Sr. Director, IT Enterprise Sourcing

Blue Shield of California•Oakland, CA

21h

About The Position

Your Role The Global Business Services team sources for all vendors and goods needed for Blue Shield of California and other entities under the Ascendiun holding company umbrella. This role oversees all IT procurement and sourcing for the health plan, and Ascendiun's subsidiary, Stellarus IT. The Senior Director will be a key member of the Procurement Management team, responsible for providing leadership, guidance, and structure for the company's procurement practices. The Senior Director, Enterprise IT Sourcing will report to the VP, Global Business Services & Blue Partnerships department that is led by Pradip Khemani. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team in delivering and collaborating on all aspects of the execution of the enterprise sourcing process at Blue Shield of California and Stellarus, including supporting the business to make effective sourcing decisions and establish vendor contracts. The Senior Director, IT Enterprise Sourcing role will also provide the community of practice to deliver strategic sourcing, culture of affordability and supplier relationship management excellence at Blue Shield and Stellarus.

Requirements

Requires a college degree or equivalent experience
Requires at least 12 years of prior relevant experience in executing strategic initiatives with a track record of delivering results across a diverse portfolio of enterprise sourcing and supplier activities
Requires a minimum of 8 years of management experience with direct reports
Requires prior experience in negotiating multi-year service agreements with single contract values greater than $5M per year
Requires proven ability to draft contractual provisions based on strategy discussions, stakeholder input, and organizational needs and expectations
Requires ability to effectively manage and serve a wide range of internal business groups, including senior executives.
Requires experience with IT sourcing on a global scale.
Requires significant experience in contracting, negotiations and advising on commercial related issues
Requires comfort with sourcing for different financial entities.
Requires strong knowledge of a wide variety of contract types, including but not limited to pilot agreements, agreements with healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations, distribution agreements, quality agreements, outsourcing agreements, services agreements, and software / IT services agreements

Responsibilities

Maintaining alignment with the corporate objectives and strategy to optimize business value through strategic, operational and transactional sourcing relationships.
Provide business sourcing strategic advice, consultation & business case development expertise.
Support Ascendiun, Stellarus, Blue Shield of California and its subsidiaries prioritized procurement initiatives funded under strategic investment portfolio and run business plan approved in 2026 operating plan.
Foster cooperation, communication and partnership to increase competition throughout the vendor supply chain including placing greater emphasis on relationship-building to facilitate and ensure collaboration.
Maximize vendor relationships to deliver value to our stakeholders and be managed to the same high-quality standards as those within Health Plan/Entities.
Assess critical vendors' performance outcomes with stakeholders through quarterly business reviews.
Leverage semi-annual balance scorecards that measure business performance, security posture, financial viability and compliance and report out to Operating Committee/Audit Committee as requested/annually.
Operate as a trusted advisor to deliver on culture of affordability initiatives and furthering the supplier relationship management operating model and practice.
Support the company performance acceleration and transformation plan leveraging traditional procurement levers and strategies to develop, lead and execute multiple Tier 1 procurement initiatives including bolder North Star savings initiatives to deliver financial value creation of at least $20M-$25M in cost savings annually.
Manage the contracting enterprise Procurement sourcing initiatives, negotiations & deliverables management processes.
Have the ability to effectively lead and manage multiple projects with competing priorities and tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Be always audit ready for any internal and external audits.
Execute any new corrective plan development and remediation timely.
Self-assess, document process and controls, and engage with Internal Control Advisory Program quarterly to design any new internal control structure to have zero repeat audit findings.
Deliver a proactive schedule of sources and needed contracts for all IT services in a 1–3-year plan working with Executive leadership for Stellarus - IT division.