Strategic Sourcing Category Manager ASC - Remote

Trinity Health•Livonia, MI

2d•Remote

About The Position

Accountable for leading, guiding & directing the functional responsibilities within an area of assignment. Enable ministry-level or enterprise-wide functional strategy to address internal or external business & regulatory issues. Provide functional expertise & ensure fulfillment of performance & service standards. Responsible for consistent operating performance & achieving financial goals. Identifies, defines & solves complex problems that impact the management & direction of the business. Collaborates with Services Areas, Regions & Health Ministries to ensure consistency & integration of strategy & operations while maintaining awareness of new industry developments & standards. Provides decision support, operations & / or optimization leadership focus. Leads strategic sourcing activities for complex initiatives with the goal/ability of achieving significant cost reductions, supplanted with year-over-year cost and productivity improvements in the total cost of goods and services procured while maintaining or improving product quality and vendor service levels. Strategic sourcing activity includes but is not limited to, managing several simultaneous competitive sourcing processes, complex contract negotiations of high value, and limiting exposure to the System on high-risk projects. This position has responsibility for making decisions and managing risks that impact day-to-day operations. This position is accountable for maintaining business relationships with suppliers and Trinity's group purchasing organization (GPO). The business relationships with suppliers require negotiating terms supporting the business plan objectives and protecting Trinity from business continuity risk, working with legal to develop contracts to memorialize terms and conditions of the trade relationship, and monitoring supplier performance and conducting business reviews. The business relationship with the GPO will require representing Trinity's interest on advisory boards, providing guidance on the GPO negotiation strategies, and supporting contract implementation across the ministry. Drives system compliance by optimizing the use of national group purchasing, custom group purchasing, and Trinity Health system agreements. Demonstrates detailed understanding of products, service offerings, and financial impact. Conducts competitive sourcing and negotiation process on initiatives with moderate risk and value, which include but are not limited to direct and indirect supplies, services and equipment. Analyzes responses, reviews product/service/equipment/IT information to determine applicability, performs cost benefit analyses, develops reports and presents findings. Determines favorable quotes and/or negotiates with vendors to obtain optimal price, terms and conditions. Demonstrates ability to collect, clean, and validate large datasets from multiple sources to ensure accuracy and integrity. Analyze data to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies that inform business strategies. Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Excel or similar platforms. Performs ad-hoc analysis and provides actionable recommendations to stakeholders. Conducts category assessments including spend analysis, demand forecasting, supply market intelligence, and risk evaluation to identify value creation opportunities. Leads enterprise spend management activities across assigned categories, ensuring alignment with organizational financial goals and budget targets. Can readily speak to the year over year spend differences and challenges within assigned portfolio. Prioritize projects for assigned commodities. Leads strategy development, manages Request for Information (RFI), Request for Proposal (RFP), and Request for Quotation (RFQ) processes. Leads analysis and negotiations. Leads cross-functional teams for strategic sourcing initiatives to drive system-wide standardization, cost reductions, service and quality excellence, knowledge transfer for replication of best practice, information technology development and assisting with local implementation of various activities. Develops, executes and communicates sourcing strategies in collaboration with senior level management, Value Analysis, Operations, TIS, and key stakeholders on overall process, timing, and objectives. Manage relationships to ensure internal customers and stakeholders are actively engaged. Promotes a lean/process excellence culture. Participates in joint quality improvement initiatives with SO and RHM colleagues. Motivates and leads strategic sourcing lean program initiatives to increase productivity and improve end-to-end process efficiencies. Engages suppliers in the selection processes and maintaining business relationships that are conducted legally, ethically and in accordance with Trinity Health Policies/Procedures and the Organizational Integrity Program. Develops a primary liaison for key suppliers within the assigned category. Conducts business reviews with key suppliers. Serves as the subject matter expert for all category supplier engagement questions from Trinity colleagues. Maintains business relationships with the GPO leadership and staff. Provides input on sourcing strategy and represents Trinity on advisory boards as assigned. Plans, manages and oversees the life cycle of complex small to medium sourcing projects. These projects involve but are not limited to multiple stakeholders, significant facilitation, standardization, and process changes to multiple business units. Using working knowledge on contract construction, reviews, red lines and drafts language for discussion. Close working relationships with legal for contract issues requiring legal input. Utilizes Supply Chain Management’s digital systems, including strategic sourcing and contract lifecycle management applications, and ensure adoption and use by team. Partners with the Finance department to ensure that forecasted savings are validated. Ensures effective handoff of executed contracts to business owner, Supply Chain verticals, and other stakeholder departments as applicable. This includes accurate PO placement, broad understanding of contract value and milestones, and implementation expectations. Tracks and measures supplier performance against scorecards on an ongoing basis, as applicable. Conducts supplier Business Reviews as necessary. Facilitates dialogue with local business owners, RHM senior management, and Supply Chain staff to remove barriers when necessary. Engages suppliers and RHMs to ensure timely resolution of service issue(s). Establishes procedures for managing a comprehensive sourcing process for assigned products/services/IT across Trinity Health.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with major course work in business, supply chain management, data science or clinical discipline; and at least seven (7) years of sourcing experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Thorough knowledge of supply chain principles and practices with demonstrated ability to perform financial analysis.
Comprehensive knowledge and skills in advanced data analytics and procurement practices including intermediate to advanced excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar applications, vendor relationships, and market analysis for trends.
Understands Lean and technical problem-solving concepts and techniques.
Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate complex findings in a clear and concise manner.
Ability to establish and maintain productive and positive working relationships with all stakeholders and external suppliers.
Ability to address conflict, along with willingness and desire to challenge conventional thinking from all levels throughout the organization, including senior level management.
Capability to understand customer and stakeholder businesses at the financial, operational and business impact levels.
Ability to proactively identify and bring forth potential issues and formulate viable solutions.
Strong analytical skills include the ability to construct and execute multiple complex analyses (e.g. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Economic Value to Customer (EVC), Net Present Value (NPV) simultaneously.
Ability to translate implications of analyses into preliminary recommendations.
Excellent organizational, planning, and project management skills.
Ability to quickly gain a fact-based understanding of current supplier base and major trends in relevant markets.
Knowledge of contract law and governing regulations with ability to work collaboratively with internal legal counsel for optimal System contracting.
Ability to be a self-starter and independent worker requires minimal supervision and the ability to manage priorities and manage own work, while achieving performance standards and work plan timing.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and changing priorities.
Comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare industry experience is preferred.
Highly proficient in data visualization, statistical analysis, and business intelligence tools.

Responsibilities

Leading, guiding & directing the functional responsibilities within an area of assignment.
Enabling ministry-level or enterprise-wide functional strategy to address internal or external business & regulatory issues.
Providing functional expertise & ensuring fulfillment of performance & service standards.
Ensuring consistent operating performance & achieving financial goals.
Identifying, defining & solving complex problems that impact the management & direction of the business.
Collaborating with Services Areas, Regions & Health Ministries to ensure consistency & integration of strategy & operations while maintaining awareness of new industry developments & standards.
Providing decision support, operations & / or optimization leadership focus.
Leading strategic sourcing activities for complex initiatives with the goal/ability of achieving significant cost reductions, supplanted with year-over-year cost and productivity improvements in the total cost of goods and services procured while maintaining or improving product quality and vendor service levels.
Managing several simultaneous competitive sourcing processes, complex contract negotiations of high value, and limiting exposure to the System on high-risk projects.
Making decisions and managing risks that impact day-to-day operations.
Maintaining business relationships with suppliers and Trinity's group purchasing organization (GPO).
Negotiating terms supporting the business plan objectives and protecting Trinity from business continuity risk.
Working with legal to develop contracts to memorialize terms and conditions of the trade relationship.
Monitoring supplier performance and conducting business reviews.
Representing Trinity's interest on advisory boards, providing guidance on the GPO negotiation strategies, and supporting contract implementation across the ministry.
Driving system compliance by optimizing the use of national group purchasing, custom group purchasing, and Trinity Health system agreements.
Conducting competitive sourcing and negotiation process on initiatives with moderate risk and value, which include but are not limited to direct and indirect supplies, services and equipment.
Analyzing responses, reviewing product/service/equipment/IT information to determine applicability, performing cost benefit analyses, developing reports and presenting findings.
Determining favorable quotes and/or negotiating with vendors to obtain optimal price, terms and conditions.
Collecting, cleaning, and validating large datasets from multiple sources to ensure accuracy and integrity.
Analyzing data to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies that inform business strategies.
Developing and maintaining dashboards, reports, and visualizations using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Excel or similar platforms.
Performing ad-hoc analysis and providing actionable recommendations to stakeholders.
Conducting category assessments including spend analysis, demand forecasting, supply market intelligence, and risk evaluation to identify value creation opportunities.
Leading enterprise spend management activities across assigned categories, ensuring alignment with organizational financial goals and budget targets.
Prioritizing projects for assigned commodities.
Leading strategy development, managing Request for Information (RFI), Request for Proposal (RFP), and Request for Quotation (RFQ) processes.
Leading analysis and negotiations.
Leading cross-functional teams for strategic sourcing initiatives to drive system-wide standardization, cost reductions, service and quality excellence, knowledge transfer for replication of best practice, information technology development and assisting with local implementation of various activities.
Developing, executing and communicating sourcing strategies in collaboration with senior level management, Value Analysis, Operations, TIS, and key stakeholders on overall process, timing, and objectives.
Managing relationships to ensure internal customers and stakeholders are actively engaged.
Promoting a lean/process excellence culture.
Participating in joint quality improvement initiatives with SO and RHM colleagues.
Motivating and leading strategic sourcing lean program initiatives to increase productivity and improve end-to-end process efficiencies.
Engaging suppliers in the selection processes and maintaining business relationships that are conducted legally, ethically and in accordance with Trinity Health Policies/Procedures and the Organizational Integrity Program.
Developing a primary liaison for key suppliers within the assigned category.
Conducting business reviews with key suppliers.
Serving as the subject matter expert for all category supplier engagement questions from Trinity colleagues.
Maintaining business relationships with the GPO leadership and staff.
Providing input on sourcing strategy and representing Trinity on advisory boards as assigned.
Planning, managing and overseeing the life cycle of complex small to medium sourcing projects.
Reviewing, red-lining and drafting contract language for discussion.
Working closely with legal for contract issues requiring legal input.
Utilizing Supply Chain Management’s digital systems, including strategic sourcing and contract lifecycle management applications, and ensuring adoption and use by team.
Partnering with the Finance department to ensure that forecasted savings are validated.
Ensuring effective handoff of executed contracts to business owner, Supply Chain verticals, and other stakeholder departments as applicable.
Tracking and measuring supplier performance against scorecards on an ongoing basis.
Conducting supplier Business Reviews as necessary.
Facilitating dialogue with local business owners, RHM senior management, and Supply Chain staff to remove barriers when necessary.
Engaging suppliers and RHMs to ensure timely resolution of service issue(s).
Establishing procedures for managing a comprehensive sourcing process for assigned products/services/IT across Trinity Health.
Performing other duties as required in a competent, professional, and courteous manner.