Sourcing Manager

Sourcing Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 5 years of sourcing experience.
• Experience leading category strategies, supplier relationship management, sourcing initiatives.
• Experience negotiating with outside vendors, including negotiating contracts, prices and reconciling differences.
• Experienced in documenting procedures and internal controls.
• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Experience controlling and coordinating concurrent projects, competing priorities and critical deadlines.
• Ability to work across multiple time zones and locations.
• Position requires travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (domestic and international).

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiations for favorable terms, volume discounts, and long-term contracts with suppliers and vendor partners.
• Oversee direct spend categories to drive cost efficiency, maintain supply continuity, and reduce risks while aligning with organizational goals.
• Manage up to $150M spend across key medical and raw materials.
• Provide strategic insights on Global and geopolitical changes impacting tariffs, raw materials and regulatory requirements.
• Manage a broad portfolio of managed categories leveraging sourcing experience to drive continuous improvement across all Category Managers.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies to support business objectives.
• Analyze supplier price increase submissions and evaluate their total impact against rebates to understand the financial effect on the division.
• Execute on strategic risks identified by Category Managers by developing country-specific sourcing risk assessments.
• Manage a broad mix of product categories and become the subject matter expert on product requirements, manufacturing processes, raw materials, and other value drivers.
• Build and maintain relationships with key suppliers, negotiating pricing, managing supplier performance, ensuring on-time delivery, and enforcing compliance with contracts.
• Provide insights on domestic and global supply chains, assessing the impact of tariffs and other geopolitical risks.
• Oversee the evaluation of sourcing strategies for domestic versus import suppliers, driving Make vs. Buy analysis for sourced products.
• Drive the identification of cost-savings opportunities within assigned product categories to achieve GM growth.
• Work collaboratively with Medline Shanghai, Supply Chain, Quality and Product Management teams to maintain and develop vendors and products.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.