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 to drive cost savings, supplier innovation, risk mitigation, and value creation while aligning with clinical, operational, and financial objectives. It provides leadership over contracting, procurement, and value analysis functions, and advances analytics-driven decision-making and supplier performance management. The manager ensures regulatory compliance and fosters internal and external relationships to support quality, safety, service, and cost outcomes. The role 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 (CLM) technology, analytics, and workflow tools to improve visibility, efficiency, and supplier performance. This is a first-shift position at the Medical Center in Fort Worth, with standard weekly hours of 40. The schedule is Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Cook Children’s is a Texas-only employer; employees must maintain their primary residence in Texas and any licenses and credentials required for the position throughout employment.

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.
Must maintain a primary residence in Texas throughout employment.
Must maintain all licenses and credentials required for the position throughout employment.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare setting experience.
Experience with GPO strategy and optimization.
Supplier risk management and resilience planning experience.
Contract lifecycle management experience.

Responsibilities

Lead and execute enterprise-wide strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier strategy.
Develop and implement multi-year category strategies to drive cost savings, supplier innovation, risk mitigation, and value creation.
Align sourcing and supplier strategies 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.
Build 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 CLM technology, analytics, and workflow tools to improve visibility, efficiency, and supplier performance.