Procurement Manager II

Blue Cross of Idaho•Meridian, ID

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Our Procurement Contract Managers collaborate with internal business partners to execute supplier negotiations and supplier contracting activities, maintain strategic supplier relationships, oversee contract lifecycles, and act as trusted advisors to various internal stakeholders. They also participate in competitive bidding work to minimize risk and optimize the value of materials and services acquisition.

Requirements

Five years of contract management experience, including supplier contracting, negotiations, and strategic sourcing.
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience (Two years’ relevant work experience is equivalent to one-year college)

Nice To Haves

Experience within the health insurance industry or healthcare field.

Responsibilities

Lead and support supplier contracting activity in partnership with Business Owners, ensuring contract language is substantive, complete, accurate, and aligned with business objectives, operational needs, regulatory expectations, and risk mitigation standards.
Draft, review, redline, and negotiate supplier agreements, statements of work, amendments, exhibits, and related documents to improve clarity, define deliverables, address timelines, establishes measurable outcomes, and reduce ambiguity.
Partner with internal Business Owners with competitive bidding and supplier selection activities, including RFx planning, supplier research, response evaluation, commercial analysis, documentation of conclusions, and supplier notification.
Partner with internal Business Owners to understand the business need, supplier relationship, requested scope, pricing model, service expectations, performance requirements, and any operational impacts that should be reflected in a supplier agreement.
Coordinate with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, IT/Cybersecurity, Risk Management, Finance, and other subject matter experts to resolve contract issues, address identified risks and confirm required reviews and approvals are completed before execution.
Assess contract terms for financial, operational, regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity, reputational, and business risk, and escalate concerns when contract language or supplier obligations may expose the organization to unacceptable risk.
Support supplier negotiations involving pricing, commercial terms, service level agreements, performance standards, data use, confidentiality, implementation expectations, termination rights, renewal language, and other key business or risk protections.
Identify opportunities to improve supplier value, reduce costs, strengthen contract protections, standardize language, streamline processes, and improve the overall contracting experience for Business Owners and stakeholders.
Maintain awareness of assigned suppliers, business areas, contract volume, renewal activity, emerging risks, and category needs so Procurement can support complex contracting work proactively.
Serve as a subject matter expert for supplier market insights, negotiation approaches, contracting practices, process controls, and supplier relationship management.