Strategic Sourcing Manager; Indirect

Strategic Sourcing Manager (Indirect) (Healthcare)

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

Build a career with purpose. Join our Cause to create a person‑focused and economically sustainable health care system.

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.

Qualifications and

Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, or related field and 7 years sourcing and contracting experience or related field.

Skills And Attributes:

• 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‑range 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, and financial models.
• Ability to translate data into convincing information.
• Experience with AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and decision‑making in professional settings highly desired.

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