Remote IT Procurement Lead: Healthcare Tech Sourcing

Humana Inc

Madison (WI)

Remote

USD 115,000 - 158,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off and holidays

Disability and life insurance

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking an IT Procurement Lead (Senior Category Manager) to shape category strategies and sourcing for enterprise technology across the healthcare portfolio, including software, SaaS, cloud, and data services.

You will advise senior leaders, negotiate complex agreements, and collaborate with Legal, Finance, Security, Privacy, and Risk to balance cost, value and risk while delivering measurable savings and supplier performance.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business, supply chain, technology, or related field.
8+ years of IT procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, supplier management, or related field.
Experience sourcing or managing healthcare technology solutions in regulated settings.
Experience negotiating software, SaaS, cloud, data, and tech-enabled services agreements.
Strong category management, supplier evaluation, negotiation, contracting, and supplier relationship skills.
Ability to consider business, clinical, regulatory, privacy, security, data, and integration in sourcing decisions.
Proven ability to advise senior leaders and translate requirements into sourcing strategies.
Experience managing supplier performance, contracts, renewals, and value realization.
Strong financial acumen: evaluate pricing, develop business cases, analyze total cost.
Excellent written and verbal communication, executive presence, cross-functional collaboration.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

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: 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 the 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.