Mgr-Sourcing and Vendor Management

SSM Health; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SSM Health is seeking a Manager of Sourcing & Vendor Management to lead spend management for supply and indirect services. You will guide a team of strategic sourcing professionals and collaborate with clinical and administrative leaders to shape category strategies.

You will negotiate contracts, drive cost savings, ensure supplier performance, and align initiatives with the organization's mission while delivering measurable value in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements spend management processes and strategies across categories.
• Develops negotiation strategies and finalizes contracts to maximize value.
• Aligns with clinical and administrative leaders to support category strategies.
• Builds relationships with supplier leadership and conducts performance reviews.
• Coordinates technology reviews and interface costs within lifecycle projections.
• Recruits, engages, develops, and leads assigned staff.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Job description

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

MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters, every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

As the Manager of Sourcing & Vendor Management , you’ll play a strategic role in maximizing organizational value through innovative sourcing strategies, strong supplier partnerships, and effective contract management. You'll collaborate with leaders across the organization to identify opportunities for cost savings, operational efficiency, and service excellence while ensuring suppliers consistently meet performance, quality, and compliance expectations. In this role, you'll lead vendor management initiatives, drive sourcing strategies, analyze market trends, negotiate complex agreements, and foster relationships that support our Mission and long-term business objectives. This is an exciting opportunity for a results-oriented leader who thrives on strategic thinking, collaboration, and delivering measurable impact across a dynamic healthcare environment.

Schedule: Hybrid role out of our system office in Des Peres, MO. Business Hours M- F 8-5.

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

Department:

8725010033 Supply Chain Mgmt

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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