- Category Strategy and Planning
- Partner with the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) and business leaders to develop multiyear category strategies for business services aligned to enterprise priorities.
- Partner with business owners to forecast demand, define sourcing roadmaps, and align to budget cycles.
- Conduct market intelligence on business service providers, pricing models, and sourcing opportunities.
- Identify cost savings, operational efficiency, value improvement, and risk mitigation opportunities.
- Strategic Sourcing and Contracting
- Lead endtoend sourcing events (RFx), including requirements gathering, supplier evaluation, bid analysis, and award recommendations.
- Negotiate commercial terms, pricing structures, performancebased models, and service frameworks.
- Drive measurable savings through competitive sourcing, benchmarking, and renegotiation strategies.
- Drive contract lifecycle including renewals, extensions, amendments, and rebids to optimize total cost of ownership.
- Ensure contracts include compliant and enforceable SLAs, KPIs, audit rights, regulatory terms, and risk protections.
- Vendor Governance and Performance Oversight
- Provide vendor oversight for business service suppliers, owning commercial performance of vendors, including cost, value realization, and contract adherence.
- Partner with business owners and/or vendor managers to ensure alignment between financial outcomes and operational performance.
- Partner with Vendor Managers and Business Service owners to ensure governance, QBRs, continuous improvement, and issue resolution.
- Partner with Vendor Management, Risk, Legal, and Compliance to ensure oversight and risk controls.
- Financial and Value Management
- Analyze business service vendor spend, utilization, and cost drivers to identify optimization opportunities; deliver and track quantifiable cost savings, cost avoidance, and value creation across business service spend.
- Validate pricing, invoices, rate structures, and cost allocation accuracy.
- Develop business cases supporting vendor selection, cost savings, and transitioning services.
- Support budget planning with Finance and business owners.
- Stakeholder and Cross-Departmental Collaboration
- Serve as procurement strategic advisor to business units across HMSA.
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Finance, HR, Marketing, Facilities, and other corporate teams.
- Influence decisionmaking to ensure enterprisealigned vendor and sourcing strategies.
- Guide business areas and stakeholders on procurement governance, contract requirements, and vendor best practices.
- Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.
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