Remote Strategic Sourcing Lead

Humana, Inc.; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 104,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Procurement Lead to develop and execute strategic sourcing and category management strategies that optimize spend and drive value across the organization.

You will partner with senior leaders to design outsourcing approaches and build supplier relationships that deliver measurable outcomes. The role requires strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and executive presence to articulate business cases and influence decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, supply chain, supplier management, contracting, or a related field.
• 3+ years experience leading end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives, including RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, supplier evaluations, and negotiations.
• Experience drafting, negotiating and executing complex contracts and amendments in partnership with Legal, Finance, Risk and business stakeholders.
• Experience sourcing complex services and leading outsourcing or managed-services category strategies; experience with professional services, technology, or other enterprise-level categories is also valued.
• Experience developing and executing multi-year category and sourcing strategies using spend analysis, market intelligence, supplier benchmarking, and financial analysis.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities, including experience using data to build business cases, scenario analyses, cost models, forecasts, total-cost-of-ownership assessments, and executive-level recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex sourcing initiatives simultaneously while adapting to changing business priorities and market conditions.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships, influence senior leaders, constructively challenge assumptions, facilitate trade-off discussions, and build alignment across competing priorities.
• Strong communication skills and executive presence, including the ability to simplify complex commercial, financial, and operational topics, articulate a clear point of view, and inspire confidence with executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, business-critical outsourcing and strategic sourcing initiatives from initial opportunity assessment through recommendation, negotiation, contracting, and value realization.
• Develop multi-year category and sourcing strategies using spend and demand analysis, market intelligence, supplier benchmarking, competitive assessments, and cost modeling.
• Design and lead end-to-end RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs, including strategy development, supplier evaluation, negotiation planning, award recommendations, and contracting approaches.
• Partner with, advise, and influence senior and executive leadership by applying strategic thinking, analytical rigor, and commercial judgment to constructively challenge assumptions, articulate compelling business cases, and translate complex business needs into clear recommendations and effective sourcing, supplier, and commercial strategies.
• Build fact-based business cases and scenario analyses that bring together financial, operational, supplier, and market insights, enabling leaders to evaluate trade-offs and make informed decisions.
• Shape outsourcing and managed-services commercial models, including FTE-based, fixed-fee, transaction-based, productivity, and outcome-oriented structures, to align supplier economics with business outcomes.
• Draft, negotiate, and execute contracts and amendments, partnering with Finance, Legal, Risk, Operations, Technology, and other stakeholders to establish sound commercial terms, implementation and transition plans, governance, controls, and risk mitigation.
• Evaluate and manage strategic suppliers based on performance, capabilities, financial health, risk, innovation, and long-term fit; establish governance and performance mechanisms that support accountability and continuous improvement.
• Advance supplier diversity, sustainability, responsible sourcing, and supplier code-of-conduct expectations within category and supplier strategies, as appropriate.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Category management

Executive presence

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Business case development

Influence senior leaders

Analytical rigor

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, business, supply chain, or related discipline

Job description

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Procurement Lead to develop and execute strategic sourcing and category management strategies that optimize spend and drive value across the organization.

You will partner with senior leaders to design outsourcing approaches and build supplier relationships that deliver measurable outcomes. The role requires strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and executive presence to articulate business cases and influence decisions.