Strategic Sourcing Program Manager

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

The Procurement Program Manager will oversee the portfolio of projects supporting the Procurement organization globally. They will support processes internal to the Procurement organization to reduce administration and increase collaboration, with the goal of providing Procurement staff access to the resources, tools, and information needed to be effective supply chain agents. As part of the Supply Chain Shared Services team, the Procurement Program Manager will also lead development of global standard work, with special focus on process improvement for Procurement and lead training workshops for Procurement program alignment and rollout. These projects will be focused on ownership of programs supporting supplier lifecycle & relationship management, risk, free cash flow, and compliance within the Procurement function across the enterprise and sites. 

 

This is a fully remote role with the requirement of living within the United States. Occasional travel may be required per business needs. 5%-15% domestic travel. 2% international travel.

What You'll do as a Program Manager

Business Transformation Organization Support

• Facilitate the development and review of department strategic objectives and align project portfolio accordingly.
• Assists with on-going standardization and integration related initiatives such as rationalizing our supply base, improving our standard cost setting process, and establishing standard work.
• Collaborate with supply chain and business partners on implementation plans with Procurement projects.
• Manage communication of program metrics, project updates, and process changes within the department and with appropriate stakeholders throughout STERIS.
• Collect analytic data for department metrics and develop custom reporting visual management tools to monitor success and financial impact.
• Develop and manage relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Assist in leading the effort in charting the path for future from a Procurement standpoint including supply base analytics, enterprise internal negotiations, risk tracking and mitigation, business continuity planning, and sourcing roadmap development.

Organization Portfolio Management

• Manage organization knowledge through the STERIS Business System to share training, tools, standards, best practices to promote business transformation.
• Drives coherent program strategies involving multiple interrelated sites, product lines, personnel, systems, and functions.
• Collaborate with business partners, owners, and developers to promote agile improvement of high-quality resources across STERIS, including standards, templates, web application features, reference guides, instructor-led training slides, and eLearning training modules.
• Lead strategic projects and those focused on improving internal Procurement processes to increase accountability, reduce administrative waste, and share knowledge throughout the organization.
• Monitors various projects to ensure they are on target to meet their objectives and are in line with key constraints.
• Engage with cross functional teams like finance, SIOP, R&D, manufacturing, quality, and project management to ensure goals and priorities are met through influencing and building strong partnerships.

Continuous Improvement Activities

• Lead cross-functional Kaizen events with strategic impact (appx. quarterly).
• Provide Procurement program subject matter expertise support for global sites and shared services (appx. weekly).
• Conduct Procurement training workshops (1-3 annually).

What Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed

Required

• Bachelor's Degree. 
• 8+ years of Procurement/Supply Chain experience. 
• 6-8 years of digital management and data analytics experience. 
• 3-5 years of working in a lean environment, participating in Kaizen events, and other CI/Lean initiatives.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams/projects.

 

Preferred

• Excellent knowledge working with Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, and Teams.
• Familiarit