Technology Sourcing Specialist

Location: Dallas - Hospital

Responsibilities

• Lead and administer the end-to-end technology sourcing lifecycle, including intake, requirements validation, market research, competitive evaluation, vendor due diligence, negotiation, contracting, implementation handoff, renewal, and termination.
• Manage TEC operations, including meeting schedules, agendas, materials, decision documentation, action items, approvals, and stakeholder communications.
• Partner with business and clinical requestors to clarify needs, expected outcomes, funding, timing, alternatives, dependencies, and total cost of ownership.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for software, hardware, cloud services, professional services, maintenance, support, and other technology-related purchases.
• Coordinate requests for information, proposals, and quotations; establish evaluation criteria; facilitate vendor demonstrations; and document objective selection recommendations.
• Partner with Legal on contract review and negotiation, including pricing, service levels, data protection, security requirements, warranties, limitation of liability, indemnification, termination rights, audit rights, and renewal provisions.
• Coordinate vendor risk, cybersecurity, privacy, architecture, integration, accessibility, compliance, and operational assessments with the appropriate subject-matter experts.
• Negotiate commercially favorable pricing, terms, service commitments, and protections while maintaining productive vendor relationships.
• Maintain a centralized inventory of technology agreements, renewal dates, notice periods, financial commitments, ownership, risk findings, and required actions.
• Monitor contract performance, vendor obligations, service levels, utilization, spend, and stakeholder satisfaction; coordinate corrective actions and escalations when needed.
• Establish a risk-based vendor governance framework that segments vendors by criticality, spend, data access, operational dependency, and regulatory impact, with oversight requirements appropriate to each tier.
• Develop and maintain vendor scorecards and lead periodic business reviews that evaluate service levels, quality, responsiveness, security and compliance obligations, financial performance, contractual commitments, and opportunities for improvement