Advisor, Indirect Procurement Sourcing - IT Software

Cardinal Health

1d•Remote

About The Position

What Strategic Sourcing - Indirect contributes to Cardinal Health Global Sourcing is responsible for creating and managing diverse strategic supplier partnerships that drive enterprise value with innovation, best cost and competitive advantages that benefit customers, suppliers and patients. Develops and executes strategic plans by leveraging market intelligence, industry knowledge and cross-functional collaboration. Competitive advantage is created through supplier selection and management, contract negotiation, supply chain optimization and risk mitigation. Strategic Sourcing Indirect - IT Software is responsible for developing and executing strategy to source indirect software, SaaS, cloud services, and other related IT software related services to support our business stakeholders and programs. Perform analysis in order to select supplier and negotiate best value for Cardinal Health. Provide supplier relationship management and contract compliance management, including maximization of financial deliverables and risk mitigation. May work within various procurement systems to execute purchase orders and resolve technical issues as identified. Job Summary The Advisor, Strategic Sourcing is responsible for end to end sourcing for an indirect category(ies). This job develops relations with category business partners to understand and determine the sourcing needs of the business. The Advisor Strategic Sourcing executes the competitive bid, negotiation, contracting processes and/or technical continuous improvement for assigned commodities or services. This job leverages spend analytics and market intelligence to identify cost optimization opportunities in the sourcing of goods and services.

Requirements

3+ years of IT Software sourcing experience, preferred
Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
SAP Ariba preferred
Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects
May contribute to the development of policies and procedures
Works on complex projects of large scope
Develops technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems
Solutions are innovative and consistent with organization objectives
Completes work; independently receives general guidance on new projects
Work reviewed for purpose of meeting objectives
May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Responsibilities

Manages relationships with vendors including vendor selection, elimination and performance review activities.
Develops requests for projects, reviews bids, and negotiates contracts with third party vendors.
Works with business partners to determine sourcing needs and provide indirect sourcing support.
Collaborates cross functionally with legal on sourcing contract drafting, negotiations and finalization with third party vendors.
Maintains a working knowledge of existing contracts to navigate contract extensions and supplier relations.
Submits purchase orders, requests approval and inputs contracts into sourcing systems.
Stays abreast of strategic projects to ensure timely execution of sourcing demands.