Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist – Contingent Labor presso Medtronic
Medtronic · Northridge, Stati Uniti d'America · Onsite
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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
Medtronic focuses on improving the lives of those within the global diabetes community. As a business, we strive to empower people with diabetes to live life on their terms by delivering innovation that truly matters and providing support in the ways they need it. We’re committed to meeting people with diabetes where they are on their journey, always with an aim to make their lives easier. Our portfolio of innovative solutions is designed to provide customers with greater freedom and better health, helping them achieve better glucose control while spending less time managing their disease.
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This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.
Medtronic is seeking a Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist for the Contingent Labor to join our Indirect Sourcing team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing the full procurement lifecycle for specified contingent labor categories.
- Act as the primary point of contact for staffing suppliers, ensuring adherence to SLAs, market rates, onboarding timelines, and compliance requirements.
- Provide consultancy to Medtronic managers; staffing strategy, day-to-day supplier management / issue resolution
- Review and qualify new requisitions prior to release/posting to staffing suppliers.
- Provide support and training to Hiring Managers through the entire Procure to Pay process related to Contingent Workers.
- Facilitate assignment changes (including extensions, transfers, backfills, etc.).
- Liaison between managers and supplier for coaching, ER issues, performance issues, furloughs.
- Manage On/Off Boarding process (terminations).
- Resolve operational issues related to worker engagement, timesheets, invoicing, and offboarding.
- Lead Q&A sessions between suppliers and Hiring Managers on requisitions.
- Manage tenure exception/negotiation process. Advice on conversion strategy
- Support audits, reporting, and data analysis related to contingent labor utilization/ spend.
- Negotiate rates with Suppliers to obtain fair market price for each position via a competitively bid program model.
- Develop proactive Supplier and Stakeholder relationships.
- Deliver comprehensive reporting (Standard & Ad-Hoc) to customers as requested or work with Program Reporting Analyst to submit requests and establish prioritization.
- Conduct ongoing user training for Medtronic users and suppliers.
- Pre ID Management
- Manage rate negotiations against internal job leveling guides and rates
- Ensure compliance to 60-day break policy for prior workers or returning employees
- Independent Contractor management.
- Educate managers on 1099 vs W2 laws and regulations
- Perform initial vetting and consulting for independent contractor requests
- Re-negotiate 1099 rates when the individual does not qualify
- Complete SOW configuration, updates and manage billing approvals
- Present, align, and implement business strategy changes. Where possible, benchmark with other companies to determine best overall practices for assigned commodity area.
- Monitor Supplier performance using scorecards; conduct regular business reviews to drive continuous improvement.
- Partnering with Talent Acquisition on conversion terms, timelines.
- Responsible for Contract Management Lifecycle.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Organizational Impact: Provides input to establishing project/program objectives. Recommends new policies and procedures as applicable.
Communication and Influence: Communicates and leads meetings with internal and external customers and vendors. Conducts briefings to higher level management as needed.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Supply Chain, or related field and 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
Nice to have
- Proficient using Microsoft products (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, MS Teams)
- Highly self-motivated and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
- Contingent staffing industry experience preferred
- Experience working with VMS (Vendor Management System) – VNDLY, Fieldglass, Beeline
- Full lifecycle recruiting experience
- Experience working in highly regulated industry (medical device, pharmaceutical, or life sciences industries is strongly preferred).
- Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and project management skills.
- Must be able to work onsite in Northridge, CA, 3 days a week.
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.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
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.
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
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 95,000+ 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.
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.
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