Supply Chain Strategy Leader

Position Summary

We are seeking a strategically minded Supply Chain Strategy Leader to support Gifthealth’s supply chain function, oversee the Buyer team, and build the strategy and systems that will drive a more proactive, data-driven, and cost-effective supply base. They will partner closely with the Senior Supply Chain Manager to align procurement activity with demand forecasts and improve forecast accuracy across the organization, ensuring business decisions are grounded in real operational data.

• Develop, document, and drive a multi-year supply chain strategy for Gifthealth that aligns sourcing decisions with business growth, cost targets, supply chain resilience, and operational priorities.
• Establish processes, policies, purchasing standards, approval workflows, and category management frameworks that create consistency, accountability, and scalability across the procurement function.
• Identify strategic sourcing opportunities including supplier consolidation, long-term contract structures, volume leverage, and dual-source strategies that reduce risk and improve total cost of ownership.
• Support supplier negotiations for key contracts, pricing agreements, and service terms, ensuring Gifthealth achieves competitive outcomes while maintaining strong supplier relationships.
• Define and track procurement KPIs including cost savings, purchase order cycle time, on-time delivery, supplier fill rates, and spend under management, reporting outcomes to the Director of Supply Chain on a regular cadence.

• Directly manage and develop the Buyer team, providing clear direction, performance expectations, ongoing coaching, and structured performance reviews to build a high performing procurement function.
• Identify skill gaps and development opportunities within the team, supporting growth through training, stretch assignments, and process documentation that builds institutional knowledge.
• Serve as the escalation point for procurement issues that exceed the Buyer team’s authority or require cross-functional coordination, supplier negotiation, or Director-level visibility.

• Partner closely with the Senior Supply Chain Manager to align procurement planning with demand forecasts, ensuring purchasing decisions are timed, sized, and structured to support forecasted inventory needs without creating excess or shortfall.
• Actively contribute to improving forecast accuracy by surfacing procurement data, supplier lead time variability, and market intelligence that informs demand planning assumptions and purchasing cycle adjustments.
• Maintain procurement calendars and purchasing cadences in alignment with forecasting cycles, ensuring the Buyer team is placing orders at the right time and in the right quantities to meet planned inventory targets.
• Collaborate with the Senior Supply Chain Manager to review forecast vs. actual purchasing outcomes regularly, identifying root causes of forecast misses and implementing corrective measures to drive ongoing improvement.
• Contribute directly to the demand planning process by supplying supplier lead time, capacity, and cost data that shape volume and timing assumptions, and by participating in regular demand planning reviews alongside the Senior Supply Chain Manager.
• Support the development and continuous improvement of Gifthealth’s S&OP process, helping refine meeting cadences, data inputs, and reporting structures, and representing supply-side constraints and opportunities in demand and supply review meetings.
• Conduct ongoing market analysis, tracking supplier pricing trends, commodity and input cost movements, and market capacity shifts, and translating findings into sourcing strategy adjustments and forecast assumptions.

• Own the strategic supplier relationship at the management level for Gifthealth’s most critical and highest-spend vendors, conducting formal business reviews, managing contract renewals, and resolving escalated performance issues.
• Build and maintain a supplier performance scorecard…