Hybrid: Senior Strategic Sourcing & Contracts Leader

Scripps Health; Imperial Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Scripps Health is seeking a full-time Contract Manager for Strategic Sourcing at our 4S Ranch area office with partial remote options. This leadership role oversees Category Managers and Analysts, guiding sourcing events, negotiations, contract renewals, and supplier performance to meet cost, quality, and continuity goals.

The position emphasizes physician preference items, enterprise-wide sourcing, and cross-functional collaboration with clinical, operational, finance, legal, and supply chain

Qualifications

• Seven years of strategic sourcing with an emphasis on physician preference items, vendor negotiations, and developing business relationships.
• Problem solving abilities utilizing creative and influential skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct leadership, guidance, performance management, and professional development for Category Managers and Strategic Sourcing Analysts.
• Establish team priorities, assign work, monitor project progress, and ensure sourcing and contracting initiatives are completed within established timelines, savings targets, and organizational expectations.
• Coach and mentor team members on strategic sourcing methodologies, negotiation tactics, stakeholder engagement, supplier management, financial analysis, and influencing strategies.
• Review and provide strategic direction for sourcing recommendations, supplier proposals, negotiation plans, contract terms, financial analyses, and implementation plans prepared by Category Managers and Strategic Sourcing Analysts.
• Lead highly complex, high-value, and enterprise-wide sourcing opportunities, vendor negotiations, and contract escalations.
• Oversee supplier negotiations for contracts, renewals, pricing, terms and conditions, rebates, value-added services, and risk mitigation provisions.
• Manage the end-to-end contract lifecycle, including opportunity assessment, request for proposal/information processes, financial analysis, negotiation, contract execution, implementation, and performance monitoring.
• Lead and manage Supply Chain performance improvement workplan initiatives, ensuring projects are prioritized, tracked, and completed within established timelines and savings targets.
• Conduct and oversee market, vendor, spend, utilization, and commodity financial analyses to support sourcing recommendations and contracting strategies.
• Evaluate supplier capabilities, market trends, pricing benchmarks, supply risk, and total cost of ownership to identify opportunities and inform decision-making.
• Partner with physician leaders, clinical stakeholders, department leaders, finance, legal, and operational teams to establish strategic objectives and successfully execute complex sourcing opportunities.
• Monitor supplier compliance with contractual obligations, service-level expectations, pricing commitments, and performance metrics; address performance issues and escalations as needed.
• Support continuous improvement of Supply Chain contracting processes, tools, templates, policies, and governance practices.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Vendor negotiations

Supplier management

Financial analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Contract management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business / Supply Chain / Finance / Healthcare Administration

Experience in acute-care hospital setting

Tools

Contract management systems

Spend analytics platforms

ERP systems

Job description

Scripps Health is seeking a full-time Contract Manager for Strategic Sourcing at our 4S Ranch area office with partial remote options. This leadership role oversees Category Managers and Analysts, guiding sourcing events, negotiations, contract renewals, and supplier performance to meet cost, quality, and continuity goals.

The position emphasizes physician preference items, enterprise-wide sourcing, and cross-functional collaboration with clinical, operational, finance, legal, and supply chain