Unclassified - Irvine, CA
posted 3 months ago
At Medtronic, you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. As a Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist, you will play a crucial role in sourcing strategic activities, particularly those related to product life cycle and supplier management. This includes managing product/part phase in-phase, overseeing Last Time Buy processes, and addressing strategic and excess & obsolete processes. You will also be involved in local sourcing initiatives, supplier delivery performance, and inventory management. Your responsibilities will extend to supporting commodity management in pricing, terms & conditions, and quality agreements with key strategic suppliers. Based at Medtronic's manufacturing site in Irvine, CA, you will act as the Operations Sourcing liaison, collaborating closely with Site Operations, Planning, Quality, and Finance teams to resolve supply-related issues for the facility. This position requires you to be onsite in Irvine, CA, four days a week. Medtronic seeks candidates who are committed to meeting customer expectations by striving for the highest possible reliability and quality in products, processes, and systems. We value accountability, initiative, and a diverse workforce that brings fresh ideas and inclusive insights to our innovative industry leadership. In this role, you will foster and maintain strong relationships with various stakeholders, including Suppliers, Operations Scheduling, Supply Network Planning, Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, and Operations Quality. You will attend in-plant production meetings to report on key material issues, participate in Tier Escalation Meetings, and develop tools to identify and mitigate future component shortage risks. Effective communication about unmitigated component shortages will be essential to ensure operational mitigations are implemented, minimizing operational impact. You will also monitor and manage Strategic Inventory Purchases and Last Time Buys, provide updates on Purchase Price Variance reports, and collaborate with shared services to ensure supply continuity.