Senior Category Manager-Electronics Software - Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Mar 2026At 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 ...

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Mar 2026

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

Join our Global Supply Management team as a Senior Category Manager-Electronics Software, where you utilize your strong track record of delivering results in a matrixed organization, where collaboration with diverse individuals, teams, and skill sets is essential for success.

As the Senior Category Manager-Electronics Software, you will partner and lead several categories in electronics, including software/firmware & programming categories. You will leverage your strong negotiation, technical, and relationship-building skills. As the Senior Category Manager, you will understand global raw materials markets and possess technical expertise in secondary processes to develop global strategies that leverage Medtronic's global purchasing power and deliver cost-effective, innovative solutions to each operating unit within our network. In addition, you will focus on multiple tiers of your supplier's supply chain to maximize leverage and awareness, ensuring compliance and continuity.

We seek candidates who will meet our customer expectations by striving without reserve for the highest possible reliability and quality in our products, processes, and systems by being accountable, having a voice, and taking action.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. 

As the Senior Category Manager-Electronics Technology, you will:

• Guide the development and execution of sub-category strategies (e.g., enterprise applications, SaaS subscriptions, AI tooling, cloud solutions, developer platforms) aligned with the broader Software category direction, working in close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders

• Supports the Software Category Program within the Electronics Vertical, overseeing targeted spend and third-party partnerships to advance strategic and operational priorities

• Own and execute negotiations in collaboration with business partners (e.g., SaaS, ELAs, cloud commitments, license agreements), using advanced levers like benchmarking, financial modeling, and usage forecasting.

• Advocate on behalf of the supply management function with operating units and operational partners to ensure support for core business objectives

• Identify and develop business cases for a healthy year-over-year cost-reduction pipeline with suppliers through lean, should-costing, process improvement, tier-2 strategies, and yield improvements.

• Perform market analysis in identifying the best cost country sourcing of said category, provide guidance to technical sourcing and engineering with supplier innovations, and proactively develop forward buy agreements where appropriate

• Use your technical and commercial expertise in the end-to-end embedded software/firmware market, including design, trends, and integration technologies, to define and manage winning category strategies and approaches with suppliers.

• Manage supplier relationships and drive year-over-year performance improvements with quality, delivery, and costs to ensure governance, strategic alignment, and continuous improvement

• Use your working knowledge of IT concepts, such as cloud infrastructure, software licensing, SaaS models, cybersecurity, and IT service agreements, to analyze received quotations and select or recommend new suppliers.

• Lead end-to-end supplier lifecycle management, including onboarding, performance optimization, and offboarding, with a focus on risk mitigation and value creation.

• Rationalize existing supplier base through stratification, market analysis, supplier development, and supplier consolidation

• Support new and ongoing supplier quality audit activities to ensure the supply base has robust process controls and capabilities to meet existing and future Medtronic business requirements

• Identify and utilize metrics, tools, business intelligence, and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities, and efficiencies, while working collaboratively with team members to prioritize and drive implementation.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant electronics software experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant electronics software experience

Nice to Have

• Highly skilled in the electronics software category, with expertise in developing and executing negotiation strategies, supported by strong organizational and collaboration skills.

• Skilled in developing category strategies, complex contract reviews and negotiations, lean manufacturing, business case development, Best Cost Country (BCR) sourcing experience, and product/process transfer/change requirements in a regulatory environment, with strong presentation skills

• Experience using lean methodology processes in a manufacturing environment

• Experience in a low-volume and high-mix demand for products environment

• Excellent negotiation, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Strong organization, project management, and follow-through skills, with the ability to prioritize, multitask, and act proactively.

• Microsoft, Excel, Analytics, and SAP experience preferred

• Ability to travel to vendor locations is required- domestic and international

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$138, $207,600.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

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.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. ("Medtronic") in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.