in a matrixed organization, where collaboration with diverse individuals, teams, and skill sets is essential for success.

Based at Medtronic’s Boulder, Colorado, manufacturing site, you will identify, implement, and align global sourcing strategies, supplier risk mitigation projects, capacity, and continuous improvement plans to achieve business objectives. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring supply chain stability and driving margin enhancement.

We seek candidates who will meet our customer expectations by striving without reserve for the highest possible reliability and quality in our products, processes, and systems by being accountable, having a voice, and taking action.

At Medtronic, 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.

As the Strategic Sourcing Program Manager, you will:

• Develop and implement Operations Sourcing programs to boost supplier delivery performance, measured by Supplier On Time in Full metrics.

• Ensure supply continuity and mitigate supplier risks that impact production continuity at the Boulder manufacturing plant.

• Drive and lead negotiations with suppliers regarding supply continuity, capacity expansion, supplier performance, and cost reduction opportunities.

• Execute Portfolio Component Assessments and risk reduction projects with suppliers.

• Enhance Escalation and Tier Management processes in line with MPS guidelines.

• Serve as an escalation point for the Purchasing team to resolve critical supply issues, avoiding production impacts at the Boulder manufacturing site.

• Drive improvements in Operations Sourcing standard work around functional excellence and zero-loss mindsets.

• Foster and maintain strong relationships with Suppliers, Operations Scheduling, Supply Network Planning, Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Operations Quality, Category Management, and other internal stakeholders.

• Support supplier cost negotiations VMI/SMI contracts to achieve cost reduction and inventory targets.

Must-Have: Minimum Requirements

• A bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant supply chain experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant supply chain experience.

Nice to Have

• Strong understanding of supply chain, planning, purchasing, materials, and inventory control environment

• Experience in leading and influencing negotiations, project management, troubleshooting, problem-solving analysis, strategic thinking, and collaborative team building.

• Proven project management experience, PMP certification a plus.

• Experience with supplier transfers and building phase-in, phase-out material plans.

• Strong computer and business analytical skills: i.e., Power BI, Blue Yonder, Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Project. Advanced Excel knowledge (vlookup, pivot tables, formulas, macros, dashboards)

• Proven communication, leadership, and interpersonal and team-building skills

• Influencing skills to achieve results across a matrixed and virtual organization.

• Experience in the medical device industry with knowledge of applicable FDA/GMP and International medical device regulations and standards.

• Working knowledge of Demand Flow, JIT, K-Loop, Lean Manufacturing

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$110,400.00 - $165,600.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.