Senior Director, Corporate Services Strategic Sourcing

MUSC Health is transforming Supply Chain into an enterprise strategic business function. This role serves as a trusted executive advisor who helps business leaders shape strategy, evaluate markets, optimize commercial models, and build supplier partnerships that accelerate organizational priorities across Corporate Services.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal commercial advisor supporting executive leadership across Human Resources, Finance, Legal, Revenue Cycle, Marketing, Compliance, Corporate Administration, and Shared Services.
• Partner with Chiefs and Administrative Officers and senior business leaders to translate strategic priorities into executable sourcing, supplier, and commercial strategies.
• Participate in strategic planning discussions to identify opportunities for supplier innovation, automation, outsourcing, and AI-enabled operating models.
• Continuously monitor consulting, business process outsourcing, corporate software, financial services, legal, HR, and marketing markets.
• Provide executive benchmarking, supplier intelligence, and commercial recommendations to support strategic decision making.
• Develop sourcing strategies supporting consulting, professional services, business process outsourcing, corporate software, banking, insurance, and strategic partnerships.
• Evaluate insourcing, outsourcing, co-sourcing, managed services, shared services, and automation models.
• Lead complex negotiations balancing financial performance, supplier accountability, flexibility, and business outcomes.
• Build strategic supplier ecosystems that foster innovation and operational excellence.
• Develop executive governance frameworks emphasizing performance, innovation, financial stewardship, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with executive leadership to design future-state operating models leveraging supplier partnerships, automation, AI, and business process redesign.
• Reduce organizational complexity through supplier rationalization, enterprise standardization, and disciplined category strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; graduate degree preferred.
• 12+ years strategic sourcing experience with significant professional services procurement.
• 7+ years leadership experience.
• Experience managing complex enterprise negotiations.
• Healthcare or Fortune 500 procurement leadership.

Executive Expectations

• Shape business strategy before sourcing events begin.
• Bring external market intelligence and benchmarking into executive decision making.
• Challenge conventional approaches through data, commercial insight, and supplier innovation.
• Develop long-term category strategies rather than execute transactional procurements.
• Build executive-level supplier relationships that create measurable enterprise value.
• Measure success through business outcomes, transformation, and value realization—not negotiated savings alone.

Physical Requirements

• Mobility & Posture: Standing: Continuous, Sitting: Continuous, Walking: Continuous, climbing stairs: Infrequent, working indoors: Continuous, working outdoors (temperature extremes): Infrequent, working from elevated areas: Frequent, working in confined/cramped spaces: Frequent, Kneeling: Infrequent, bending at the waist: Continuous, Twisting at the waist: Frequent, Squatting: Frequent.
• Manual Dexterity & Strength: Pinching operations: Frequent, Gross motor use (fingers/hands): Continuous, Firm grasping (fingers/hands): Continuous, Fine manipulation (fingers/hands): Continuous, reaching overhead: Frequent, Reaching in all directions: Continuous, Repetitive motion (hands/wrists/elbows/shoulders): Continuous, Full use of both legs: Continuous, Balance & coordination (lower extremities): Frequent.
• Lifting & Force Requirements: Lift/carry 50 lbs. unassisted: Infrequent, Lift/lower 50 lbs. from floor to 36”: Infrequent, Lift up to 25 lbs. overhead: Infrequent, Exert up to 50 lbs. of force: Frequent.
• Vision & Sensory: Maintain corrected vision 20/40 (one or both eyes): Continuous, Recognize objects (near/far): Continuous, Color discrimination: Continuous, Depth perception: Continuous, Peripheral vision: Continuous, Hearing acuity (with correction): Continuous, Tactile sensory function: Continuous, Gross motor with fine motor coordination: Continuous.
• Selected Positions: Olfactory (smell) function: Continuous, Respirator use qualification: Continuous.
• Work Environment & Conditions: Effective stress management: Continuous, Rotating shifts: Frequent, Overtime as required: Frequent, Latex-safe environment: Continuous.

Scheduled weekly hours: 40. Pay grade: Health-38.