Manager Strategic Sourcing - Remote

About the role

Leads strategic sourcing activities for complex initiatives with the goal/ability of achieving significant cost reductions, supplanted with year-over-year cost and productivity improvements in the total cost of goods and services procured while maintaining or improving product quality and vendor service levels.

Strategic sourcing activity includes but is not limited to, managing several simultaneous competitive sourcing processes, complex contract negotiations of high value, and limiting exposure to the System on high-risk projects.

This position has responsibility for making decisions and managing risks that impact day-to-day operations. This position is accountable for maintaining business relationships with suppliers and Trinity's group purchasing organization (GPO).

Responsibilities

• Drives system compliance by optimizing the use of national group purchasing, custom group purchasing, and Trinity Health system agreements.
• Demonstrates detailed understanding of products, service offerings, and financial impact.
• Conducts competitive sourcing and negotiation process on initiatives with moderate risk and value, which include but are not limited to direct and indirect supplies, services and equipment.
• Analyzes responses, reviews product/service/equipment/IT information to determine applicability, performs cost benefit analyses, develops reports and presents findings.
• Determines favorable quotes and/or negotiates with vendors to obtain optimal price, terms and conditions.
• Collects, cleans, and validates large datasets from multiple sources to ensure accuracy and integrity.
• Analyze data to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies that inform business strategies.
• Develops, maintains dashboards, reports, and visualizations using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Excel or similar platforms.
• Performs ad-hoc analysis and provides actionable recommendations to stakeholders.
• Conducts category assessments including spend analysis, demand forecasting, supply market intelligence, and risk evaluation to identify value creation opportunities.
• Leads enterprise spend management activities across assigned categories, ensuring alignment with organizational financial goals and budget targets.
• Prioritizes projects for assigned commodities.
• Leads strategy development, manages Request for Information (RFI), Request for Proposal (RFP), and Request for Quotation (RFQ) processes.
• Manages relationships to ensure internal customers and stakeholders are actively engaged.
• Motivates and leads strategic sourcing lean program initiatives to increase productivity and improve end-to-end process efficiencies.
• Engages suppliers in the selection processes and maintaining business relationships that are conducted legally, ethically and in accordance with Trinity Health Policies/Procedures and the Organizational Integrity Program.
• Develops a primary liaison for key suppliers within the assigned category.
• Conducts business reviews with key suppliers.
• Serves as the subject matter expert for all category supplier engagement questions from Trinity colleagues.
• Maintains business relationships with the GPO leadership and staff.
• Plans, manages and oversees the life cycle of complex small to medium sourcing projects.
• Utilizes Supply Chain Management’s digital systems, including strategic sourcing and contract lifecycle management applications, and ensure adoption and use by team.
• Partners with the Finance department to ensure that forecasted savings are validated.
• Ensures effective handoff of executed contracts to business owner, Supply Chain verticals, and other stakeholder departments as applicable. Includes accurate PO placement, broad understanding of contract value and milestones, and implementation expectations.
• Tracks and measures supplier performance against scorecards on an ongoing basis, as applicable.
• Conducts supplier Business Reviews as necessary.
• Facilitates dialogue with local business owners, RHM senior management, and Supply Chain staff to remove barriers when necessary.
• Engages suppliers and RHMs to ensure timely resolution of service issue(s).
• Establishes procedures for managing a comprehensive sourcing process for assigned products/services/IT across Trinity Health.
• Performs other duties as required in a competent, professional, and courteous manner.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with major course work in business, supply chain management, data science or clinical discipline; and at least seven (7) years of sourcing experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Thorough knowledge of supply chain principles and practices with demonstrated ability to perform financial analysis.
• Comprehensive knowledge and skills in advanced data analytics and procurement practices including intermediate to advanced excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar applications, vendor relationships, and market analysis for trends.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate complex findings in a clear and concise manner.
• Ability to establish and maintain productive and positive working relationships with all stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Ability to address conflict, along with willingness and desire to challenge conventional thinking from all levels throughout the organization, including senior level management.
• Capability to understand customer and stakeholder businesses at the financial, operational and business impact levels.
• Ability to proactively identify and bring forth potential issues and formulate viable solutions.
• Strong analytical skills include the ability to construct and execute multiple complex analyses (e.g. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Economic Value to Customer (EVC), Net Present Value (NPV) simultaneously).
• Excellent organizational, planning, and project management skills.
• Comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree with major course work in business, supply chain management, data science or clinical discipline; and at least seven (7) years of sourcing experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Nice to have: Healthcare industry experience is preferred. Highly proficient in data visualization, statistical analysis, and business intelligence tools.