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About the role
- Senior Manager in Sourcing overseeing global procurement strategies for sterilisation at Stryker. Leading category management and supplier negotiations with a strong focus on cost reduction and quality enhancement.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership of category strategy activities for Sterilisation for a significant portion of global category spend.
- Lead overall category direction and ensure effective strategy development and execution for the category portfolio.
- Develop a succession plan and onboard the talent needed to build a strong organisation.
- Partner and coordinate with Divisional Procurement, Supplier Quality, Global Engineering, Advanced Operations, Materials Management, Operations, Senior Leadership, Legal, and Compliance.
- Obtain the best Quality, Service, and Value for products and services through effective bidding, negotiation, and supplier management.
- Responsibility for leading cross-functional efforts to develop and implement Global Category Plans that include cost reduction initiatives, new product development, supply base and optimisation and rationalisation , quality improvement, risk assessment, contract negotiation, and may include responsibility for cross-divisional, group-wide , and/or global strategies and initiatives.
- Resident expert in strategic sourcing and procurement practices and serves as a mentor to others.
- Engagement at all levels within the organisation to drive change engagement and ensure the actions and decisions are aligned to the broader category strategy.
- Lead the development and implementation of enterprise-wide strategies and goals for assigned commodities in support of overall divisional business objectives.
- Drive year-over-year productivity improvements and cost savings while maintaining or enhancing quality, compliance, and service levels.
- Collaborate with Global Sterilisation Services, Engineering and Finance to enhance processes and governance frameworks that clearly demonstrate the long-term strategic and financial value of indirect procurement initiatives.
- Establish and maintain contractual and business relationships with the senior management of key suppliers.
- Champion supplier-enabled innovation in sterilisation technologies and support sustainability and regulatory compliance goals.
- Lead critical program initiatives.
- Formulate and implement processes to build a best-in-class strategic sourcing organisation.
- Lead sourcing analysis and selection process and perform cost analyses and make vs buy analyses as required.
- Advise others on selection/cost analysis.
- Align on strategic investments for new technologies or capabilities externally at suppliers and internally with R&D or Business Development Teams.
- Negotiate, establish , monitor, and enforce supplier contracts and agreements.
- Drive negotiation with large-scale , high-impact suppliers.
- Develop strong partnership relationships with key suppliers as well as other disciplines within the businesses.
- Mobilise teams to deploy risk mitigation strategies, including dual sourcing, IP acquisition, market assessments, suppliers' financial assessments, social responsibility, environment, ethics etc.
- Partner with finance to drive total cost of ownership strategies and react to changing market conditions.
- Obtain and communicate market condition information and technology trends related to commodities and suppliers.
- Utilise market trends to identify and implement appropriate cost controls and business strategy changes.
- Ensure cost standards are established for annual operating budgets.
- Organise and lead scorecard review meetings and executive business reviews.
Requirements
- 8-10 years of / Sourcing / Procurement Supply chain experience, preferably in medical devices or other highly regulated environments.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, supply chain, operations or equivalent.
- Prior experience within sterilisation is preferred.
- Strategic thinker – understands the details but can operate at a higher level.
- Strong leadership & interpersonal skills with the ability to engage & influence senior stakeholders.
- Strong leadership and talent management skills.
- Experience with world-class strategic sourcing & category management practices.
- Strong negotiation skills, negotiating and implementing commercial contracts to include supply and quality agreements (QAA).
- Strong written & verbal communication skills across all levels.
- Ability to multi-task and coordinate initiatives with a virtual, global/regional team.
- Persuasive ‘change agent’ capable of challenging conventional wisdom.
- Track record of success in capturing value and driving spend to preferred suppliers.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and improve vendor performance.
- Hands-on mentality.
- Ability to align with peers / stakeholders and build and maintain strong networks.
- Must be willing to work in a results-based, fast-paced environment, with minimal supervision.
- Travel: 30-40%.
Benefits
- Work Flexibility: Not available
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