Director, Strategic Sourcing

Company: Kaiser Permanente
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: May 29, 2025

Job Description:

Job Summary:
Leads the sourcing management process by influencing the development of the sourcing strategy definition across the organization. Supports the strategic procurement of products and services by directing others to perform data gathering and analysis. Coaches others to evaluate high-profile strategic options and participate in the creation of a sourcing strategy. Leads the implementation of the sourcing strategy across the organization through the selection, negotiation, and recommendation of awards for sourcing contracts. Supports the continuous improvement of sourcing processes by developing advanced strategies and solutions.
Essential Responsibilities:

• Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.
  
• Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues. Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.
  
• Supports the continuous improvement of sourcing processes by: developing advanced strategies for implementing continuous improvements to support value optimization of awarded contracts; developing solutions to maintain supplier compliance for strategic and long-term contract terms across the organization, including product/service quality, payment terms, and shipping requirements; and directing the fulfillment of complex and long-term stakeholder needs to foster stakeholder partnerships.
• Supports the strategic procurement of goods and services by: directing others to monitor the internal and external environment for trends and practices that can inform highly complex and long-term strategic opportunities; and developing strategies to perform complex market and sourcing analyses to optimize sourcing strategy, supplier selection, and procurement implementation, and engaging others on the team to implement.
• Contributes to the sourcing strategy definition by: developing and influencing the development of complex and long-term category profiles, savings plans, targets, and forecasts, across the organization; and leading complex and long-term sourcing, communication, and governance processes, across the organization.
• Contributes to the creation of the sourcing strategy by: developing and coaching strategies for the evaluation of options and products/services to develop a wide range of complex and long-term sourcing plans; influencing and fostering key stakeholder relationships to drive and socialize category sourcing strategies/plans; and integrating complex results of strategic analyses to develop sourcing strategies across the organization.
• Contributes to the implementation of sourcing strategy by: influencing the development of requests for proposals and complex bidding documents, across the organization, to generate options; coaching team members to perform high profile proposal analyses across the organization, and integrating results to inform supplier selection; negotiating and providing guidance across the organization to negotiate highly complex and long-term pricing and terms for large dollar contracts (e.g., delivery, quality, performance) with suppliers for products and services to ensure KP receives the best value for dollars spent; executing drafting of complex business terms leveraging expert understanding of industry relevant contract terms and conditions; reviewing and determining contract awards across the organization and influencing key stakeholders to approve recommendations; and guiding planning for the effective implementation of sourcing strategies, across the organization.Minimum Qualifications:
  
  • Minimum three (3) years of experience managing operational or project budgets.
  • Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
  • Minimum four (4) years of experience in healthcare experience or another heavily regulated industry (e.g., Banking).
  • Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Finance, Material Management, Economics, or related field AND Minimum ten (10) years of experience in purchasing, contracting, material management, finance or directly related field, OR Minimum thirteen (13) years of experience in purchasing, contracting, material management, finance or a directly related field.
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