Procurement Category Specialist responsible for strategic sourcing initiatives at NOV Corporate Procurement Team in Houston, Texas. Collaborating with internal stakeholders and suppliers to bring value to the organization.
About the role
- Senior Strategic Sourcing Project Specialist at Medtronic managing supply sourcing projects to enhance global operations. Collaborating with category management teams and stakeholders to drive economic value.
Responsibilities
- Identify, lead, and execute projects that deliver economic value to the global Operations Networks
- Conduct complex analysis of sourcing information for process improvement while maintaining high-quality product and service delivery.
- Partner closely with the center-led category managers to understand and implement key pan-Medtronic strategies.
- Represent and share network and site-specific requirements and strategies with the center-led category management organization.
- Partner closely with key functions that support supply management (e.g., legal, finance, quality/compliance)
- Ensure that manufacturing sites are being adequately supported; this includes but is not limited to consistent engagement with key stakeholders, developing and sharing dashboards with information on key metrics at a defined cadence, conducting site-level diagnostics and leading workshops to identify savings opportunities, managing supplier quality, and ensuring supply continuity.
- Facilitate the supplier capacity assurance process, including providing capacity guidance to suppliers, analyzing, and proposing potential solutions for capacity constraints, and facilitating allocation discussions if required.
- Build strong supplier relationships; serve as primary contact for issue resolution with suppliers.
- Develop robust data gathering and data quality maintenance protocols to ensure spend transparency and support the development of a baseline for sourcing cost reduction efforts.
- Initiate and implement appropriate category strategy change
- Create and establish internal and external benchmark analysis, including gap analysis, and required actions to achieve functional advantage.
- Lead supplier negotiation efforts
- Manage strategic supplier contracts
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and minimum 4 years of strategic sourcing experience in Strategic Sourcing including Supply Chain projects in a multi-divisional corporation
- Experience in indirect sourcing and executing the category strategies
- Strong stakeholders’ management skills to be a recognized Trusted Advisor
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong negotiation skills
- Strong supplier management skills
- Project management skills
- Track record in achieving cost savings and contract management
- Knowledge of the Procure-to-Pay process
- Additional language skills (verbal & written) are a plus
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Short-term incentive plan
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