Advisor - Strategic Sourcing Indirect Procurement

What Strategic Sourcing - Indirect contributes to Cardinal Health

Global Sourcing 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. Develops and executes strategic plans by leveraging market intelligence, industry knowledge and cross-functional collaboration. Competitive advantage is created through supplier selection and management, contract negotiation, supply chain optimization and risk mitigation.

Strategic Sourcing Indirect is responsible for developing and executing strategy to source indirect goods and services to support our business stakeholders and programs. Perform analysis in order to select supplier and negotiate best value for Cardinal Health. Provide supplier relationship management and contract compliance management, including maximization of financial deliverables and risk mitigation. May work within various procurement systems to execute purchase orders and resolve technical issues as identified.

Job Summary

The Advisor, Strategic Sourcing is responsible for end-to-end sourcing for an indirect category(ies). This job develops relations with category business partners to understand and determine the sourcing needs of the business. The Advisor Strategic Sourcing executes the competitive bid, negotiation, contracting processes and/or technical continuous improvement for assigned commodities or services. This job leverages spend analytics and market intelligence to identify cost optimization opportunities in the sourcing of goods and services.

Responsibilities

• Manages relationships with vendors including vendor selection, elimination and performance review activities.
• Develops requests for projects, reviews bids, and negotiates contracts with third party vendors.
• Works with business partners to determine sourcing needs and provide indirect sourcing support.
• Collaborates cross functionally with legal on sourcing contract drafting, negotiations and finalization with third party vendors.
• Maintains a working knowledge of existing contracts to navigate contract extensions and supplier relations.
• Submits purchase orders, requests approval and inputs contracts into sourcing systems.
• Stays abreast of strategic projects to ensure timely execution of sourcing demands.

Internal Qualifications

At least 2 years of experience but preferably with category/procurement background

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in procurement, with a strong track record in indirect sourcing, required

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience demonstrating procurement expertise, preferred

• Proficiency in sourcing tools such as Ariba or similar platforms, with hands-on experience in contract lifecycle management, preferred

• Strong understanding of contract review processes, including risk mitigation and compliance.

• Category management expertise, particularly in IT Software and other indirect categories, required

• Proven ability to manage multiple categories and complex sourcing projects independently.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage effectively across functions.

• Experience working on cross-functional projects, preferably in a collaborative team setting, required

• Background in US Procurement or in a Global Procurement environment, required

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects
• May contribute to the development of policies and procedures
• Works on complex projects of large scope
• Develops technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems
• Solutions are innovative and consistent with organization objectives
• Completes work; independently receives general guidance on new projects
• Work reviewed for purpose of meeting objectives
• May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day.