Category Manager

Kardium Inc.; Burnaby; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to transforming lives through innovative medical devices. As a Category Manager, you'll play a crucial role in optimizing supply chains and driving strategic sourcing initiatives. Collaborate with a talented team to navigate complex supply agreements and enhance operational efficiency. This hybrid position offers a dynamic work environment where your contributions will directly impact the development of life-saving technologies. If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a collaborative setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical & dental coverage

Work-day flexibility

3 personal days per year

Support for family building

Career progression and learning support

Professional membership support

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in global strategic sourcing or category management.
• Experience in a medical device or highly controlled manufacturing environment.
• Solid understanding of ERP system functionality.

Responsibilities

• Develop supply chain strategy and optimize the supply base.
• Negotiate supply agreements to meet pricing and quality requirements.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities and implement solutions.

Skills

Strategic Sourcing

Risk Management

Negotiation

Project Management

Supply Chain Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Business

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management

Tools

ERP Systems

Job description

Kardium Inc., 155-8518 Glenlyon Parkway, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Req #239

March 10, 2025

Category Manager (Hybrid)

Your opportunity

By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.

Kardium has a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market: The Globe Pulsed Field System. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story.

The Category Manager is responsible for optimizing supply base and managing supply chain risk by developing strategy, evaluating risk, negotiating agreements, updating stakeholders, identifying cost savings, and collaborating on process improvement.

Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

What you’ll be doing

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop supply chain strategy and drive actions to optimize the supply base.
• Evaluate supply chain risk to identify risk factors and ensure the risk analysis is maintained up to date.
• Propose risk mitigation solutions and drive implementation of mitigation activities for identified high risk factors.
• Negotiate and drive execution and management of supply agreements to ensure necessary pricing, quality, delivery, inventory commitments and other business requirements are met.
• Proactively update key internal stakeholders on status of new and current critical supply issues.
• Act as first line of escalation to the purchasing team for cost, delivery, quality and other supplier relationship management issues.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities including make versus buy decisions, evaluate total cost of ownership, develop cost-benefit analyses models and ensure identified priorities are implemented.
• Work with key stakeholders to identify opportunities to move in-house processes upstream to the supply base.
• Ensure timely supplier response, implementation and completeness of required quality actions.
• Other tasks as assigned.

What you bring to the team

Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about developing cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work in a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. We understand that only by working together can we solve what was thought unsolvable.

You are suited to our approach and possess these attributes:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, supply chain management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in global strategic sourcing or category management.
• Experience in a medical device or other highly controlled manufacturing environment required.
• You understand risk management and how to assess and quantify risk in a supply management context.
• You have experience in negotiating complex supply agreements with significant financial exposure.
• Experience planning and leading change initiatives utilizing structured project management.
• Solid understanding of ERP system functionality.
• Demonstrated experience and achievement defining and implementing sourcing solutions.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally, as required.

Compensation

Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more experience than listed above, the pay range will be higher.

• $100,000 – 135,000 (CAD Annually)

The total cash we’ve listed for this position includes a base salary, plus a contribution to a Registered Retirement Savings plans (RRSP) to help support your financial goals.

Comprehensive medical & dental coverage for all permanent employees – effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.

Work-day flexibility – additionally, we provide 3 personal days per year.

Support for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.

Family building – we provide top up for both maternity leave & adoptive leave. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.

Career progression and learning support.

Professional membership support.

Life at Kardium

What makes us a great place to work?

Our Purpose

Our People

Our Culture

Brilliant

Achievers

Communication

Quality

Trust

Decision making

At Kardium, we embrace diversity of background, experience, and perspective and we’re committed to inclusion and equity at every level. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of all communities.

We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian Community ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, and Irish ERG.

As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.

And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more!

• Kardium Inc., 155-8518 Glenlyon Parkway, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada