Strategic Sourcing Manager

cwi; West Allis (WI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's Wisconsin seeks a Strategic Sourcing Manager to develop and execute sourcing initiatives across assigned categories, overseeing contracts end-to-end and partnering with stakeholders to optimize costs and standardize products and services.

The role requires 7+ years in supply chain and 5+ years in strategic sourcing, with strong negotiation and analytical skills. Hybrid setup; in-office two days weekly in West Allis, WI, with flexibility based on business needs.

Qualifications

• Advanced skills in planning, project management, analytics, and negotiating.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills to coordinate with leadership, staff, and suppliers.
• In-depth knowledge of purchasing, logistics, business management principles, and deal valuations.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall contract portfolio management and lead contracting for the assigned category.
• Lead negotiations for equipment, goods, and services contracts with cross-functional collaboration.
• Coordinate with clinical, operational, financial, and supply chain stakeholders on sourcing strategies.
• Maintain complete contract documentation, negotiation records, and signature memorandums.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, legal, and organizational requirements.
• Own portfolio lifecycle from sourcing to renewal and replacement strategies.

Skills

Negotiation

Contract management

Analytics

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Excel

Outlook

PowerPoint

Word

Access

Job description

At Children's Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best.

Children's Wisconsin is a nationally recognized health system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children. We provide primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers. Our reputation draws patients and families from around the country.

We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country. If you want to work for an organization that makes a difference for children and families, and encourages you to be at your best every day,

This is a hybrid role, averaging two (2) days a week in West Allis, WI. These days in-office would likely be Tuesday/Thursday, but could fluctuate based on business need.

Please follow this link for a closer look at what it's like to work at Children's Wisconsin: https://www.instagram.com/lifeatcw/

Job Summary

The Strategic Sourcing Manager is responsible for developing and executing strategic sourcing initiatives for Children's across assigned categories while providing end to end oversight of supplier contracts and portfolios. This role partners closely with internal Children's stakeholders to drive cost optimization, mitigate risk, standardize products and services, and ensure compliant, value based contracting that supports enterprise objectives. The Sourcing Manager serves as a lead negotiator, contract owner, and trusted advisor to Children's leadership, balancing market intelligence, supplier performance, and contract lifecycle management.

Essential Functions

• Provide overall contract portfolio management. Responsible for managing and executing the contracting needs for the assigned portfolio. Work on a team of contract managers. Help iterate consistent contracting and spend evaluation tools.
• Serve as lead negotiator for equipment, goods, and services contracts, developing negotiation strategies that advance organizational priorities. Draft, review, negotiate, and execute contracts in collaboration with Legal, Compliance, Finance, IT, Analytics, and other stakeholders. Ensures all internal processes are completed prior to contract signature.
• Partner with clinical, operational, financial, and supply chain stakeholders to align sourcing and contracting strategies with business and patient care needs.
• Maintain complete contract documentation, including negotiation records, redlines, agreement summaries, and signature memorandums.
• Ensure incorporation of system approved terms and conditions and adherence to regulatory, legal, and organizational requirements.
• Own an assigned portfolio of contracts, providing full lifecycle management from sourcing and negotiation through execution, renewal, and replacement strategies.
• Identifies and recommends product standardization and supplier consolidation that results in greater efficiency while maintaining the highest level of safety and efficacy for all organizational entities and services.
• Act as the primary point of contact for contracted suppliers, including the GPO, within assigned categories. Facilitate business reviews, supplier evaluations, and continuous improvement initiatives. Monitor supplier performance against quality, service, cost, and compliance standards and lead corrective actions as needed. Track and report portfolio value, savings, and contract compliance metrics.
• Provide direct oversight of contract changes. Monitor product evaluations and conversions. Review the analyses of changes to price, models, levels of service, quality, quantity of materials, and estimated delivery dates. In alignment with the Value Analysis Program, form recommendations for departments to consider regarding product evaluations, conversions, and supply standardization.
• Administer contract compliance oversight, including monitoring changes to pricing, service levels, product specifications, and delivery commitments.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in related field required
• Master's Degree preferred

Experience

• 7+ years overall Supply Chain experience required
• 5+ years Strategic Sourcing related experience required
• Portfolio management experience required
• Contracting & negotiation experience required
• Healthcare experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Advanced skills in planning, project management, analytics, and negotiating.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills necessary to successfully coordinate work with Children's leaders and staff, and suppliers.
• In-depth and up-to-date knowledge of purchasing, logistics, business management principles, and business math, including business case development, cash flow analysis and deal valuations.
• Advanced computer skills and knowledge of Windows based software, must include Outlook, Excel and Word experience with Access and PowerPoint e