Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Metals
Job Title
Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Metals
Department
Global Strategic Sourcing
Location
Largo, FL - Remote
Reports To
Director, Strategic Sourcing
Level
Senior Manager
POSITION SUMMARY
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…