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- Category Strategy and Planning
- Partner with the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) and business leaders to develop multi‑year category strategies for business services aligned to enterprise priorities.
- Partner with business owners to forecast demand, define sourcing roadmaps, and align to budget cycles.
- Conduct market intelligence on business service providers, pricing models, and sourcing opportunities.
- Identify cost savings, operational efficiency, value improvement, and risk mitigation opportunities.
- Strategic Sourcing and Contracting
- Lead end‑to‑end sourcing events (RFx), including requirements gathering, supplier evaluation, bid analysis, and award recommendations.
- Negotiate commercial terms, pricing structures, performance‑based models, and service frameworks.
- Drive measurable savings through competitive sourcing, benchmarking, and renegotiation strategies.
- Drive contract lifecycle including renewals, extensions, amendments, and rebids to optimize total cost of ownership.
- Ensure contracts include compliant and enforceable SLAs, KPIs, audit rights, regulatory terms, and risk protections.
- Vendor Governance and Performance Oversight
- Provide vendor oversight for business service suppliers, owning commercial performance of vendors, including cost, value realization, and contract adherence.
- Partner with business owners and/or vendor managers to ensure alignment between financial outcomes and operational performance.
- Partner with Vendor Managers and Business Service owners to ensure governance, QBRs, continuous improvement, and issue resolution.
- Partner with Vendor Management, Risk, Legal, and Compliance to ensure oversight and risk controls.
- Financial and Value Management
- Analyze business service vendor spend, utilization, and cost drivers to identify optimization opportunities; deliver and track quantifiable cost savings, cost avoidance, and value creation across business service spend.
- Validate pricing, invoices, rate structures, and cost allocation accuracy.
- Develop business cases supporting vendor selection, cost savings, and transitioning services.
- Support budget planning with Finance and business owners.
- Stakeholder and Cross-Departmental Collaboration
- Serve as procurement strategic advisor to business units across HMSA.
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Finance, HR, Marketing, Facilities, and other corporate teams.
- Influence decision‑making to ensure enterprise‑aligned vendor and sourcing strategies.
- Guide business areas and stakeholders on procurement governance, contract requirements, and vendor best practices.
- Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.
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Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Healthcare Administration, Finance, or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Seven years of progressive experience in procurement, sourcing category management, or vendor management.
- Experience negotiating mid to large service‑based contracts, professional services, and business service agreements.
- Strong understanding of healthcare business service domains
- Ability to analyze business service spend, commercial terms, and cost structures
- Strong familiarity with business service sourcing, procurement best practices, and vendor selection processes
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving, commercial negotiation, and financial modeling capabilities tailored for operations environments
- Deep understanding of commercial terms, service SLAs, KPIs, risk clauses, compliance terms, and contract protections.
- Ability to review and interpret vendor proposals, pricing models, and service scopes.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret complex requirements, service dependencies, and contract cost structures.
- Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Office Suite, including the ability to build and interpret Excel models for healthcare operations spend, licensing, and forecasting.
- Ability to work with procurement and contract management systems for contract lifecycle activities (e.g., Source to Pay, ERP, etc.).
- Familiarity with service management or ticketing tools and basic understanding of how procurement workflow systems operate.
- Ability to analyze data exports from vendor systems or procurement platforms.
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