Senior Sourcing Manager (Hybrid)

What you will do

The Senior Sourcing Manager (Hybrid) will play a critical leadership role in driving sourcing strategies and supplier performance for Stryker’s Endoscopy business unit. This position offers the opportunity to combine strategic foresight with hands-on execution in a fast-paced, global, and highly matrixed environment.

As a key business partner to operations, quality, and finance, you will shape supplier capabilities, and deliver measurable business results through supplier alignment, cost optimization, and performance excellence. You will lead and develop a high-performing onsite procurement team, overseeing and sustaining sourcing activities, ensuring best-in-class quality, service, and value. This role is ideal for a collaborative, forward-thinking employee who thrives at the intersection of strategy, execution, and innovation—influencing decisions that directly support Stryker’s mission to make healthcare better. This is a hybrid role. We are seeking candidates based in San Jose, CA or the surrounding area. The employee is expected to be onsite on average 3 days per week.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Business Unit SLT, shaping sourcing strategies, supplier performance, and risk management while balancing strategy with execution.

• Drive strategic sourcing initiatives that deliver industry-leading outcomes in cost, quality, delivery, and sustainability.

• Partner cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Finance, Operations to align supplier strategies, budgets, and procurement initiatives with business goals.

• Anticipate industry and macroeconomic trends to evolve sourcing roadmaps and maintain competitive advantage.

• Champion supplier performance management, resolving escalations, improving reliability, and building long-term capability.

• Leverage global contracts and collaboration across sites to maximize value, mitigate risk, and strengthen resilience.

• Lead organizational adoption of sourcing strategies, driving change initiatives that deliver measurable ROI and lasting impact.

• Demonstrates strong prioritization and time management skills, effectively balancing multiple sourcing initiatives, stakeholder needs, and business priorities in a fast-paced environment.

What you need

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply management, business, finance, engineering or related field.

• 10 years of experience in Supply Management with a focus on strategic sourcing and supplier development

• Financial acumen with demonstrated experience in budgeting, modeling, and ROI analysis.

• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies & cost reduction methodologies

• Strong knowledge of supplier processes and supply chain risk factors including experience in assessing and mitigating risk in the supply base.

• Strong negotiations skills negotiating and implementing commercial contracts to include supply and quality agreements (QAA)

• Strong, working knowledge and application of supplier contract strategy, negotiations, contractual terms, and contract administration

• Travel: 20-30% including international travel

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree

• Lean Six Sigma Certification

• Experience working in regulated industries, including government, medical technology, and pharmaceuticals.

• Experience leading NPD and sustaining procurement strategies

• Ideal candidate has a background in sourcing components for a manufacturing site

US30 : $153,400 - $255,700 USD Annual

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.