Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturingimproving productivity, enhancing peoples lives and redefining whats possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission critical applicationsfrom minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.This position is part of Novantas Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) business unit group. Novanta offers highly reliable, precise and safe solutions that enhance system performance and improve patient outcomes. Insufflators, pumps and disposable tube sets, along with medical visualization and operating room integration technologies are the preferred solution for minimally invasive surgery applicationsThe Manager Strategic Procurement is a key part of the MIS Global Supply Chain Team working closely with Operational Purchasing, Quality, Logistics, R&D, Finance teams and Suppliers; focused on meeting Novantas needs in cost, quality, delivery, service, and technology. You will create ongoing business relationships with key suppliers to provide added value to the business, including ownership to manage the planning, execution, and implementation of Sourcing NPI and VAVE Projects. In this role, you will provide professional leadership to a team of strategic buyers as well as delivering successful project management from 2 critical metrics: Supplier On Time Delivery (OTD) and Material Productivity (Best TCO). Successful candidate will have (1) strong leadership skills; (2) good project management skills; (3) strong communication skills; (4) ability to assess risks and chion recovery plans; (5) strong understanding and interpretation of engineering and technical documentation; (6) highly influential through data and (7) ability to run project status team meetings/calls.Primary ResponsibilitiesLead and manage a team of strategic buyersResponsible for effectively managing all materials spend for MIS division by analyzing total spend, identifying key aggregation opportunities, and creating programs to leverage spend at the highest possible level for the maximum possible impact.Create and manage strategic supplier partnerships to ensure continual performance expectations are met and year over year productivity is achieved by conducting proper supplier management techniques.Act as lead negotiator for major supplier agreements.Project management ownership of Sourcing NPI & VAVE Projects from transition (Category buyers) to implementation (Sourcing NPI & Productivity).Represents Strategic Purchasing in TCO/Engineering project reviews and supports N