Advisor, Strategic Sourcing Global Products - Portfolio Gap Launch Team

Cardinal Health, Inc.; Field (KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cardinal Health, Inc. seeks a Strategic Sourcing Advisor to coordinate and execute new product introductions and commercialization projects for medical products sourced from third-party manufacturers or in-house.

You will work with Marketing, Sourcing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, and Logistics to identify, source, setup, and launch products that fill portfolio gaps. The role requires strong expertise in global sourcing, cross-functional collaboration, and cost-reduction

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years in global strategic sourcing for FDA-regulated medical devices or large healthcare firms.
• Experience developing targets and implementing sourcing strategies across categories.
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, Word; familiar with Tableau for analytics.

Responsibilities

• Create RFPs and align award recommendations per Cardinal Health's sourcing process.
• Support a portfolio of projects to fill portfolio and category gaps.
• Improve Private Brand sourcing and NPI processes by identifying gaps and barriers.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities for launch of Private Brand products.
• Collaborate with Marketing to define product needs and priorities.
• Partner with Logistics, Planning, and QA to confirm import, warehouse, and distribution readiness.
• Champion cross-functional sourcing initiatives across internal and external teams.
• Drive cost reduction initiatives to meet business unit goals.
• Perform data analysis and identify opportunities leveraging scale and market trends.
• Develop solutions and verify deliverables meet quality, regulatory, and commercial requirements.
• Estimate landed cost using LCM tool and support should-cost analyses.
• Manage NDA processes and ordering samples within Cardinal.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Negotiation

Data analysis

Cost reduction

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Tableau

Job description

What Strategic Sourcing - Global Products contributes to Cardinal Health

Global Sourcing is responsible for creating and managing diverse strategic supplier partnerships that drive enterprise value with innovation, best cost and competitive advantages that benefit customers, suppliers and patients. Develops and executes strategic plans by leveraging market intelligence, industry knowledge and cross-functional collaboration. Competitive advantage is created through supplier selection and management, contract negotiation, supply chain optimization and risk mitigation.

This position is responsible for coordinating and executing new product introduction and commercialization projects for medical products sourced from third-party medical device manufacturers and/or self/contract manufactured. The Advisor collaborates with Marketing, Sourcing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Logistics, and external suppliers to facilitate the identification, sourcing, setup, and launch of products that fill portfolio gaps

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating RFP's & aligning associated award recommendations in accordance with Cardinal Health's sourcing process.
• Supports a portfolio of projects assigned to fill portfolio and category gaps
• Support improvements to Private Brand sourcing and new product introduction processes by contributing to the identification of handoff gaps, recurring barriers, and opportunities to simplify execution.
• Facilitate and coordinate cross-functional project activities for the introduction and commercialization of new Private Brand medical products sourced from third-party manufacturers
• Collaborate with Marketing to gather information for defining product needs, confirming business priorities, and supporting product selection decisions.
• Partner with Logistics, Trade Compliance, Planning, Warehousing, and Distribution teams to confirm import requirements, lane setup, warehouse readiness, inventory planning, and distribution network execution.
• These include products for hospital equipment, hygiene, skin management, respiratory, anesthesiology, textiles, resin based commodity items, and more
• Collaborates with internal and external resources to champion cross-functional sourcing initiatives.
• Drives cost reduction pipeline initiatives that facilitate business owners achieving their business unit goals and financial targets.
• Perform data analysis and utilize financial acumen to identify opportunities to leverage scale and drive cost savings.Global experience in category management, including technical product knowledge, cost drivers, related industry dynamics and market trends.
• Develop creative solutions to resolve issues
• Verify and monitor that deliverables meet applicable quality, regulatory, commercial, sourcing, and operational requirements.
• Estimates Landed Cost using LCM tool and supports Should Cost analysis engagement
• Track and Manage implementation of price lists
• Manage the NDA processes for the team
• Support as an SME In ordering samples within Cardinal
• Manage critical contracts and ensure new elements are appropriately amended or documented

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and at least 5 years of experience in developing targets, developing global strategic sourcing strategies, and delivering breakthrough levels of performance improvement across a portfolio of assigned categories for an FDA-regulated medical device manufacturer or a healthcare company with annual sales more than $5 billion, preferred
• 5 years of experience developing and implementing requirements/change management methodologies to execute strategic sourcing activities, preferred
• 5 years of experience developing and implementing requirements to execute and enhance day-to-day sourcing activities, preferred
• Knowledge of the strategic sourcing procurement lifecycle and procurement best practices and methods. Demonstrate how this knowledge has been applied, preferred
• Experience in diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems, preferred
• Experience coordinating and facilitating executive management meetings, preferred
• Strong project and process management to execute supply strategy for assigned categories with cross functional teams, preferred
• Experience with contract requirements to negotiate critical terms and conditions in line with category strategy, preferred
• Advanced skill level in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Word, and familiarity with Tableau, preferred
• Ability to read specifications, drawings etc., preferred
• Experience of leading global cross-functional teams within a large matrix organization, preferred
• Familiarity with manufacturing, quality, and supply chain processes to support supplier selection and performance management, preferred
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; able to communicate effectively and interact with personnel at various levels of expertise in a global landscape,