Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager - Remote

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* Full time

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* Description:

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* ** Purpose*
* Accountable for leading, guiding & directing the functional responsibilities within an area of assignment. Enable ministry-level or enterprise-wide functional strategy to address internal or external business & regulatory issues. Provide functional expertise & ensure fulfillment of performance & service standards. Responsible for consistent operating performance & achieving financial goals. Identifies, defines & solves complex problems that impact the management & direction of the business.

Collaborates with Services Areas, Regions & Health Ministries to ensure consistency & integration of strategy & operations while maintaining awareness of new industry developments & standards. Provides decision support, operations & / or optimization leadership focus.

** Essential Functions*
* ** Our Trinity Health Culture:
** Knows, understands, incorporates & demonstrates our Trinity Health Mission, Values, Vision, Actions & Promise in behaviors, practices & decisions.

** Leadership:*
* Providing advice, guidance & leadership to RHM & Region leaders in developing strategies & in the achievement of performance goals.

Enable Collaboration across & within service area, RHM & Regions to ensure consistency & integration of strategy & operations

** Direction & Growth:*
* Providing advice, guidance & leadership to service area, functional area, RHM & Regions.

Leading standardization / systemness & optimization of policy, process, methodology, establishing a national community of practice.

Oversee Vendor / Contract Labor Management including centralizing strategy & optimizing spend.

** Strategic Support & Accountability:*
* Collaborates in system-wide strategy development & deployment of functional area priorities & initiatives.

Responsible for supporting regional efforts to comply with functional area priorities.

Accountable for the selection, evaluation & overall success of the functional leadership teams.

Organization-wide focal point for establishing functional strategies & governance over financials & staffing.

Accountable for communication between service area functional area, RHM & Region leaders.

** Operational Delivery:*
* Responsible for measuring & reporting KPIs / metrics & value delivery.

Providing advice, guidance & leadership for the colleague life cycle.

** Maintains a Working Knowledge
** of applicable federal, state & local laws / regulations, Trinity Health Integrity & Compliance Program & Code of Conduct, as well as other policies, procedures & guidelines in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical & professional behavior & safe work practices.

** Functional Role (not inclusive of titles or advancement career progression)*
* Leads strategic sourcing activities for complex initiatives with the ability/goal of achieving significant cost reductions, supplanted with year-over-year cost and productivity improvements in the total cost of goods and services procured while maintaining or improving product quality and vendor service levels.
Leads, facilitates, assembles and manages cross functional teams across the System with Regional Health Ministries (RHMs) to drive system-wide priorities, achieve cost reductions, service and quality excellence, and knowledge transfer for replication of "best practice". The Manager has expert knowledge and experience in strategic sourcing processes, supporting analysis, and the ability to create and implement strategic commodity plans. Strategic sourcing activity includes but is not limited to, managing several simultaneous competitive sourcing processes, complex contract negotiations of high value, and limiting exposure to the System on high-risk projects.

This position has responsibility for making decisions and managing risks that impact day-to-day operations. The Manager provides oversite of assigned staff which may include Sourcing Managers, Sourcing Analysts, Contract Administrators and other staff. The Manager is responsible for directing the sourcing activities of assigned team and sourcing categories. This position is accountable for maintaining business relationships with suppliers and Trinity's group purchasing organization (GPO).

The business relationships with suppliers will require negotiating terms supporting the business plan objectives and protecting Trinity from business continuity risk, working with legal to develop contracts to memorialize terms and conditions of the trade relationship, and monitoring supplier performance and conducting business reviews. The business relationship with the GPO will require representing Trinity's interest on advisory boards, providing guidance on the GPO negotiation strategies, and supporting contract implementation across the ministry.

+ Drives system contract compliance by optimizing the use of national group purchasing, custom group purchasing, and Trinity Health system agreements. Demonstrates detailed understanding of products, service offerings,…