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**Careers that Change Lives**As the Principal Strategic Sourcing Specialist, you will be located at Medtronic's El Lago, Tijuana, Mexico manufacturing site and will be the Sourcing liaison with Site Operations, Planning, Quality and Finance organizations in the resolution of supply related issues.
**This role will be expected to sit onsite in El Lago, Tijuana, MEX approximately 2-3 days a week.
**We seek out and hire a diverse workforce at every level: We need fresh ideas and inclusive insights to continue to be an innovative industry leader —that's why we make it a point to seek out, attract and develop employees who are patient-centric, passionate, and who represent the same wide variety of life experiences as our patients.
**A Day in the Life**In this role, you will participate and/or lead Sourcing strategic activities, especially those involving product life cycle and supplier management including but not limited to: product/part phase in-phase, Last time buy/Strategic and excess & obsolete processes, local sourcing related initiatives, supplier delivery performance and inventory management.
You will also support commodity management in pricing, terms & conditions, and quality agreements with key strategic suppliers.
**You will**:- Maintain and promote strong relationships with suppliers, Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing, Planning, Finance, Quality, Commodity Management and any other internal customers.- Liaison with the Commodity Management and Sourcing Engineering Teams in the development of commodity strategies, inputs and discussions about supplier score card and performance reviews (Quarterly Business Reviews).- Attend plant production meetings- report status of key material issues/updates- Participate in escalation meetings.
Monthly Production schedule to be sent prior for Buyer to do analysis on firm orders and work with team to escalate issues to meet production needs