What Strategic Sourcing - Global Products contributes to Cardinal Health

Global Strategic Sourcing develops and manages diverse strategic supplier partnerships that foster enterprise value with innovation, best cost and competitive advantages that benefit customers, suppliers, and patients. Reporting to the Senior Manager – Strategic Sourcing, the Sourcing Manager leads assigned sourcing strategies and supplier relationships supporting (but not limited to) the Compression portfolio, including compression sleeves, anti-embolism stockings, tube sets, and related finished goods and externally sourced components. This individual independently leads complex sourcing initiatives from opportunity identification through negotiation, implementation, and financial validation. Success requires sound commercial judgment, strong analytical skills, and consistent follow-through to deliver measurable results while protecting product quality and continuity of supply. Being able to develop and execute strategic plans by clearly understanding the spending 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.

Responsibilities

·   Develop and execute sourcing strategies for assigned products and suppliers, using spend analysis, market intelligence, cost drivers, and stakeholder input to recommend priorities and sourcing decisions.

·   Lead requests for information, proposals, and quotations; evaluate supplier capability, capacity, quality, financial health, and total cost; and present evidence-based award recommendations.

·   Solid experience in commodities, including technical product knowledge, cost drivers, related industry dynamics and market trends.

·   Lead supplier negotiations covering pricing, annual productivity, payment terms, rebates, volume commitments, capacity, and other commercial terms. Partner with Legal and business stakeholders to finalize and implement agreements within delegated authority.

·   Build and maintain a prioritized savings pipeline. Lead cost reduction, value engineering, supplier development, and sourcing transfer initiatives through approved implementation plans, with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and escalation paths.

·   Validate baselines, timing, assumptions, and realized benefits with Finance. Maintain accurate savings forecasts and explain purchase price variance, volume and mix effects, implementation costs, and gaps between negotiated and realized savings.

·   Develop Excel models for supplier comparisons, total landed cost, and make-versus-buy decisions. Evaluate material, labor, conversion, scrap, freight, duties, inventory, and working capital assumptions; test scenarios and recommend actions.

·   Manage supplier relationships through performance reviews, scorecards, and documented action plans. Address delivery, cost, capacity, and commercial issues; coordinate with Supplier Quality on quality-related actions.

·   Assess supplier concentration, material obsolescence, capacity constraints, and geographic exposure. Develop alternative sourcing and supply continuity plans with Operations, Planning, Quality, and other stakeholders.

·   Coordinate qualification and implementation activities with Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, and Planning. Partner with raw material and packaging sourcing colleagues where initiatives span category boundaries, and follow required change controls and approvals.

·   Prepare concise PowerPoint presentations and business cases for portfolio and leadership reviews. Maintain reliable project records and action logs, communicate decisions and risks early, and implement improvements to sourcing processes and reporting.

Qualifications and capabilities

·   Demonstrated experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, or supplier management, including independent ownership of complex initiatives and measurable business results.

·   Strong supplier negotiation and contracting skills, including preparation of negotiation strategies, evaluation of trade-offs, stakeholder alignment, and implementation of agreed commercial terms.

·   Advanced Excel skills, including PivotTables, lookup functions, SUMIFS, data reconciliation, scenario analysis, and financial models. Ability to build auditable analyses and translate findings into recommendations.

·   Strong PowerPoint skills to create clear business cases and leadership presentations; proficiency in Word for structured documents and tracked changes; effective use of Outlook, Teams, and shared document tools to coordinate work.

·   Financial and analytical capability to evaluate cost structures, total cost of ownership, savings baselines, forecasts, and supplier pricing proposals. Ability to recognize inconsistent data and resolve underlying assumptions.

·   Strong project management and prioritization skills, with a demonstrated record of meeting commitments, closing actions, and escalating risks with practical recovery recommendations.

·   Clear written and verbal communication, professional supplier engagement, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.

·   A self-directed approach, personal accountability, and a continuous improvement mindset. Proactively identifies opportunities, challenges assumptions constructively, and follows recommendations through to completion.

Preferred qualifications

·   Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, finance, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

·   7 or more years of relevant experience, preferably in medical devices, healthcare manufacturing, or another regulated manufacturing environment.

·   Experience with finished goods sourcing, contract manufacturing, private label products, or sourcing decisions involving internal manufacturing and external suppliers.

·   Experience with global suppliers and cross-border supply chains, including commercial cost implications of freight, duties, currency, and inventory.

·   Familiarity with enterprise resource planning and procurement systems such as SAP, savings or project tracking systems, and data visualization tools. Power Query, Power BI, or Tableau experience is a plus.

·   Professional certification such as CPSM, CSCP, or PMP, and experience with Lean or other structured continuous improvement methods.

What is expected of you and others at this level

·   Apply advanced sourcing knowledge and commercial judgment to complex projects with significant business impact.

·   Receive direction on overall objectives and independently determine the approach, analysis, and execution plan for assigned work.

·   Partner with cross-functional peers and leaders to lead workstreams, recommend improvements to processes and metrics, and serve as a sourcing subject matter resource for assigned products and suppliers.

·   Own the accuracy of recommendations, forecasts, and status reporting; deliver agreed outcomes and raise issues early when commitments are at risk.

·   Independently determines method for completion of new projects

·   Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or model

Travel Ability to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require, anticipated up to 20%

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