Senior Strategic Sourcing & Category Lead (Hybrid)

Vizient; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Comprehensive benefits plan

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Vizient seeks a Senior Associate to provide strategic sourcing, contracting, market intelligence, and category expertise to drive measurable outcomes for clients. You will partner with clinicians, supply chain leaders, value analysis teams, and suppliers to identify opportunities that improve value and client satisfaction.

You will develop deep category expertise, support supplier negotiations, and contribute to contract implementation while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in strategic sourcing and category management.
• Experience across clinical, medical-surgical, and physician preference items.
• Strong analytical skills using spend, utilization, supplier, and market data.
• Excellent stakeholder collaboration and communication.
• AI fluency for business applications and quality checks.

Responsibilities

• Support development and execution of category strategies for assigned product and service categories.
• Partner to manage sourcing initiatives from opportunity identification through implementation.
• Conduct category, market, supplier, utilization, and spend analyses to support sourcing recommendations.
• Assist in developing sourcing plans, project timelines, stakeholder engagement strategies, and implementation approaches.
• Research market conditions, emerging technologies, supplier capabilities, and industry trends.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Category management

Healthcare operations

Data analytics

AI fluency

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Job description

Vizient seeks a Senior Associate to provide strategic sourcing, contracting, market intelligence, and category expertise to drive measurable outcomes for clients. You will partner with clinicians, supply chain leaders, value analysis teams, and suppliers to identify opportunities that improve value and client satisfaction.

You will develop deep category expertise, support supplier negotiations, and contribute to contract implementation while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders in a