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    Strategic Sourcing Specialist - Irving, United States - Vizient

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    When you're the best, we're the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

    Summary:

    In this role, you will ensure that ALL third parties working with company that have or plan to expand operations offshore are in alignment with the company's offshore strategy (i.e. strong business case, acceptable geopolitical risk, sufficient contractual coverage, etc.). This will involve reviewing each requests business case and conducting the contractual negotiations of offshore terms with the respective vendors.

    Responsibilities:

    • Pursue effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members.
    • Pursue self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
    • Collaborate cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for the team.
    • Support the continuous improvement of sourcing processes by analyzing standard and non-standard operational data and performance metrics to support value optimization of awarded contracts; monitoring and ensuring supplier compliance for standard and nonstandard contract terms, including product/service quality, payment terms, and shipping requirements; and executing the fulfillment of standard and nonstandard stakeholder needs to foster stakeholder relationships.
    • Support the strategic procurement of goods and services by monitoring the internal and external environment for trends and practices that can inform standard and nonstandard strategic opportunities; and performing standard and nonstandard market and sourcing analyses to optimize sourcing strategy, supplier selection, and procurement implementation, independently with limited direction.
    • Contributes to the sourcing strategy definition by supporting standard and nonstandard category profiles, savings plans, targets, and forecasts; and executing standard and nonstandard sourcing, communication, and governance processes.
    • Contribute to the creation of the sourcing strategy by evaluating options and products/services to develop standard and nonstandard sourcing plans; collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to exchange and interpret information to incorporate input and socialize standard and nonstandard category sourcing strategies/plans; and reporting the results of strategic analyses to inform sourcing strategy creation.
    • Contribute to the implementation of sourcing strategy by: developing and executing requests for proposals and standard bidding documents to generate options; performing standard and nonstandard proposal analyses to inform supplier selection; negotiating standard pricing and contract terms (e.g., delivery, quality, performance) with suppliers, and escalating negotiations, when necessary, for products and services to ensure company receives the best value for dollars spent; assisting in drafting and modification of new business terms in contract documents; analyzing standard and nonstandard options to determine contract awards and socializing recommendations with internal and external stakeholders; and executing implementation plans for sourcing strategy.

    Qualifications:

    • Relevant degree preferred in Business Administration, Finance, Material Management, Economics, or related field.
    • 5 or more years of relevant experience required.
    • Experience in purchasing, contracting, material management, finance, or related field.
    • Experience with IT audit or ISO 27001/SOC 2 or equivalent a plus.
    • Experience in a healthcare or another heavily regulated industry (e.g., Banking).
    • Data analytics experience preferred.

    Estimated Hiring Range:

    $77, $115,050.00

    This position is also incentive eligible.

    Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan Please view our benefits here:

    Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

    The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.



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