Strategic Sourcing Category Manager - IT - Remote

IHA; Livonia (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Trinity Health is seeking a Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager to lead sourcing for complex initiatives, driving significant cost reductions while maintaining product quality and service levels.

You will manage competitive sourcing processes, negotiate high-value contracts, and collaborate with legal, finance, and operating teams to mitigate risk and improve end-to-end procurement.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates strategic thinking and negotiation skills.
• Strong analytical abilities and cost analysis proficiency.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Knows and demonstrates Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Values.
• Drives system compliance by optimizing national group purchasing and system agreements.
• Conducts competitive sourcing and negotiation on initiatives with moderate risk and value.
• Analyzes responses, reviews information to determine applicability, performs cost-benefit analyses, and presents findings.
• Determines favorable quotes and negotiates terms with vendors.
• Leads RFI/RFP/RFQ processes and negotiations for assigned projects.
• Leads cross-functional teams to drive standardization and cost reductions across the system.
• Builds stakeholder consensus and collaborates across geographies and RHMs.

Job description

POSITION PURPOSE

Leads strategic sourcing activities for complex small to medium initiatives with the ability of achieving significant cost reductions, supplanted with year-over-year cost and productivity improvements in the total cost of goods and services procured while maintaining or improving product quality and vendor service levels. Strategic sourcing activity includes but is not limited to, managing several simultaneous competitive sourcing processes, complex contract negotiations of high value, and limiting exposure to the System on high risk projects. This position has responsibility for making decisions and managing risk that impact day-to-day operations.

Employment Type

Full time

Description

Leads strategic sourcing activities for complex small to medium initiatives with the ability of achieving significant cost reductions, supplanted with year-over-year cost and productivity improvements in the total cost of goods and services procured while maintaining or improving product quality and vendor service levels. Strategic sourcing activity includes but is not limited to, managing several simultaneous competitive sourcing processes, complex contract negotiations of high value, and limiting exposure to the System on high risk projects. This position has responsibility for making decisions and managing risk that impact day-to-day operations.

This position is accountable for maintaining business relationships with suppliers and Trinity's group purchasing organization (GPO). The business relationships with suppliers will require negotiating terms supporting the business plan objectives and protecting Trinity from business continuity risk, working with legal to develop contracts to memorialize terms and conditions of the trade relationship, and monitoring supplier performance and conducting business reviews. The business relationship with the GPO will require representing Trinity's interest on advisory boards, providing guidance on the GPO negotiation strategies, and supporting contract implementation across the ministry.

Essential Functions

Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.

Drives system compliance by optimizing the use of national group purchasing, custom group purchasing and Trinity Health system agreements. Demonstrates detailed understanding of products, service offerings and financial impact.

Conducts competitive sourcing and negotiation process on initiatives with moderate risk and value, which include but are not limited to direct and indirect supplies, services and equipment.

Analyzes responses, reviews product/service/equipment information to determine applicability, performs cost benefit analyses, develops reports and presents findings.

Determines most favorable quotes and/or negotiates with vendors to obtain optimal price, terms and conditions.

Prioritizes projects for assigned commodities. Leads strategy development, manages Request for Information (RFI), Request for Proposal (RFP) and Request for Quotation (RFQ) processes. Leads analysis and negotiations.

Leads cross-functional teams for strategic sourcing initiatives to drive system-wide standardization, cost reductions, service and quality excellence, knowledge transfer for replication of best practice, information technology development and assisting with local implementation of various activities.

Builds stakeholder team consensus to endorse sourcing strategies. A demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across multifunctional teams and with RHMs in multiple geographies.

Develops, executes and communicates sourcing strategies in collaboration with senior level management and key stakeholders on overall process, timing, and objectives. Manages relationships to ensure internal customers and stakeholders are actively engaged.

Promotes a lean/process excellence culture. Participates in joint quality improvement initiatives with SO and RHM colleagues. Motivates and leads strategic sourcing lean program initiatives to increase productivity and improving end to end process efficiencies.

Accountable for engaging suppliers in the selection processes and maintaining business relationships that are conducted legally, ethically and in accordance with Trinity Health Policies/Procedures and the Organizational Integrity Program.

Accountable to develop a primary liaison for key suppliers within the assigned category. Conducts business reviews with key suppliers. Serves as the subject matter expert for all category supplier engagement questions from Trinity colleagues.

Maintains business relationships with the GPO leadership and staff. Provides input on sourcing strategy and represents Trinity on advisory boards as assigned.

Plans, manages and oversees the life cycle of complex small to medium sourcing projects. These projects involve but are not limited to multiple stakeholders, significant facilitation, standardization and process change to multiple business units.

Working knowledge on contract construction and the ability to review, red line and draft language for discussion. Close working relationship with legal for those contract issues requiring legal input.

Partners with Finance department to ensure that forecasted savings are validated.

Tracks and measures supplier performance against scorecards on an ongoing basis, as applicable. Conducts supplier Business Reviews as necessary.

Facilitates dialogue with local business owners, RHM senior management, and Supply Chain staff to remove barriers when necessary. Engages suppliers and RHMs to ensure timely resolution of service issue(s).

Establishes procedures for managing a comprehensive sourcing process for assigned products/services across Trinity Health.

Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State and