The Strategic Sourcing department is a key function within OHSU that focuses on optimizing the procurement of purchase services and goods. This team is instrumental in identifying, evaluating, and selecting contractors that align with OHSU's strategic goals. This involves assessing contractors' capabilities, financial stability, and performance. Overall, Strategic Sourcing aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of procurement processes, ensuring that OHSU achieves the best possible value from its contractors while supporting its broader strategic objectives. This position will partner with the Contracts Manager to drive the process of completing agreements initiated during the sourcing process.
This position is responsible for sourcing products or services that provide OHSU exceptional quality while maintaining a total cost of ownership (TCO) that is most beneficial to OHSU, its stakeholders, and its patients. This position coordinates efficiencies through enterprise-wide purchasing volume and negotiating with suppliers. As the leader responsible for procurement effectiveness on a category of products or services, the Sourcing Manager will lead projects, analyze data, work with teams and manage policies, processes and resources on a large scale.
This positions functions as part of a broader sourcing team, sharing best practices, adopting practices across the departments and beyond, acts as a back-up to other staff, participates or leads process improvement initiatives within the department. Acts as a subject matter expert in assigned categories. Provides product, service and category expertise for assigned categories of spend. Conducts oversight and evaluation of all governance checkpoints in the Sourcing Methodology. Completes proper documentation of performance in regard to the Sourcing Methodology.
Works on complex spend categories achieving lower total cost of ownership. Complex categories have fragmented spend, multiple business unit impacts, limited leverage position, complex contract terms requiring a high degree of understanding of appropriate process, tool and skill.
Identifies sourcing initiatives and completes the sourcing methodology process: Opportunity initiation, internal analysis, industry analysis, business knowledge and procurement expertise to develop strategic sourcing strategies, supplier selection and operationalizing the selection. Successfully completes process deliverables for checkpoints and validation with stakeholders.
Defines and provides direction to customers on contracted items and appropriate purchasing method. Facilitate dispute resolution items with respect to contracts for assigned categories.
Manages supplier communication, strategy and direction for the sourcing process. Coordinates with other team members to take a holistic approach with suppliers involved. Manages reference site and supplier site visits in the sourcing process.
Ensures that customer needs are met in a timely manner including communication with requestors and suppliers. Acts as a liaison between Sourcing and non-SC& L departments (such as AP, ITG, HR, etc.)
Captures all savings (direct and indirect) from the sourcing efforts assigned. Responsible for submitting savings and justification and assisting in validation and confirmation of the savings.
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This position is primarily telework with onsite requirements, as in-person facilitation and reviews may be required. Hours are typically 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday.
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