Position Summary:
This position will be responsible for the sourcing operations for clinical and non-clinical purchased services category management and sourcing for a large healthcare client. As a key member of our Client Services team, you will manage engagements across a range of purchased services categories, including MedSurg Distribution services, equipment rental services and specialty lab services. You will be responsible for leading the sourcing strategies, engaging with stakeholders, and optimizing spend, ensuring compliance with healthcare procurement standards, and driving cost-saving initiatives. This role will report directly to the Managing Director, Sourcing and Procurement.
Responsibilities:
- Develop cost savings and strategic sourcing projects across the assigned areas of clinical and non-clinical purchased services categories, including but not limited to:
- Manage spend, supplier, and market data from the client and LogicSource resources to analyze both savings opportunities and value chain impacts.
- Lead supplier market RFI / RFP activities, including execution, readouts, and business case implications. Meet with potential participants, both incumbents and non-incumbents, answer RFP-related questions from vendors, analyze RFP results, and support final vendor(s) awards.
- Drive annual productivity improvements across assigned Purchased services categories by developing and ensuring implementation of ideas to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Support the development of new policies and procedures to drive savings and lead operational change management within clinical services spend.
- Leverage LogicSource’s Center of Excellence (COE) category experts to assess market conditions, spend leverage opportunities, benchmarking data, RFP builds, and related activities in clinical services.
- Support and lead sourcing events, including vendor sourcing, vendor and contract negotiations for the assigned purchased services categories.
- Onboard new suppliers for the assigned purchased services areas.
- Bring sourcing efficiency to all assigned purchased services activity; define specific roadmaps containing prioritization of purchased services categories.
- Lead research and analytics efforts to validate savings projections and enable more precise supplier negotiations.
- Review major contracts for key purchased services spend areas and act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for planning and leading complex negotiations or re-supply modeling.
- Consistently monitor and evaluate savings against targets by category, sub-category, and supplier.
- Develop PPV (product price variance) trackers to ensure improved price/savings baseline analysis for purchased services.
- Develop and communicate purchased services supply chain or sourcing strategy to a diverse group of managers and senior-level professionals at the client.
- Source suppliers and build a best-in-class purchased services supply chain; cultivate and manage relationships with best-in-class purchased services providers.
- Build supplier management and continuous improvement methodologies with key suppliers for purchased services.
- Establish and implement a purchased services supplier management structure and process; audit and vet vendors.
- Work cross-functionally to deliver sourcing and procurement cost savings, risk mitigation projects, and supplier-enabled innovation across the assigned purchased services categories.
- Aggressive focus on achieving overall purchased services category cost savings.
