Associate VP, IT Procurement, Supplier Management

🕒 October 8

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $184.8k - $254.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🛒 Procurement

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Humana

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1961

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Insurance • Healthcare Insurance

Humana is a healthcare company dedicated to making a positive impact on the health of individuals, communities, and the healthcare system as a whole. With a focus on putting health first, Humana serves a diverse range of populations, including seniors and the military, providing Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS plans. Humana is committed to fostering a culture of belonging and mutual respect, offering competitive and flexible benefits to ensure the financial security of its employees and their families. The company prides itself on creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.

📋 Description

• Lead a 40+ associate organization responsible for Technology procurement and supplier management • Serve as the senior Procurement relationship leader and trusted commercial advisor to the Technology Leadership Team • Translate Technology strategy, architecture, investment priorities and roadmaps into category, supplier and commercial strategies • Connect Technology planning and funding decisions with sourcing pipelines, renewal calendars and value commitments • Advise leaders on make, buy, partner, renew, consolidate and exit alternatives • Deliver executive recommendations covering value, cost, risk, contractual exposure, optionality and tradeoffs • Improve intake, sourcing, due diligence, contracting, approvals and renewal processes • Establish service levels, ownership, escalation paths and performance measures • Own enterprise strategies for software and SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, hardware, telecommunications, technology labor, consulting and managed services • Drive value through license and consumption optimization, demand reduction, supplier rationalization, commercial-model redesign, contractual value recovery and supplier innovation • Lead complex, high-value and high-risk Technology negotiations • Lead Supplier Managers responsible for strategic and enterprise-critical Technology suppliers • Establish supplier governance, scorecards, performance expectations, issue-management disciplines and joint value plans • Address cybersecurity, resiliency, concentration, financial, operational, data and fourth-party risks • Lead and develop a 40+ associate organization of Category Managers, Supplier Managers and procurement professionals • Embed AI, analytics and digital tools into strategy, negotiation preparation, contract analysis, supplier monitoring and risk identification • Design an integrated IT Procurement operating model connecting Category Management, Supplier Management, sourcing, contracting, Procurement operations and Finance • Establish operating cadence for category strategy, pipeline, value delivery, cycle time, renewals, supplier performance, risk and talent • Measure success through validated financial value, improved cycle times, supplier performance, resilience, risk outcomes, decision quality and talent development

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, Supplier Management, Technology Finance or related commercial leadership roles • Significant leadership responsibility for complex Technology spend and supplier portfolios • 7+ years of people leadership experience, including building, transforming and retaining high-performing teams • Deep commercial expertise across several Technology domains, such as software and SaaS, cloud and infrastructure, technology labor, managed services, hardware, telecommunications or consulting • Demonstrated success leading large Technology portfolios and high-value strategic negotiations • Experience with portfolios approaching or exceeding $1 billion in annual spend is strongly preferred • Proven ability to advise CIO-level executives and influence decisions without relying on positional authority • Demonstrated ability to translate Technology and business strategies into category, supplier, demand and commercial strategies • Strong command of licensing, subscription, consumption, capacity, outcome-based and managed-service commercial models • Experience evaluating total cost of ownership, supplier economics, contractual structures, switching costs and value-realization assumptions • Demonstrated success in strategic supplier governance, performance improvement, risk mitigation and executive escalation • Track record of delivering substantial financial value while balancing speed, service, innovation, resilience and enterprise risk • Experience simplifying end-to-end processes, clarifying cross-functional accountability and leading meaningful operating-model change • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience • Self-provided internet service meeting minimum download speed of 25 Mbps and upload speed of 10 Mbps • Ability to work from a dedicated space without ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance • Medical, dental and vision benefits • 401(k) retirement savings plan • Paid time off • Company and personal holidays • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Short-term and long-term disability • Life insurance • Self-provided internet service for home or hybrid employees, with specified minimum speeds • Remote work arrangement with occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings