Strategic Sourcing Category Manager ASC - 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.

Responsibilities

• Manages several simultaneous competitive sourcing processes, complex contract negotiations of high value, and limits exposure to the System on high-risk projects.
• Makes decisions and manages risks that impact day-to-day operations.
• Maintains business relationships with suppliers and Trinity's group purchasing organization (GPO).
• Optimizes the use of national group purchasing, custom group purchasing, and Trinity Health system agreements.
• 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.
• Analyzes data to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies that inform business strategies.
• Develops and maintains dashboards, reports, and visualizations using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Excel or similar platforms.
• 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.
• Manages Request for Information (RFI), Request for Proposal (RFP), and Request for Quotation (RFQ) processes.
• Manages analysis and negotiations for strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Manages cross-functional teams for strategic sourcing initiatives to drive system-wide standardization, cost reductions, service and quality excellence, knowledge transfer for replication of best practice, information technology development and assisting with local implementation of various activities.
• Executes and communicates sourcing strategies in collaboration with senior level management, Value Analysis, Operations, TIS, and key stakeholders on overall process, timing, and objectives.
• Maintains business relationships with 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.
• Manages 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 ensures adoption and use by team.
• Partners with the Finance department to ensure that forecasted savings are validated.
• Tracks and measures supplier performance against scorecards on an ongoing basis, as applicable.
• 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

• Healthcare industry experience is preferred.
• Highly proficient in data visualization, statistical analysis, and business intelligence tools.

Skills

• Data analytics
• Procurement practices
• Financial analysis
• Vendor relationships
• Market analysis
• Lean and technical problem-solving concepts
• Collaborative working relationships
• Conflict resolution
• Customer and stakeholder understanding
• Complex analysis
• Project management
• Supplier engagement
• Contract management
• Business intelligence tools

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