Strategic Sourcing Manager- Remote

Sentara Health is currently hiring a Strategic Sourcing Manager - Remote!

Be a part of an excellent healthcare organization that cares about our People, Quality, Patient Safety, Service, and Integrity. Join a team that has a mission to improve health every day and a vision to be the healthcare choice of the communities that we serve!

This is aFull-Timeposition, fully remote, with day shift hours and great benefits!

Standard Working Hours: 8:00AM to 5:00PM (flexibility will be considered as needed).

Work Location: This position has a remote opportunity. Candidates that are local to the Hampton Roads area may be required to report to the office a couple of times per week.

Remote opportunities available in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington (state), West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

To apply, please go to www.sentaracareers.com and use the following as your Keyword Search: JR-66281

Top Responsibilities for a Sentara Sourcing Manager

1.Must have strong research and problem-solving skills to find reliable suppliers

2.Must have experience in sourcing, preferably in healthcare sourcing

3.Strong negotiating skills with regards to contracts and terms. Specifically in healthcare pertaining to pricing, payment terms, confidentiality, warranties, and services.

4.Strong in collaborative relationship building with executive leadership, suppliers, external customers, and cross-functional teams.

5.Capable of monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) of suppliers to ensure they meet agreed upon the standards

6.Experience in comparing multiple suppliers considering factors such as cost, quality, and delivery timelines - strong analytical skills

7.Strong communication skills and experience in working with the executive teams and cross-functional teams.

8.Manages projects, performs analytics, facilitates change management, and identifies process improvement initiatives across various phases of Supply Chain.

9.Presents data metrics to support leadership decision-making.

10.Maintains knowledge of the Group Purchasing Organization's and Sentara Health System's clinical contract portfolio to leverage and utilize appropriate agreements. Coordinates and maintains system compliance by optimizing these agreements.

11.Develops sourcing strategy through pricing rationale based on data and clinical input to Strategic Sourcing Leadership for contract awards for products and services, including specifications, price structures, payment terms, risk/share arrangements, service requirements/penalties, and warranty coverage.

Requirements:

• Required to have bachelor's degree
• Required to have 3 to 5 years of sourcing or Healthcare Management related experience
• Clinical background in nursing, education, process improvement, or related - strongly preferred.
• Master's Degree in Nursing, Sciences, Healthcare Management or Business - preferred
• Related experience in Patient Care/Lab/Women's Care/Pediatrics- strongly preferred
• Other areas of related experience may be accepted

SentaraOverview

For more than a decade, Modern Healthcare magazine has ranked Sentara Healthcare as one of the nation's top integrated healthcare systems. That's because we are dedicated to growth, innovation, and patient safety at more than 300 sites of care in Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, including 12 acute care hospitals.

Sentara Benefits

As the third-largest employer in Virginia, Sentara Healthcare was named by Forbes Magazine as one of America's best large employers. We offer a variety of amenities to our employees, including, but not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Paid Annual Leave, Sick Leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Retirement funds with matching contribution
• Supplemental insurance policies, including legal, Life Insurance and AD&D among others
• Work Perks program including discounted movie and theme park tickets among other great deals
• Opportunities for further advancement within our organization

Sentara employees strive to make our communities healthier places to live. We're setting the standard for medical excellence within avibrant, creative, and highly productive workplace. For information about our employee benefits, please visit:Benefits - Sentara (sentaracareers.com)

Join our team!We are committed to quality healthcare, improving health every day, and provide the opportunity for training, development, and growth!

Note: Sentara Health offers employees comprehensive health & welfare and retirement benefits (401(k)/403(b) with employer match) designed with you and your family's well-beingin mind. You have a variety of options for medical, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, disability, educational assistance, student loan repayment and voluntary benefits as well as Paid Time Off in the form of sick time, vacation time and paid parental leave.Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Salary Range: $93,693.60 to $129,292.80 annually.

Diversity and Inclusion at Sentara

Our vision is that everyone brings the strengths that come with diversity to work with them every day. When we are achieving our vision, we have team members that feel they belong and can be their authentic selves, and our workforce is reflective of the communities we serve.

We are realizing this vision through our Diversity and Inclusion strategy, which has three pillars: A diverse and talented workforce, an inclusive and supportive workplace, and outreach and engagement with our community. We have made remarkable strides in these areas over the past several years and, as our world continues to evolve, we know our work is never done.

Our strategies focus on bothstructural inclusion, which looks at our organizational structures, processes, and practices; as well asbehavioral inclusion, which evaluates our mindsets, skillsets, and relationships. Together, these strategies are moving our organization forward in an environment that fosters a culture of mutual respect and belonging for all.

Please visit the link below to learn more about Sentara's commitment to diversity and inclusion:

https://www.sentara.com/aboutus/diversity

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