Sr. Director Indirect Strategic Sourcing

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 16 Nov 2026

About the Role

At MiniMed, every decision we make is driven by our mission to make every day a better day for people living with diabetes. As Sr. Director, Indirect Strategic Sourcing, you will play a critical role in advancing that mission by unlocking resources, driving enterprise-wide transformation, and enabling investments that fuel innovation, improve patient outcomes, and support sustainable growth. This is an opportunity to lead bold change and redefine how the organization creates value through strategic sourcing, supplier partnerships, and operational excellence. If you're energized by making a measurable impact and driving meaningful results, we invite you to help shape the future of diabetes care.
Key Responsibilities:

• Drive Enterprise Value: Lead aggressive cost transformation across all indirect spend categories, delivering measurable savings, cost avoidance, productivity improvements, and sustainable financial results.
• Build Strategic Supplier Partnerships: Rationalize the supply base, establish high-value supplier relationships, and hold suppliers accountable for competitive pricing, service performance, innovation, and continuous productivity improvements.
• Transform Category Strategies: Develop and execute comprehensive category strategies that go beyond price negotiations to challenge demand, optimize specifications, consolidate suppliers, and redesign commercial models.
• Drive Sourcing Excellence rigor for indirect: Build a high-performance sourcing organization that leverages competitive market intelligence, advanced negotiation strategies, supplier economics, and innovative sourcing approaches.
• Own Enterprise-Wide Indirect Spend: Provide strategic leadership across IT and Digital, professional services, contingent labor, facilities, MRO, marketing, travel, capital services, and other enterprise categories.
• Spend Management: Partner with functional executives to eliminate unnecessary spending, optimize consumption, standardize services, and improve enterprise purchasing decisions across all categories.
• Financial Accountability: Establish a robust, Finance-validated savings pipeline with clear ownership, measurable milestones, and demonstrated P&L impact.
• Influence Enterprise Leadership: Challenge conventional spending practices and partner with senior executives to drive difficult decisions, organizational change, and adoption of new operating models.
• Accelerate Procurement Transformation: Leverage analytics, AI, automation, and digital capabilities to improve sourcing effectiveness, spend visibility, compliance, and team productivity.

Leadership Expectations:

• Proven track record delivering significant, measurable indirect procurement savings through large-scale transformation programs.
• Deep expertise across multiple indirect categories, including IT and Digital, professional services, contingent labor, and enterprise services.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge business demand, redesign commercial models, and influence senior functional leaders.
• Strong financial acumen, including savings validation, business case development, and translating procurement initiatives into measurable business results.
• Experience building and leading high-performing global category management and strategic sourcing teams.
• Strong executive presence, commercial negotiation capabilities, and a results-driven leadership style.
• Demonstrated success driving organizational change in complex, global, matrixed environments.
• Must have an extreme bias for action with a high "say do ratio"

Must Have Minimum Qualifications:

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related discipline and 15+ years of progressive experience in global supply chain or logistics and 10+ years managerial experience

OR

Advanced degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related discipline and 13+ years of progressive experience in global supply chain or logistics and 10+ years managerial experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Global experience across multiple regions (North America, EMEA, APAC, LATAM)
• Demonstrated experience executing global DC network initiatives
• Experience working in regulated environments (medical device, pharmaceutical, or healthcare preferred)

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

MiniMed offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package

At MiniMed, we put people first. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values: We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every stage of your career and life.
Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$178,000.00-$302,000.00
For roles located in California, Seattle WA, Washington DC, Boston MA, and New York City, the salary range is $198,000.00 - $336,000.00 USD.

Actual compensation may vary based on factors including experience, education, certifications, skills, market conditions, internal equity, and geographic location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

At MiniMed, we are committed to supporting the well-being and financial security of our employees. Regular employees working 20 or more hours per week are eligible for a robust benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance, as well as access to a Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, life insurance, long-term disability leave, and a dependent daycare spending account. In addition, all regular employees enjoy incentive plans, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term disability coverage, paid time off and holidays, participation in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and access to our Employee Assistance Program. Eligible employees may also benefit from our Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement and Capital Accumulation Plan, subject to IRS minimum earnings requirements. Please note that "regular employees" refers to those who are not temporary staff, such as interns, and some benefits may not apply to employees in Puerto Rico.

For further details about our comprehensive benefits, we encourage you to visit the link below.

MiniMed Benefits Overview