Strategic Sourcing Manager; Indirect

Strategic Sourcing Manager (Indirect) (Healthcare)

Work Hybrid (In office 3 days/week) within Oregon, Washington, Idaho or Utah

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Every day, Cambia’s dedicated Sourcing Team is living our mission to make health care easier and lives better. As a member of the Sourcing Team, you’ll deliver best-in-class strategic sourcing, contract management, and negotiation for complex, indirect spend categories. Develop category strategies, serve as the primary contact for business customers, and drive fact-based group decisions with significant operational or financial impact – all in service of making our members’ health journeys easier.

• The Strategic Sourcing Manager II would have a Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management, or related field and 7 years sourcing and contracting experience or related field.

• Create and influence category strategies within assigned business units.
• Apply in-depth knowledge to solve broad issues that are complex in scope, and establish medium to long-ranging plans.
• Lead favorable results through providing leadership to the function.
• Develop sustainable strategies for moderately complex categories that include spend analysis, market and geographic considerations, and strategic importance.
• Negotiate and manage contracts moderate in complexity for assigned commodities ensuring the relentless pursuit of cost savings and favorable terms.
• Recommend and implement sourcing, contracting and supplier management policies and procedures that provide for financial strength of the company and asset security.
• Drive continuous improvement in all aspects of the procurement process including the evaluation of existing contracts for savings opportunities.
• Develop sustainable sourcing strategies for assigned spend categories by considering spend profiles, market and geographic considerations, Cambia’s strategic objectives.
• Lead sourcing events that produce value in alignment with Cambia’s objectives.
• Negotiate contracts and craft SOWs for assigned spend categories in order to obtain the best value to the company through favorable contracting terms and pricing.
• Prepare and present contract executive summaries and obtain contract approvals in accordance to governance policies.
• Create, manage and promote sound relationships with strategic suppliers and internal business partners.
• Partner with Supplier Relationship Managers as needed to resolve supplier issues.

• In-depth knowledge of sourcing and contract fundamentals. Demonstrated knowledge of indirect spend categories, contracting skills and principles, laws, regulations, and industry standards.
• Prior experience in all elements of sourcing and category management for indirect services, including professional services and business process outsourcing.
• Experience in the 7-step strategic sourcing process with emphasis in the areas of category strategy development, RFx sourcing processes and contract management.
• Prior experience in desired spend categories.
• Project management skills with the ability to lead and prioritize activities.
• Strong leadership and change management skills.
• Demonstrated strong experience in leading major sourcing events involving multi-department stakeholders.
• Strong Project Management skills and experience.
• Proven negotiation skills and the ability to apply key sourcing principles.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills with a wide variety of stakeholders, including leadership and large groups.
• Demonstrated competency in facilitating, leading and influencing decision-making.
• Excellent problem solving and risk management skills.
• Ability to accomplish results through others by establishing relationships, effective controls and monitoring processes.
• Ability to develop and analyze business cases, spend analytics,…