Global Medical Product Sourcing Leader

Cardinal Health, Inc.; Field (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cardinal Health is seeking a strategic sourcing leader to own the top-priority product opportunities within the Portfolio Gap Launch and drive end-to-end sourcing for private-brand medical products. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, and Operations, to bring projects from concept to commercialization.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, supplier negotiations, and leadership of 1–2 Strategic Sourcing Advisors, with broad

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, supply chain, or product commercialization, preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading the end-to-end strategic sourcing process, including supplier discovery, RFQs/RFPs, supplier selection, cost analysis, negotiations, and contract execution, preferred.
• Strong project management experience, with the ability to lead multiple complex, high-priority initiatives and drive them from strategy through implementation, preferred.
• Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams across functions such as Marketing, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and external suppliers, preferred.
• Strong financial and analytical skills, including experience with should-cost analysis, landed cost, business cases, and evaluating revenue or margin opportunities, preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with and present to senior leaders, including clearly articulating project status, risks, financial impact, recommendations, and decisions needed, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the top 5 to 6 highest-priority, highest-revenue, and most complex product opportunities within the Portfolio Gap Launch pipeline, driving execution from initial opportunity assessment through commercialization and launch.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for new Private Brand medical products, including supplier discovery, RFQs/RFPs, bid analysis, supplier selection, award recommendations, negotiations, and implementation.
• Lead complex cross-functional product launches by coordinating Marketing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Planning, Logistics, Trade Compliance, Warehousing, Distribution, Legal, Finance, and external suppliers.
• Evaluate sourcing and product opportunities using revenue potential, landed cost, should-cost analysis, margin impact, supply risk, supplier capabilities, and time to market to support data-driven business decisions.
• Develop integrated project plans, identify risks and barriers that could impact product launches, establish corrective actions, and drive stakeholder accountability to keep high-priority initiatives on schedule.
• Lead supplier engagement and commercial negotiations, including pricing, critical terms and conditions, NDAs, amendments, contract routing, and other requirements necessary to establish and maintain strategic supplier relationships.
• Serve as the primary sourcing leader for high-visibility opportunities, effectively influencing stakeholders across, upward, downward, and across peer relationships within a large, matrixed organization.
• Manage and develop 1 to 2 Strategic Sourcing Advisors, providing work prioritization, coaching, guidance, escalation support, and clear expectations for sourcing and project execution.
• Maintain visibility across the broader Portfolio Gap Launch pipeline and consolidate the work and outputs of the sourcing team into portfolio-level reporting for functional leaders, senior leadership, and executives.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level updates that clearly communicate portfolio progress, financial opportunity, sourcing status, launch readiness, key risks, decisions required, and recommended actions.
• Establish and continuously improve processes, governance, tools, templates, metrics, and best practices for the evolving Portfolio Gap Launch program, identifying recurring barriers and opportunities to accelerate execution.
• Ensure product and launch deliverables meet applicable quality, regulatory, commercial, sourcing, operational, logistics, and supply-chain requirements, while proactively resolving issues that could affect successful commercialization.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Procurement

Category management

Supply chain

Cross-functional

Negotiations

People leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Cardinal Health is seeking a strategic sourcing leader to own the top-priority product opportunities within the Portfolio Gap Launch and drive end-to-end sourcing for private-brand medical products. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, and Operations, to bring projects from concept to commercialization.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, supplier negotiations, and leadership of 1–2 Strategic Sourcing Advisors, with broad