Purchasing Manager

ITAC Solutions; Homewood (AL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct-hire role

High-visibility position

Build a new organizational function

Travel across practice network

Job summary

ITAC Solutions is assisting a fast-growing, multi-site medical organization in filling a Purchasing/Procurement Manager role. You will help centralize procurement, architect vendor relationships, and define the data strategy that drives profitability across the network.

Based in Birmingham, AL with remote Fridays, you will standardize workflows, lead negotiations, and own a centralized procure-to-pay platform while traveling 25–40% to engage teams and suppliers across locations.

Qualifications

• Medical industry experience required.
• Hands-on ownership of the entire purchasing process across multiple locations.
• Not a delegate-and-oversee role.
• Track record using data tools like Power BI to drive vendor negotiations and cost savings.
• Comfortable traveling 25-40%.
• Based in or willing to work onsite in Birmingham, AL, with remote Fridays.

Responsibilities

• Analyze spend, usage, and market data across all locations to uncover savings opportunities.
• Standardize purchasing workflows, approval hierarchies, and requisition processes org-wide.
• Lead vendor selection, contract negotiations, and RFP/RFQ processes for best pricing and terms.
• Own configuration and management of a centralized procure-to-pay (P2P) platform.
• Build relationships with manufacturers, distributors, and GPOs.
• Integrate new practices/acquisitions into centralized procurement.
• Track and report cost savings, rebates, and contract compliance to leadership.

Skills

Power BI

Data analysis

Vendor negotiations

Tools

e-procurement system

Job description

Step into a Purchasing/Procurement Manager role where your decisions directly shape the financial health of a fast-growing, multi-site medical organization. Our client is centralizing procurement from the ground up — and needs a proven procurement leader ready to take the reins. This is a rare shot to move beyond managing POs and into architecting the systems, vendor relationships, and data strategy that drive profitability across an entire network of practices.

Benefits & Extras:

• Direct-hire role with a growing, multi-site healthcare organization
• High-visibility seat reporting directly to the Director of Real Estate & Procurement
• Build a brand-new, organization-wide function from scratch — write the playbook, don’t just follow it
• Regular travel across the practice network, meeting the teams and vendors who keep the business running

Compensation: $90,000–$105,000 base DOE with 10% annual bonus potential

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Analyze spend, usage, and market data across all locations to uncover savings opportunities
• Standardize purchasing workflows, approval hierarchies, and requisition processes org-wide
• Lead vendor selection, contract negotiations, and RFP/RFQ processes for best pricing and terms
• Own configuration and management of a centralized procure-to-pay (P2P) platform
• Build relationships with manufacturers, distributors, and GPOs
• Integrate new practices/acquisitions into centralized procurement
• Track and report cost savings, rebates, and contract compliance to leadership

What You’ll Need to be Considered

• Medical industry experience required
• Hands-on ownership of the entire purchasing process across multiple locations — not a delegate-and-oversee role
• Demonstrated success managing an e-procurement system across multiple sites
• Track record using data tools like Power BI to drive vendor negotiations and cost savings
• Comfortable traveling 25-40% (heavier early on) across the practice network
• Based in or willing to work onsite in Birmingham, AL, with remote Fridays