Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

You are a strategic, highly driven sourcing leader with proven expertise managing complex component and reagent bills of materials (BOMs) across key technical domains, including specialty hardware, electronics, reagents, and custom plastic molded parts. You are an exceptional people leader who sets high expectations, drives accountability, and inspires a high-performing team. Recognizing that team members possess diverse experience levels and personalities, you maintain a flexible, adaptable leadership approach to meet people where they are and unlock their full potential.

You seamlessly shift between high-level strategic framework development and hands‑on, tactical execution when necessary, orchestrating sophisticated RFPs, robust supplier management strategies, and cross‑functional alignment in fast‑paced life sciences or diagnostics environments.

• Architect and execute the global strategic sourcing framework for Vital Bio while actively leading and mentoring a high-performing team of domain experts across reagents, chemicals, plastic components, hardware, and electronics.

• Establish high standards of excellence, accountability, and best practices across the strategic sourcing organization.

• Own the global commodity strategy including supplier segmentation, technology roadmaps, and supply risk mitigation.

• Lead supplier selection and initial qualification, design and execute RFP/RFQ processes, comparing suppliers on price, quality, lead time, compliance, and value-added capabilities leveraging technical expertise to evaluate and influence decisions in alignment with product and process requirements.

• Establish and negotiate master supplier agreements (MSAs), statements of work (SOWs) and strategic partnerships that drive total cost of ownership (TCO) improvements, leveraging deep industry knowledge to optimize for key specifications, payment structures, cost, quality, intellectual property, scalability, and supply continuity.

• Deliver measurable outcomes in cost savings, supply assurance, and innovation through strategic sourcing initiatives.

• Oversee supplier qualification, audits, and compliance in partnership with QA/RA teams, ensuring regulatory adherence while enabling innovation.

• Collaborate with R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams to serve as the leadership liaison, assisting in translating product requirements into clear sourcing priorities. Partner with planning and procurement teams to shape and execute the overall supply chain strategy for reagents and specialty materials, including the transition to ongoing supplier management and procurement activities.

• Proactively identify and partner with assay teams to mitigate supply chain risks (single source, MOQs, shelf life, market volatility, etc.) using scenario planning and contingency strategies.

• Drive continuous cost reduction and process optimization initiatives, applying should‑cost modeling, make‑versus‑buy analysis, and volume leverage tactics.

• Serve as the sourcing subject matter expert (SME) in executive reviews and cross-functional operations forums.

• Champion supplier performance management, including QBRs, KPI tracking, and escalation resolution.

• Build and sustain strong supplier relationships, navigating the nuances of commodity suppliers, strategic partners, and niche specialty vendors, while driving supply assurance, innovation, and long-term value creation.

• Stay current on market trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes that impact reagent sourcing—anticipating their implications for Vital Bio’s needs.

• Support departmental initiatives to optimize quality, cost, time-to-market, and operational resilience.

• Partner with executive leadership to align sourcing strategies with company…