Sourcing Consultant

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Baystate Health, a nationally recognized leader in healthcare quality and safety, and home to Baystate Medical Center (BMC),and the region's only level 1 trauma center, providing services throughout western Massachusetts is looking for a Strategic Consultant for Supply Chain.

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain or Business preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in Strategic Consulting or Procurement

• Fulltime 40 hours per week Monday-Friday
• Hybrid opportunity

• Onsite Springfield, MA or Holyoke, MA

• Excellent Compensation High-quality, low-cost medical, dental and vision insurance
• Generous PTO with scheduled earned increases
• Continuing education support and reimbursement
• Farm Share Memberships
• 403b retirement company match & annual company contribution increase based on years of service
• Free money coach advice from a certified professional
• Wellbeing programs that include but are not limited to mental, physical, and financial health
• Pet, home, auto and personal insurance
• Life insurance
• Reimbursement for a variety of wellbeing activities, included but limited to gym membership and equipment, personal trainer, massage and so much more!
• Wellbeing programs that include but are not limited to mental, physical, and financial health

This position is responsible for the timely and cost-effective strategic sourcing of complex goods and/or services. This position advises and guides business units regarding the application and integration of procurement philosophies and techniques to meet the needs of identified internal customer requirements using a global category view. This individual is responsible for sourcing, negotiating, contracting, and purchasing complex categories by influencing teams with various levels of employees and management to leverage buying power and recommend appropriate procurement strategies and tactics to obtain desired results.

Extensive interaction with Business Units, Leadership, Finance, Legal, and suppliers is required to ensure that total costs are identified and optimal savings are realized in executing a contract. Goods and services are reviewed by this position and managed across the company for all locations.

• Strategic category sourcing, through the development of category strategies based on rigorous analysis of spend data, supply market dynamics, category intelligence, and business requirements.
• Products' continuous supply and quality drive cost savings and cost avoidance and support strategic, innovative technologies.
• Interfacing with and managing business units for assigned strategic sourcing area(s).
• Partnering with key stakeholders to build influence, evaluate, and challenge the status quo.
• Working with business units to plan and set targets for sourcing activity for assigned complex categories.
• Regularly monitoring the market for category-leading practices and demand/supply shifts such as supply consolidation, technology innovations, etc.
• Identifying options for reverse auctions in category strategies.
• Working on complex sourcing initiatives requires high technical, market impact, and supply base competence.
• Actively setting, leading, and driving the sourcing team and timeline for all assigned sourcing initiatives.
• Leading the entire contract life cycle from Request for Proposal to supplier exit to meet the organization's cost, quality, and service expectations for assigned categories.
• Analyzing supplier proposals and facilitating fact-based supplier selection processes; preparing recommendations for leadership.
• Leveraging market data, external expert resources, spend analytics, and cost modeling to drive fact-based decision-making.
• Preparing and presenting business cases and should-cost models; performing complex data analysis and building financial models (i.e., ROI, supplier scorecards, savings tracking, make vs. buy decision…