Strategic Sourcing Specialist

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Day

Monday-Friday

8:00 AM

5:00 AM

Regular

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Assist the organization in evaluating and supporting the system in the development of strategies for the acquisition of products and services and assists the organization in the implementation of these strategies.

• 3 years of experience in Supply Chain/Materials Management and/or related field, including experience with competitive procurement practices, contract analysis, and negotiation of goods and services

• Experience in a healthcare setting
• Experience in enterprise resource planning/procurement systems
• Experience in the RFX process
• Industry professional certification (CPM, CSCP, CMRP, CCCM)

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or related field or in lieu of degree, 5 years of Supply Chain experience

• No professional certifications required

• Ability to negotiate contractual agreements, including but not limited to, clinical and non-clinical equipment, clinical & non-clinical consumables, and services from a business deal perspective
• Ability to develop total cost of ownership analysis and present to stakeholders and support personnel
• Proven ability to lead teams and manage projects
• Demonstrates the ability to develop and maintain good working relationships, and interact with teams across organizational lines including administrative and executive staff
• Demonstrates well-developed and proven organizational, analytical, problem solving, and time management skills in a dynamic environment working on multiple projects
• Must have proven written and oral skills
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office

• Ensures contract compliance for clinical & non-clinical equipment, purchased services, and maintenance and negotiates improved pricing as well as other aspects of the business deal to develop a total cost of ownership, based on the current threshold levels as established by the organization.
• Negotiates pricing and the business deal aspects of contracts in the categories listed above that includes, but is not limited to, terms and conditions, master services agreements, other master agreements, end user licensing agreements, statements of work, other IT related agreements, and alternative financing option agreements as requested by the organization.
• Acts as a resource for departments to provide guidance on the business deal and legal process as it relates to Sourcing.
• Reviews current contracts and provides analysis.

• Coordinating the formal RFX (Request for Information, Request for Quotation, or Request for Proposal) process as needed by the organization.
• Guide organizational stakeholders through the process.
• Conduct market intelligence, vendor financial, and performance research.
• Evaluate findings and prepare the analysis for review by the Sourcing Supervisor, Manager, and stakeholder teams using a project charter.
• Create and maintain the RFX documents and facilitate specification development with the stakeholder teams as well as leading internal and external meetings, analyze the vendor responses, compile the data, and present the responses and recommendation to the stakeholder team.
• Create and maintain the scoring documents and lead the stakeholder team in the process in order to rank the vendors based on functionality.
• Supports various projects designed to standardize and reduce overall cost through process improvement…