Manager, 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 Manager 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. This role will be responsible for their own portfolio, as well as 1-2 direct reports who will be responsible for additional work to support the Launch Team needs.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the top 5 to 6 highest-priority, highest-revenue, and most complex product opportunities within the Portfolio Gap Launch pipeline, driving execution from initial opportunity assessment through commercialization and launch.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for new Private Brand medical products, including supplier discovery, RFQs/RFPs, bid analysis, supplier selection, award recommendations, negotiations, and implementation.
• Lead complex cross-functional product launches by coordinating Marketing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Planning, Logistics, Trade Compliance, Warehousing, Distribution, Legal, Finance, and external suppliers.
• Evaluate sourcing and product opportunities using revenue potential, landed cost, should-cost analysis, margin impact, supply risk, supplier capabilities, and time to market to support data-driven business decisions.
• Develop integrated project plans, identify risks and barriers that could impact product launches, establish corrective actions, and drive stakeholder accountability to keep high-priority initiatives on schedule.
• Lead supplier engagement and commercial negotiations, including pricing, critical terms and conditions, NDAs, amendments, contract routing, and other requirements necessary to establish and maintain strategic supplier relationships.
• Serve as the primary sourcing leader for high-visibility opportunities, effectively influencing stakeholders across, upward, downward, and across peer relationships within a large, matrixed organization.
• Manage and develop 1 to 2 Strategic Sourcing Advisors, providing work prioritization, coaching, guidance, escalation support, and clear expectations for sourcing and project execution.
• Maintain visibility across the broader Portfolio Gap Launch pipeline and consolidate the work and outputs of the sourcing team into portfolio-level reporting for functional leaders, senior leadership, and executives.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level updates that clearly communicate portfolio progress, financial opportunity, sourcing status, launch readiness, key risks, decisions required, and recommended actions.
• Establish and continuously improve processes, governance, tools, templates, metrics, and best practices for the evolving Portfolio Gap Launch program, identifying recurring barriers and opportunities to accelerate execution.
• Ensure product and launch deliverables meet applicable quality, regulatory, commercial, sourcing, operational, logistics, and supply-chain requirements, while proactively resolving issues that could affect successful commercialization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, supply chain, or product commercialization, preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading the end-to-end strategic sourcing process, including supplier discovery, RFQs/RFPs, supplier selection, cost analysis, negotiations, and contract execution, preferred.
• Strong project management experience, with the ability to lead multiple complex, high-priority initiatives and drive them from strategy through implementation, preferred.
• Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams across functions such as Marketing, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and external suppliers, preferred.
• Strong financial and analytical skills, including experience with should-cost analysis, landed cost, business cases, and evaluating revenue or margin opportunities, preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with and present to senior leaders, including clearly articulating project status, risks, financial impact, recommendations, and decisions needed, preferred.

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