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Strategic Sourcing Director - Healthcare
Job in
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listed on 2026-01-12
Listing for:
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-01-12
Job specializations:
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Management
Business Management, Supply Chain / Intl. Trade
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.
** SUMMARY
* * Responsible for managing a Supply Chain Management Team and Procurement (SCMP) team with large-scale, typically Fortune 100, client portfolio. Span of control is typically multi-regional or global. The candidate routinely is a member of the account leadership team. The director identify and lead an SCMP team to execute initiatives, manage supplier relationships as it relates to sourcing, administrative and operational activities and issues.
Ensure contracting and procurement standards are maintained throughout the portfolio.
** RESPONSIBILITIES**:
* Maintain a meeting cadence with key client stakeholders and account leadership. Primary goal of meetings is to build a trusted relationship by providing critical thinking, support superior relationship management, provide reporting and data to support strategic planning.
* Develop both strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management programs to manage client and account risk, leverage controllable spend, standardize products/services, and modify and rationalize supplier base to meet spend leverage goals.
* Build and manage staff to meet account deliverables. Recruit, develop and lead team based on JLL principles for leading high performing teams. Ensure high performing talent is developed and receives exposure to the extent to support growth. Poor performing talent is provided opportunity to improve. Manage appropriately if poor performance continues.
Ensure SCMP staff perform key SCMP functions as follows but not limited to:
* Develop sourcing strategies and manage analytics to facilitate planning and sourcing.
* Standardize supplier agreements; ensure agreements comply with client flow downs. Comply with JLL standard templates if not client specified.
* Serve as primary communication liaison with client procurement team.
* Integrate systems and documents employed across service lines; utilize single methodology and repository to strengthen risk management and to drive compliance.
* Engage active diversity and sustainable sourcing programs across the service lines. Develop a Plan to ensure consistent application of sourcing and bidding processes throughout service lines; randomly inspect programs to validate compliance. Track, measure and report results.
* Engage service line leadership to develop and execute a vision for a sourcing platform that meets the needs of the business and its client expectations.
* Maintain strong and favorable supplier relationships to support high supplier performance and favorable negotiation environments.
* Document disparate processes and approaches used today; recommend solutions to drive consistency and risk mitigation.
* Assess and build detailed sourcing strategies that identify objectives, category-spend assessments, and milestone timelines.
* Execute sourcing plan.
* Communicate and coordinate national and regional sourcing initiatives with senior managers and project/account personnel.
* Develop and host supply chain content related training seminars twice a year; focus on key contract details, key compliance challenges, bidding protocols, effective organizational support structures and protocols.
* Drive field compliance to sourcing and contracting policies and procedures as listed in the Atlas sourcing P&P manual. Identify non-compliance as evidenced and lead resolution in concert with internal audit.
* Coordinate with the Director of Supply Chain Management, Legal and Risk Management groups, Property and Project Management groups to maintain consistency in form, nature, scope, and execution of contracts…
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