Strategic Sourcing Manager

What you'll do:

• Partner with clients to identify and deliver savings, and quality and process improvements in accordance with client and business objectives
• Develop a strong understanding of client's business needs and challenges in order to create, maintain, and refresh the pipeline of opportunities
• Lead competitive sourcing processes, RFPs, supplier selection, capital acquisition, negotiation, financial analysis, and contracting
• Manage client relationships through building trust, communicating clearly, setting and meeting expectations, and applying change management practices
• Build and maintain a strong command of clinical laboratory technology, market changes, and product development, leveraging continuous learning in identifying opportunities at clients
• Leverage colleagues and subject matter experts to identify opportunities, accelerate project execution, and increase technical understanding
• Advance the project management, market intelligence, and technology tools, as well as operational metrics and performance measurement
• Collaborate across service lines to initiate project opportunities at clients across the portfolio and build your own subject matter expertise
• Present subject matter expertise to the wider team to drive understanding and new initiatives
• Promote and secure client engagement extensions, and additional business
• Complete other duties as assigned

What you bring:

• Bachelor's Degree in business, engineering, or science major preferred
• 3+ years of experience in supply chain management
• Experience in project management with multiple full lifecycle Supply Chain Strategy engagements
• Success in strategic sourcing and contracts, production planning and capital analysis
• Proficiency in the use of analytics to measure and improve efficiencies and collaboration
• Proven experience in operational improvements, business case development, change management, and performance measurements