Advisor, Strategic Sourcing Global Products – Portfolio Gap Launch Team

What Strategic Sourcing - Global Products 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.

This position is responsible for coordinating and executing new product introduction and commercialization projects for medical products sourced from third-party medical device manufacturers and/or self/contract manufactured. The Advisor collaborates with Marketing, Sourcing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Logistics, and external suppliers to facilitate the identification, sourcing, setup, and launch of products that fill portfolio gaps

Responsibilities

Responsible for creating RFP’s & aligning associated award recommendations in accordance with Cardinal Health’s sourcing process.

Supports a portfolio of projects assigned to fill portfolio and category gaps

Support improvements to Private Brand sourcing and new product introduction processes by contributing to the identification of handoff gaps, recurring barriers, and opportunities to simplify execution.

Facilitate and coordinate cross-functional project activities for the introduction and commercialization of new Private Brand medical products sourced from third-party manufacturers

Collaborate with Marketing to gather information for defining product needs, confirming business priorities, and supporting product selection decisions.

Partner with Logistics, Trade Compliance, Planning, Warehousing, and Distribution teams to confirm import requirements, lane setup, warehouse readiness, inventory planning, and distribution network execution.

These include products for hospital equipment, hygiene, skin management, respiratory, anesthesiology, textiles, resin based commodity items, and more

Collaborates with internal and external resources to champion cross-functional sourcing initiatives.

Drives cost reduction pipeline initiatives that facilitate business owners achieving their business unit goals and financial targets.

Perform data analysis and utilize financial acumen to identify opportunities to leverage scale and drive cost savings.

Global experience in category management, including technical product knowledge, cost drivers, related industry dynamics and market trends.

Develop creative solutions to resolve issues

Verify and monitor that deliverables meet applicable quality, regulatory, commercial, sourcing, and operational requirements.

Estimates Landed Cost using LCM tool and supports Should Cost analysis engagement

Manage the NDA processes for the team

Support as an SME In ordering samples within Cardinal

Manage critical contracts and ensure new elements are appropriately amended or documented

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree and at least 5 years of experience in developing targets, developing global strategic sourcing strategies, and delivering breakthrough levels of performance improvement across a portfolio of assigned categories for an FDA-regulated medical device manufacturer or a healthcare company with annual sales more than $5 billion, preferred

5 years of experience developing and implementing requirements/change management methodologies to execute strategic sourcing activities, preferred