Remote Healthcare IT Procurement Lead

Humana Inc

Lansing (MI)

Remote

USD 115,000 - 158,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking an IT Procurement Lead (Senior Category Manager) to establish category strategies and sourcing plans for enterprise technology products and services, leading supplier selection and negotiations across a healthcare tech portfolio.

You will collaborate with Legal, Finance, Privacy, Security, and Risk teams to balance cost, risk, and value, translating business needs into practical sourcing strategies for senior leaders and executing multi-year plans.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, technology, finance, or related discipline or equivalent experience.
Eight+ years of progressive IT procurement, strategic sourcing, or category management experience.
Experience sourcing, negotiating healthcare technology solutions or comparable complex tech in a regulated industry.
Experience negotiating complex software, SaaS, cloud, data, and tech-enabled services agreements.
Strong understanding of category management, strategic sourcing, and supplier relationship management.
Ability to translate business, clinical, regulatory, privacy, security, data, and integration considerations into sourcing decisions.
Proven ability to influence senior leaders and manage multiple stakeholders.
Experience managing supplier performance, renewals, and value realization throughout contracts.
Strong financial and business acumen to evaluate pricing models and total cost.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute multi-year category strategies and sourcing pipelines informed by business priorities, market intelligence, spend, supplier capabilities, risk, and total cost of ownership.
Lead end-to-end sourcing initiatives, including requirements development, market assessment, competitive events, supplier evaluation, negotiation, contracting, and implementation support.
Negotiate complex software, SaaS, cloud, data, and technology-enabled services agreements, including pricing and licensing models, service levels, implementation terms, data rights, and renewal protections.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders, translating business needs into sourcing strategies and advising on market dynamics, supplier options, commercial risk, and trade-offs.
Partner with Legal, Finance, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, Enterprise Architecture, Procurement Operations, and other stakeholders to support timely decisions and improve stakeholder and supplier experience.
Evaluate and manage strategic suppliers across the contract lifecycle, including capabilities, financial health, strategic fit, delivery, innovation, security, regulatory considerations, performance, commitments, renewals, and risk.
Deliver measurable value through cost optimization, demand management, supplier consolidation, contractual protections, process improvement, and supplier-enabled innovation.
Develop financial analyses, business cases, negotiation strategies, savings forecasts, and executive-ready recommendations while monitoring healthcare technology and supplier-market trends for emerging risks and opportunities.
Promote adoption of preferred suppliers, procurement policies, sourcing processes, and contract standards, while coaching peers and advancing consistent category-management and sourcing practices.