Strategic Sourcing Manager - Healthcare

JLL; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated in Chicago seeks a Sourcing and Procurement Manager to lead a team (1 direct report) for a national healthcare client portfolio. You will be part of the account leadership team and drive initiatives, manage supplier relationships, and ensure contracting and procurement standards across the portfolio.

The role emphasizes building sourcing strategies, standardizing supplier agreements, and ensuring compliance with client flow-downs while coordinating with

Qualifications

• Degree in Purchasing & Supply Chain Management; 3+ years strategic sourcing experience.
• Professional certification preferred (ISM, LEED).
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational skills and strong analytical ability.
• IFM/Facilities sourcing experience (healthcare preferred).
• Excellent communication skills—oral and written.
• Hands-on strategist and tactician; able to lead and execute.
• Proven ability to deliver results in challenging environments.
• Proficient in MS Office applications.
• Expertise in sourcing and change management.
• Experience delivering multiple procurement strategies.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a meeting cadence with key client stakeholders and account leadership; build trusted relationships and provide reporting to support strategic planning.
• Develop strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management programs to manage client and account risk and standardize spend.
• Build and manage staff to meet account deliverables; recruit, develop and lead a high-performing team.
• Develop sourcing strategies and manage analytics to facilitate planning and sourcing.
• Standardize supplier agreements; ensure compliance with templates.
• Serve as primary communication liaison with client procurement team.
• Integrate systems and documents across service lines; drive risk management and compliance.
• Engage diversity and sustainable sourcing programs; develop plans for consistent application of sourcing and bidding processes.
• Engage service line leadership to develop a vision for a sourcing platform; meet business and client needs.
• Maintain supplier relationships to support performance and favorable negotiations.
• Document disparate processes; recommend solutions to drive consistency and risk mitigation.
• Assess and build detailed sourcing strategies with objectives and milestones.
• Execute sourcing plan.
• Coordinate national and regional sourcing initiatives with senior managers.
• Develop and host supply chain content training seminars twice a year.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Organization skills

Analytical ability

Team leadership

Communication skills

Hands-on strategist

Sourcing expertise

Procurement strategies

Results delivery

MS Office

Education

Purchasing & Supply Chain degree

MBA preferred

ISM/LEED certification

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Summary

Responsible for managing our Sourcing and Procurement team (1 direct report) for a national healthcare client portfolio. The candidate routinely is a member of the account leadership team. The manager will execute initiatives, manage supplier relationships as it relates to sourcing, administrative and operational activities and issues. Ensure contracting and procurement standards are maintained throughout the portfolio.

Summary

Responsible for managing our Sourcing and Procurement team (1 direct report) for a national healthcare client portfolio. The candidate routinely is a member of the account leadership team. The manager will execute initiatives, manage supplier relationships as it relates to sourcing, administrative and operational activities and issues. Ensure contracting and procurement standards are maintained throughout the portfolio.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain a meeting cadence with key client stakeholders and account leadership. Primary goal of meetings is to build a trusted relationship by providing critical thinking, support superior relationship management, provide reporting and data to support strategic planning.
• Develop both strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management programs to manage client and account risk, leverage controllable spend, standardize products/services, and modify and rationalize supplier base to meet spend leverage goals.
• Build and manage staff to meet account deliverables. Recruit, develop and lead team based on JLL principles for leading high performing teams. Ensure high performing talent is developed and receives exposure to the extent to support growth. Poor performing talent is provided opportunity to improve. Manage appropriately if poor performance continues.
• Develop sourcing strategies and manage analytics to facilitate planning and sourcing.
• Standardize supplier agreements; ensure agreements comply with client flow downs. Comply with JLL standard templates if not client specified.
• Serve as primary communication liaison with client procurement team.
• Integrate systems and documents employed across service lines; utilize single methodology and repository to strengthen risk management and to drive compliance.
• Engage active diversity and sustainable sourcing programs across the service lines. Develop a Plan to ensure consistent application of sourcing and bidding processes throughout service lines; randomly inspect programs to validate compliance. Track, measure and report results.
• Engage service line leadership to develop and execute a vision for a sourcing platform that meets the needs of the business and its client expectations.
• Maintain strong and favorable supplier relationships to support high supplier performance and favorable negotiation environments.
• Document disparate processes and approaches used today; recommend solutions to drive consistency and risk mitigation.
• Assess and build detailed sourcing strategies that identify objectives, category-spend assessments, and milestone timelines.
• Execute sourcing plan.
• Communicate and coordinate national and regional sourcing initiatives with senior managers and project/account personnel.
• Develop and host supply chain content related training seminars twice a year; focus on key contract details, key compliance challenges, bidding protocols, effective organizational support structures and protocols.
• Drive field compliance to sourcing and contracting policies and procedures as listed in the Atlas sourcing P&P manual. Identify non-compliance as evidenced and lead resolution in concert with internal audit.
• Coordinate with the Director of Supply Chain Management, Legal and Risk Management groups, Property and Project Management groups to maintain consistency in form, nature, scope, and execution of contracts within guidelines and appropriate business practices.
• Conduct Preferred Supplier performance review meetings, as required, and manage supplier scorecards, contract compliance and service obligations.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ideal candidate has degree in Purchasing & Supply Chain Mgt and/or 3+ years strategic sourcing experience, MBA preferred.
• Professional certification preferred (i.e. ISM, LEED)
• Excellent Inter-personal skills, Organization skills, Strong Analytical Ability, Proven ability to lead teams in decentralized environment.
• IFM/Facilities sourcing experience (healthcare preferred)
• Excellent communication skills - oral and written.
• Hands-on role requiring willingness and ability to be both the strategist and tactician.
• Expertise in sourcing with demonstrated ability to manage change.
• Success implementing multiple procurement strategies.
• Proven ability to deliver results in challenging environments.
• Excellent PC skills, proficient in MS applications.