Strategic Sourcing Manager

About the role

Stryker is hiring a Sourcing Manager for its Strategic Sourcing team in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The role leads sourcing initiatives across a defined supplier portfolio, with direct visibility to senior leadership and cross-functional teams. It focuses on sustaining business and on integrating new products from development into production, with a hybrid work arrangement.

Key responsibilities

• Lead sourcing workstreams for product transfers, insourcing initiatives and manufacturing transformation projects, ensuring supplier readiness and risk mitigation.
• Identify, assess, select and onboard suppliers through RFQs, capability assessments and Approved Supplier List (ASL) management.
• Negotiate pricing, execute contracts, run cost reduction initiatives and build long-term supplier agreements.
• Lead component and supply chain transfer activities and new SKU implementations across multiple commodities.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain and Regulatory teams on supplier deliverables, qualification milestones, sample builds and launch readiness.
• Proactively identify sourcing risks, develop mitigation plans and report supplier performance, project status and financial impact to project teams and senior leadership.

Required profile

• 8+ years in supply management with a focus on strategic sourcing and supplier development.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience in regulated manufacturing environments, preferably medical device, electronics, electromechanical assembly or industrial products.
• Preferred: experience leading product transfers, insourcing, contract manufacturing transitions or large-scale supply chain projects, and onboarding suppliers and managing complex qualification efforts.

Required skills

• Strong commercial negotiation and supplier relationship management.
• Ability to lead multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

What we offer

• Salary of $102,600 - $171,000 USD annually.
• Hybrid work flexibility.
• 20% travel.