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

Are you seeking for a career with purpose, working on groundbreaking medical technologies that directly improve outcome and quality of life of millions of Patients around the world ? Are you passionate about developing a high performing supplier base, and excited by the challenges of solving complex supply issues to ensure the best service to our Customers and Patients ?

Medtronic is seeking for a proactive and action-oriented Procurement professional with natural curiosity and passion for continuous improvement, to join our Global Supply Chain Management team as Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist for our Swiss Manufacturing Organization (SMO). In the role, you will be responsible for supply assurance, risks identification and mitigation, management of suppliers' operational performance, procurement aspects of components life cycle, and contribute to value optimization programs, for direct components entering our Products bill of materials.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Partner with suppliers and cross functional teams to ensure seamless operations, managing escalation process, solving complex real-time supply issues with impact to operations continuity ;

• Identify mid- and long-term business continuity risks within the supply base, define recommend and align strategies to prevent future supply disruptions, lead risks mitigation projects ;

• Drive Last Time Buy and Strategic Inventory Purchase activities to secure Products end of life and supply continuity ;

• Be responsible of supply base operational performance and metrics, manage suppliers’ performance reviews, lead supplier-specific performance improvement plans, negotiate and monitor execution of Service Level Agreements ;

• Foster a culture of continuous Improvement and Lean, driving progress in the supply base pertaining to Service, Quality, Cost and Cash ;

• Lead local execution of cost and cash optimization programs. Contribute to Products improvement, collaborating with various stakeholders such as Supplier Quality, Engineering, Global Category Management, VAVE and Suppliers Optimization teams to identify and execute value opportunities.

• Identify metrics, tools, and opportunities to optimize internal processes, supplier activities, efficiencies, and work collaboratively with stakeholders to prioritize and drive implementation.

Required knowledge and experience:

• Master's degree or Swiss Federal Diploma of Higher Education, in Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering or Business Administration ;

• 5-10 years of business experience in Procurement and Sourcing activities ;

• Fluency in French and English – oral and written ;

• Successful experience in driving supplier performance, issues resolution, and commercial negotiations, in a context of mono-sourced or inter-dependent supply base

• Organizational skills and attention to details while handling multiple ongoing projects ;

• Curiosity, initiative and autonomy, adopting a hands-on practical approach to solve short terms issues while seeking and implementing ways to optimize processes and performance on mid term.

• Strong interpersonal, communication, facilitation, and influencing / negotiation skills in a matrixed business environment.

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. 

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.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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 90,000+ 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 (http://www.medtronic.com)

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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 90,000+ 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.

We change lives . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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