Procurement Manager

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem—including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.

About the role

This is a Q3 FY26 strategic hire, purpose-built to operationalize the vision of Procurement as a co-equal, value-generating function within the Office of the CFO. Reporting directly to the Director of Procurement and aligned with the Sr. Director of Strategic Sourcing & Contracts, this role sits at the intersection of supplier strategy, spend governance, and operational execution. You will own the commercial relationship after signature, translating contracts into realized value, holding suppliers accountable to their commitments, and building the governance infrastructure that scales with Datavant’s growth.

The opportunity is quantifiable: $4.4M–$7.6M in annualized untapped value sits across contingent workforce, vendor QBR governance, licensing and demand management, and our AI and automation spine. You will own the path to capturing it. This is a leadership role without a title ceiling, responsible for converting strategy into structure and spend into competitive advantage.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own the vendor governance program, transforming supplier relationships from reactive to strategic. Design segmentation models, scorecard frameworks, and QBR cadences to introduce accountability.
• Lead recurring QBRs with strategic and critical suppliers, driving performance against SLA commitments, cost targets, and innovation obligations. Ensure every session produces documented actions with named owners and measurable follow-through.
• Build a closed-loop governance cycle (scorecard → QBR → action plan → renewal decision) into a repeatable, auditable standard.
• Lead Procurement’s role in standing up Datavant’s first structured contingent workforce program, including VMS/MSP implementation, rate cards, tenure controls, demand visibility, and supplier panel standards across $31.2M in consulting and staffing spend.
• Transform contingent workforce from an invisible cost center into a managed category with BU-level reporting, compliance controls, and leadership-facing transparency.
• Own program compliance and VMS/MSP reporting post-implementation to ensure the investment delivers against its business case.
• Manage the renewal pipeline as a strategic asset, surfacing upcoming renewals with full business context (utilization data, performance history, market benchmarks) and recommended paths forward.
• Establish the standard that no contract renews without a utilization and entitlement review, protecting Datavant from auto-renewals on underperforming or underused tools.
• Drive spend compliance as a business outcome through stakeholder education, simplified compliant pathways, and process design (not policing).
• Partner across Finance, IT, and the AI/Automation workstream (Coupa, Spendhound, Concur) to ensure spend data is clean, metadata is consistent, and demand management insights are actionable.
• Lead license utilization reviews across Datavant’s $55.8M software and technology portfolio to identify duplication, underutilization, and rationalization opportunities.
• Define supplier qualification criteria, activation governance, and onboarding processes to ensure risk, compliance, and insurance requirements are verified before any spend is committed.
• Elevate T&E from a reimbursement function to a compliance and analytics program, introducing policy governance, exception management, and spend pattern analysis.
• Contribute to executive-level reporting and CFO-facing dashboards, translating procurement data into business narratives covering spend trends, savings realized, risk exposure, and program performance.

Requirements

• 5 to 8 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management within a high-growth technology, SaaS, or healthcare technology environment.
• Proven track record of building programs (not just running them), including supplier governance programs with QBRs, scorecards, and performance frameworks.
• Experience with VMS/MSP platforms or contingent workforce program management; familiarity with co-employment risk and staffing category dynamics is a plus.
• Proficiency in Coupa or comparable P2P/CLM platforms; familiarity with Spendhound, Concur, or similar spend intelligence tools is valued.
• Strong analytical fluency, comfortable synthesizing spend data, license utilization reports, contract metadata, and executive dashboards into clear recommendations.
• Strategic mindset paired with operational precision—able to design program architecture and ensure execution details are accurate.
• Exceptional stakeholder influence skills, building credibility with Finance, Legal, IT, HR, and business unit leaders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related field; CPM, CPSM, or equivalent professional certification is a differentiator.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or contributing to procurement transformations, operating model redesigns, or function build-outs in scaling organizations.
• Navigated the boundary between Procurement and Sourcing, understanding collaboration without friction or duplication.
• Built executive-facing spend reporting or contributed to CFO/board-level presentations on procurement performance and value creation.

Benefits

Datavant’s total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance health technology company, rewarding employees for transforming healthcare through industry-defining data logistics products and services.

Pay

The estimated total cash compensation range for this role is $136,000—$160,000 USD.