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.
Responsibilities:
Maintain records for inventory accuracy trends, inventory reconciliations, fiscal year-end inventory audit.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.Primary Souring business partner support for key stakeholders within assigned indirect categories to determine sourcing needs and to provide indirect sourcing support.Manage Request for Proposal (RFP) events within assigned indirect categories to ensure competitive bidding and optimal supplier selection.Participates in negotiation related to contractual terms & conditions, financials, and various other activities directly with current and new vendors.Collaborates cross functionally with various internal groups to drive and achieve project goals and milestones to successful completion.Apply corporate-wide policy guidelines to projects and advise stakeholders on appropriate paths forward considering policy requirements.Maintains a working knowledge of existing contracts to navigate contract extensions and effective supplier relations.Drive purchasing discipline and compliance with internal stakeholdersResponsible of the annual budget management, conducts monthly reconciliation to ensure compliance
Qualifications:
What is expected of you and others at this level:
Applies basic concepts, principles and technical capabilities to perform routine tasksWorks on projects of limited scope and complexityFollows established procedures to resolve readily identifiable technical problemsWorks under direct supervision and receives detailed instructionsDevelops competence by performing structured work assignmentsCandidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.
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