Senior Category Manager - Pleasanton, CA
$180,000–$190,000 year
On-site · Pleasanton, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior Category Manager, Sustaining responsible for driving sourcing and supplier strategies within a regulated medical-device environment, owning multi-year category strategies, and serving as primary relationship manager for strategic suppliers and contract manufacturers. Partners with Product, R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, S&OP, and Commercial teams to ensure robust sources of supply, optimal supplier mix, and lifecycle support from NPD through production. Requires hands-on project leadership, risk identification/mitigation, and continuous improvement across the supply base; role emphasizes quality, risk mitigation, and cost improvement with scalability.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of sourcing / procurement experience in a Medical Device industry
- Proven experience managing a Direct Spend category such as raw materials and components
- Experience working with Contract Manufacturing
- Catheter based medical device experience a strong plus
- Strong project management skills
- Continuous improvement experience, experience with building new processes
- Self-starter, demonstrated ability operate and excel in ill-defined environments requiring structure
- Excellent business partner engagement skills, influencing will be a key component of this role
- Ability to navigate through a matrixed organization
- Global experience a plus
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