Director, Technology Strategic Sourcing – Category Management

🔥 13 hours ago

🔔 Pennsylvania, Texas – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $119.1k - $186.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🛒 Procurement

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Cencora

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

Cencora is a company dedicated to improving the health and well-being of both people and animals globally. Built on the legacy of AmerisourceBergen, Cencora offers a wide range of industry-leading solutions that encompass specialty logistics, warehousing, drug research, clinical development support, and more. They provide commercialization and patient access support and offer wholesale and specialty distribution services. Cencora serves a diverse clientele, including pharmaceutical companies, physician practices, pharmacies, and health systems. The company also extends its services to animal health, managing operations and delivering products for animal pharmaceutical care. With a strong global footprint, Cencora aims to reshape healthcare delivery through innovative products and solutions, striving to create healthier futures for all.

📋 Description

• Owns the roadmap, category plan, sourcing events, supplier negotiations, supplier performance, contract compliance, and third-party risk for an assigned technology category or sub-category • Acts as the sourcing business partner to assigned Technology leaders, maintaining forward visibility of demand, budgets, and renewals • Directs technology category strategies, sourcing plans, renewal calendars, and pipeline priorities • Leads supplier evaluations, negotiations, award recommendations, and contract execution • Manages supplier performance, contract compliance, issue resolution, risk assessments, and remediation • Manages category budgets, savings tracking, resource utilization, and delivery plans • Defines spend baselines, supplier landscapes, risk assessments, category profiles, and multi-year strategies • Aggregates and challenges requirements to reduce duplication, consolidate suppliers and licenses, and right-size specifications and consumption • Owns vendor relationships, business reviews, performance discussions, roadmap alignment, and escalations • Builds cost models, bid analyses, business cases, savings pipelines, and value reporting • Partners with Technology, Information Security, Legal, Finance, and business stakeholders • Supports sourcing needs arising from mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and integration activity • Applies procurement governance, delegation of authority, and code of conduct requirements • Drives process improvement, standardization, onboarding, cross-training, AI and automation adoption, supplier diversity, ESG, and responsible sourcing • Maintains accurate data in procurement, contract lifecycle management, and spend platforms • Leads and develops sourcing professionals, assigning work, coaching performance, and supporting talent decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience required • 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, and category management, including 4+ years in technology or data sourcing, or a related field required • 5+ years of experience in a management capacity required • Demonstrated track record negotiating and managing complex technology supplier contracts and portfolios of $50M+ in annual spend required • Experience owning a defined category or sub-category within a category-based procurement or category management operating model required • Experience acting as a procurement business partner to technology or business leaders, including building forward demand and renewal visibility, preferred • Experience in a large, matrixed global organization preferred • Certification in procurement, supply management, or project management (such as CPSM, CIPS, or PMP) preferred • Hands-on expertise in strategic sourcing and contract development for technology and data categories, including SaaS, cloud services, infrastructure, IT services, telecom, packaged software, cyber security, data solutions, and emerging technologies • Ability to build and maintain a category roadmap covering both near-term execution and multi-year strategy • Strong negotiation skills with a working command of commercial and legal terms in technology agreements • Skilled at business partnering, including running a demand and renewal cadence with stakeholders and influencing requirements early • Knowledge of vendor management, compliance, governance, and risk management frameworks, including third-party and cyber risk requirements • Knowledge of the technology supplier landscape, licensing and consumption models, and industry trends relevant to the assigned categories • Ability to translate business and technology requirements into category strategies, sourcing plans, and executable initiatives • Strong financial and analytical skills, including cost modeling, bid analysis, ROI evaluation, and data-driven recommendations • Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without authority across functions • Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives to deadline in a matrixed global environment, and comfort operating while an operating model is still maturing • Ability to establish spend baselines, category profiles, risk assessments, controls, performance measures, and KPI reporting • Proficiency in procurement tools (such as SAP Ariba or Coupa), contract lifecycle management systems, and data analytics platforms • Proficiency in English for business communication across global stakeholders and suppliers

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision care • Backup dependent care • Adoption assistance • Infertility coverage • Family building support • Behavioral health solutions • Paid parental leave • Paid caregiver leave • Training programs • Professional development resources • Mentorship programs • Employee resource groups • Volunteer activities • Inclusive culture and wellness resources