Mgr-Sourcing and Vendor Management

SSM Health; Missouri; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SSM Health in Missouri is seeking a seasoned leader to direct strategy and spend management for supply chain and indirect services. You will guide a team of sourcing managers, coordinate with clinical and administrative leaders, and ensure compliance with contracts and processes across the organization.

The role focuses on developing category strategies, optimizing supplier performance, and driving cost savings while maintaining service quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Five years' experience with demonstrated leadership responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Develops spend management processes and strategies for spend categories, leading cross-functional teams.
• Oversees negotiation strategies and finalizes contracts to ensure value and alignment with contracts.
• Aligns with system and clinical leaders to support co-created strategies across functions.
• Builds relationships with supplier leadership and conducts routine performance reviews to maximize opportunities.
• Coordinates technology reviews and interface costs, ensuring life cycle cost projections.
• Recruits, engages, develops, leads, and manages staff.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic sourcing

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type

Regular

Job Summary

Leads the strategy and spend management for supply and indirect/purchased services. Provides leadership, guidance, and support to a team of strategic sourcing managers and agents. Engages with category specific clinical and administrative leadership throughout the organization to support creation of category and sourcing strategies. Ensures alignment to defined processes and compliance to contractual commitments.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements

Primary Responsibilities

• Develops and implements spend management processes and strategies for spend categories to include: sourcing strategies by leading cross-functional teams of leaders and end-users, overseeing and completing implementation of defined strategies, identifying and developing cost reduction ideas and initiatives, reducing unnecessary variation, and ensuring system alignment to identified standards.
• Provides oversight and guidance for developing negotiation strategies and finalizing contracts which provide the organization with optimal value and meet the organizational service, quality and pricing expectations. Monitors compliance with system contracts and engages leaders as appropriate to resolve unfavorable variances.
• Aligns with system and clinical leaders to support and co-create strategies that advance functional areas. Ensures alignment across impacted and supporting shared service functions.
• Builds working relationships with supplier sales and executive leadership and plans routine performance reviews with key suppliers and internal stakeholders to evaluate supplier performance and make recommendations to address issues and maximize opportunities.
• Facilitates product standardization and conversion processes including clinical trials, evaluations, and cost savings analyses. Provides complete cross reference information to stakeholders.
• Coordinates required technology reviews and related interface costs, timelines, and recommendations. Ensures interface technology costs are included in life cycle cost projections and decisions. Oversees process for introduction of any new technology.
• Recruits, engages, develops, leads, and manages assigned staff.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Experience

• Five years' experience with demonstrated leadership responsibility

Physical Requirements

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Required Professional License And/Or Certifications

• None

Work Shift

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type

Employee

Department

8725010033 Supply Chain Mgmt

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

SSM Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. SSM Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.