Remote Global Sourcing Strategy Advisor

Cardinal Health; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 82,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

PTO

Job summary

Cardinal Health is seeking a Senior Advisor in Strategic Sourcing to coordinate new product introductions and commercialization for medical products sourced from third-party manufacturers. You will collaborate with Marketing, Sourcing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Logistics, and external suppliers to fill portfolio gaps and ensure successful launches.

The role emphasizes global category management, supplier partnerships, and cost reduction initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 5 years of experience in developing targets, global sourcing strategies, and delivering performance improvements across categories for a large healthcare company.
• 5 years of experience developing and implementing sourcing requirements/change management methodologies.
• Experience with contract requirements to negotiate critical terms in line with category strategy.
• Knowledge of strategic sourcing lifecycle and best practices; demonstrated application.

Responsibilities

• Create RFPs and align award recommendations per Cardinal Health’s sourcing process.
• Support a portfolio of projects to fill portfolio and category gaps.
• Improve Private Brand sourcing and NPI processes by identifying handoff gaps and barriers.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities for introduction and commercialization of Private Brand medical products.
• Collaborate with Marketing to define product needs and support product selection decisions.
• Coordinate with Logistics, Compliance, Planning, Warehousing, and Distribution to confirm import requirements and network readiness.
• Champion cross-functional sourcing initiatives across internal and external teams.
• Drive cost reduction pipelines to meet business unit goals and financial targets.
• Perform data analysis and use financial acumen to identify opportunities for scale and savings.
• Leverage global category management experience and market trends to drive strategy.
• Develop creative solutions to resolve issues; ensure deliverables meet quality and regulatory requirements.
• Estimate landed cost using LCМ tools and support should-cost analyses.
• Track and manage price list implementations; manage NDA processes for the team.
• Support ordering samples as SME; negotiate and document new contract elements.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Sourcing strategy

Contract negotiation

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Cost reduction

Market intelligence

Data analysis

Supply chain

FDA-regulated knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Tableau

Job description

Cardinal Health is seeking a Senior Advisor in Strategic Sourcing to coordinate new product introductions and commercialization for medical products sourced from third-party manufacturers. You will collaborate with Marketing, Sourcing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Logistics, and external suppliers to fill portfolio gaps and ensure successful launches.

The role emphasizes global category management, supplier partnerships, and cost reduction initiatives.