Senior Category Manager for Plastics Molding

3 weeks ago


Fort Worth, Texas, United States Medtronic Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Category Manager for Plastics Molding to join our team at Medtronic. As a key member of our Global Sourcing team, you will be responsible for developing and executing category strategies that drive cost savings, improve quality, and enhance supplier relationships.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage a $200M annual spend on injection molded parts and assemblies
  • Develop and gain business alignment for category strategies
  • Execute category strategies and continuous category strategy adjustments and reviews with internal and external stakeholders
  • Conduct global market intelligence for the Specialty Materials category and provide insights to support network optimization opportunities
  • Negotiate contracts that provide year-over-year performance benefits
  • Identify and develop business cases for a healthy year-over-year cost reduction pipeline with suppliers
  • Perform market analysis to identify the best cost country sourcing of category
  • Manage Molding suppliers' relationships and drive year-over-year performance improvements with quality, delivery, and costs
  • Rationalize existing supplier base through stratification, market analysis, supplier development, and Supplier consolidation
  • Lead new and ongoing supplier audit activities to ensure the supply base has robust process controls and capabilities to meet existing and future Medtronic business requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Minimum of 7 years of relevant category management experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant category management experience in a large, multi-divisional corporation
Preferred Qualifications
  • Minimum of 7 years of sourcing in Plastics and/or Molding with strong negotiation experience
  • Strong history of continuous learning about the market, category, and economic/technological developments
  • Knowledge of Injection molding process, Resin industries, and Molding technologies
  • Experience in cross-functional commodity teams
  • Master's Degree and/or Business/Engineering Degree
  • CPIM, CPSM Certification
  • Knowledge of e-commerce initiatives
  • Knowledge of FDA-regulated industries, preferably the medical device industry
  • Intermediate level of economics knowledge and expertise
  • Experience in forming and maintaining strategic alliances


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