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Cambia Health Solutions Strategic Sourcing Manager (Indirect) in Spokane, Washington
STRATEGIC SOURCING MANAGER (Indirect) (HEALTHCARE) Work a hybrid schedule within Oregon, Washington, Idaho or Utah Build a career with purpose. Join our Cause to create a person-focused and economically sustainable health care system. Who We Are Looking For: Every day, Cambia's dedicated Sourcing Team is living our mission to make health care easier and lives better. As a member of the Sourcing Team, you'll deliver best-in-class strategic sourcing, contract management, and negotiation for complex, indirect spend categories. Develop category strategies, serve as the primary contact for business customers, and drive fact-based group decisions with significant operational or financial impact. - all in service of making our members' health journeys easier. If you're a motivated and results-driven sourcing professional looking to make a difference in strategic sourcing and contract management, apply for this exciting opportunity today! What You Bring to Cambia: Qualifications and Certifications: * The Strategic Sourcing Manager II would have a Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, or related field and 7 years sourcing and contracting experience or related field. Skills and Attributes: * Create and influence category strategies within assigned business units. * Apply in-depth knowledge to solve broad issues that are complex in scope, and establish medium to long- range plans. * Lead favorable results through providing leadership to the function. * Develop sustainable strategies for moderately complex categories that include spend analysis, market and geographic considerations, and strategic importance, etc. * Negotiate and manage contracts moderate in complexity for assigned commodities ensuring the relentless pursuit of cost savings and favorable terms. * Recommend and implement sourcing, contracting and supplier management policies and procedures that provide for financial strength of the company and asset security. * Drive continuous improvement in all aspects of the procurement process including the evaluation of existing contracts for savings opportunities. * * Develop sustainable sourcing strategies for assigned spend categories by considering spend profiles, market and geographic considerations, Cambia's strategic objectives, etc. * Lead sourcing events that produce value in alignment with Cambia's objectives. * Negotiate contracts and craft SOWs for assigned spend categories in order to obtain the best value to the company through favorable contracting terms and pricing. * Prepare and present contract executive summaries and obtain contract approvals in accordance to governance policies. * Create, manage and promote sound relationships with strategic suppliers and internal business partners. * Partner with Supplier Relationship Managers as needed to resolve supplier issues. What You Will Do at Cambia: * In depth knowledge of sourcing and contract fundamentals. Demonstrated knowledge of indirect spend categories, contracting skills and principles, laws, regulations, and industry standards. * Prior experience in all elements of sourcing and category management for indirect services, including professional services and business process outsourcing. * Experience in the 7-step strategic sourcing process with emphasis in the areas of category strategy development, RFx sourcing processes and contract management. * Prior experience in desired spend categories. * Project management skills with the ability to lead and prioritize activities. * Strong leadership and change management skills * Demonstrated strong experience in leading major sourc To view the full job description,
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