Manager, Strategic Sourcing Supply Chain

Cook Children's Health Care System•Fort Worth, TX

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Manager, Strategic Sourcing Supply Chain leads and executes enterprise-wide strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier strategy across the organization. The role develops and implements multi-year category strategies and drives cost savings, supplier innovation, risk mitigation, and value creation while aligning with clinical, operational, and financial objectives. The manager provides leadership over contracting, procurement, and value analysis functions, advances analytics-driven decision-making and supplier performance management, ensures regulatory compliance, and fosters internal and external relationships to deliver quality, safety, service, and cost outcomes. The position requires knowledge of the end-to-end contract lifecycle, including intake, drafting, negotiation, approval workflows, execution, repository management, compliance monitoring, amendments, renewals, and terminations. The manager partners with Legal, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, and business stakeholders to manage contractual, financial, regulatory, and cybersecurity risks; optimize contract value; ensure governance and compliance; and use contract lifecycle management technology, analytics, and workflow tools to improve visibility, efficiency, and supplier performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, Nursing, Respiratory Therapy, or a related field.
At least 5 years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or contract negotiation.
Knowledge of the end-to-end contract lifecycle.
Ability to partner with Legal, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, and business stakeholders to manage contractual, financial, regulatory, and cybersecurity risks.

Nice To Haves

Strategic sourcing, procurement, or contract negotiation experience in a healthcare setting.
Experience with GPO strategy and optimization, supplier risk management, and resilience planning.
Contract lifecycle management experience.

Responsibilities

Lead and execute enterprise-wide strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier strategy.
Develop and implement multi-year category strategies.
Drive cost savings, supplier innovation, risk mitigation, and value creation in alignment with clinical, operational, and financial objectives.
Provide leadership over contracting, procurement, and value analysis functions.
Advance analytics-driven decision-making and supplier performance management.
Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Foster internal and external relationships to deliver quality, safety, service, and cost outcomes.
Manage the end-to-end contract lifecycle, including intake, drafting, negotiation, approval workflows, execution, repository management, compliance monitoring, amendments, renewals, and terminations.
Partner with Legal, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, and business stakeholders to manage contractual, financial, regulatory, and cybersecurity risks; optimize contract value; and ensure governance and compliance.
Leverage contract lifecycle management technology, analytics, and workflow tools to improve visibility, efficiency, and supplier performance.