Manager, Global Sourcing Global Products

Global Procurement is responsible for creating and managing diverse strategic supplier partnerships that drive enterprise value with innovation, best cost and competitive advantages that benefit customers, suppliers and patients. The Manager, Strategic Sourcing Global Products leads the development and execution of the strategic plans by clearly understanding the spend and stakeholder landscape, leveraging market intelligence, industry knowledge and cross-functional collaboration. Competitive advantage is created through end-to-end category management bringing the best available value through assurance of supply, quality, service levels, innovation and cost, achieved through supplier selection and management, contract negotiation, supply chain optimization and risk mitigation.

The core competences for this impactful role are:

• Develops deep industry insights leveraging outside-in supply market intelligence and industry insights

• Strategic thinking to develop longer-range supply strategies and plans that drive significant value while meeting the business requirements

• Deep stakeholder engagement to influencing business decisions relevant to the category strategy

• Strong cross-functional leadership skills to drive continuous progress against the strategic category plans

• Sets aggressive continuous improvement goals for assigned categories and explores a broad set of value levers to deliver on targets

• Functions as Subject Matter Expert for assigned categories

Responsibilities

• Leads the development of Incontinence, Women & Baby, Feminine Hygiene and medical essentials category strategies to achieve best total value, sustainable productivity and high levels of quality and service aligned with business objectives. Accountable for ~$80-90M of global spend for the Medical Segment.

• Manage a portfolio of products utilized in support of the medical segment businesses, which include finished goods commercialized under a vendor brand or the Cardinal Health brand finished good that go into kitting or sold through a distribution.

• Creates collaborative business plans with strategic suppliers, develops negotiation strategies, and directs the execution of strategic programs.

• Ensures all goods and services meet established standards and legal requirements. Addresses functional and commercial teams’ concerns/issues, requests, and questions and resolves within legal/tax and corporate guidelines.

• Plans, develops, and implements complex business strategies through the establishment of short/long-range objectives, change management, performance goals, and metrics for each spend category.

• Collaborates with internal and external resources to champion enterprise wide cross-functional sourcing initiatives. Understands category specific details and Med Segment operational principles and produces analytics that contributes to the formation of budgets and effective P&L management by the business units supported. As appropriate, ensures close collaborations with Procurement Operations and related functions in the Americas, EMEA and APAC.

• Directs and executes budgetary cost reduction programs and initiatives that facilitate business owners achieving their business unit goals and financial targets. Assures the appropriate use of capital and financial resources. Generates analytics to support these positions.

• Directly manages complex negotiations with key suppliers that require a detailed strategic plan and that have a direct correlation with Corporate operational needs and/or goals.

• Decision maker and subject matter expert for risk management allowances, terms/conditions, pricing; and collaborative partner for matters of product engineering, supply chain, quality & regulatory, transportation, and global trade.

• Manages the development of and adherence to policies/procedures to ensure goods and services are available to business units and collaborates closely with quality/regulatory and supply chain to ensure working practices are implemented that ensure sufficient inventory levels and/or supply chain availability to support all events to avoid negative budgetary/P&L impacts.

• Conducts industry specific research, benchmarking, financial and business analytics for long range pricing and buy rationalizations.

• Proactive leadership and management with cross-functional partners to effectively select suppliers, negotiate favorable contracts and manage supplier performance and relationships.

• Understand the supplier portfolio, risk profile and develop mitigation actions and plans.

• Collaborate with and influence business partners in a highly matrixed environment to optimize key supplier per