[Hiring] Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing @CONMED Corporation

Role Description

The Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Metals owns the enterprise Metals category strategy and delivers measurable cost, continuity, supplier, and risk outcomes. The Metals portfolio is one of the most significant direct-material portfolios supporting CONMED's Largo operation. This role requires sustained stakeholder engagement, disciplined supplier management, ownership of critical escalations, and the ability to influence without direct authority and lead cross-functional solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Category Strategy: Own and lead the multi-year enterprise Metals category strategy across suppliers, sites, functions, and business priorities, connecting category choices to CONMED transformation goals.
• Complex Negotiations: Lead complex negotiations using commodity indices, should-cost models, benchmarking, and TCO, with material business, continuity, and commercial implications.
• Commercial Structuring: Design complex commercial structures, including indexation, capacity commitments, tooling ownership, LTAs, and balanced risk-sharing terms.
• Advanced Analytics: Build and challenge should-cost, index, benchmark, TCO, PPV, and financial scenario analyses to shape strategy and negotiations.
• Supplier Governance: Establish strategic-supplier governance, lead recovery and development plans, and hold suppliers accountable for sustainable results.
• Risk & Escalation Ownership: Anticipate commodity, capacity, quality, commercial, geopolitical, and continuity risks; lead critical supplier escalations with clear decision paths and recovery plans; maintain executive-level continuity governance.
• Enterprise Influence: Influence senior, cross-functional, and supplier stakeholders across Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Planning, and R&D/NPI; resolve competing priorities and lead decisions without direct authority.
• Compliance & Responsible Sourcing: Anticipate qualification and compliance risk, and integrate responsible-sourcing and supplier-accountability expectations into category strategy.
• Financial Impact: Connect category actions to financial outcomes and communicate investment, savings, cash, working capital, and risk tradeoffs to leaders.
• Executive Communication: Translate complex market, cost, supplier, and risk matters into concise, persuasive executive recommendations and maintain stakeholder confidence during critical escalations.

Technical Competencies

• Strategic Sourcing and Negotiation Excellence
• Metals Commodity Expertise and Market Intelligence
• Should-Cost Modeling and Cost Analytics
• Supplier Development and Performance Management
• Manufacturing and Engineering Partnership
• Regulatory Compliance and Supplier Qualification
• Risk Mitigation and Supply Continuity Planning
• Sustainability and Responsible Sourcing
• Financial Acumen and Advanced Analytics
• Contracting and Commercial Structuring

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic Thinking and Long-Range Planning
• Cross-Functional Influence and Collaboration
• Managing Ambiguity and Risk-Based Decision Making
• Results Orientation and Accountability
• Executive Communication and Stakeholder Influence

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive strategic sourcing experience, including ownership of a significant direct-material category.
• Minimum 3+ years of leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree.
• APICS/ASCM (CSCP, CPIM) or ISM (CPSM) certification.
• Deep knowledge of metal manufacturing processes, alloys, and global metals markets.
• Experience supporting product transfers, NPI, or manufacturing transformation programs.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, high-value negotiations and multi-year category strategies.
• Experience leading supplier escalations and continuity plans in a regulated manufacturing environment (medical device preferred).
• Advanced capability in should-cost modeling, TCO, commodity indexation, and financial analysis.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Excellent healthcare including medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage
• Short & long term disability plus life insurance -- cost paid fully by CONMED
• Retirement Savings Plan (401K) -- CONMED matches your contributions dollar for dollar, with the potential for up to 7% per pay period
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan -- allows stock purchases at discounted price
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate level courses