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Dartmouth Health · 1 day ago

Senior Manager - Clinical Strategic Sourcing

Lebanon, NH

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

Dartmouth Health is seeking a Senior Manager for Clinical Strategic Sourcing to develop and manage the sourcing process for clinical spend categories. This role involves optimizing clinical spend, conducting market analyses, and managing vendor relationships to ensure best value and compliance with regulatory standards.

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Responsibilities

Develops and manages end-to-end process of source-to-contract for clinical spend categories in a healthcare setting, optimizing clinical spend across the health system

Conducts market and landscape analyses, evaluates supplier capabilities, and manages vendor relationships from initial item evaluation through long-term strategic partnership modeling

Ensures best value for goods and services through strong negotiations, contracting oversight, and performance management in alignment with Joint Commission, Department of Health, CMS, and all applicable federal and state regulatory requirements

Advances organizational goals by implementing data-driven sourcing strategies, improving process performance, and achieving validated cost, quality, and service outcomes

Analyzes business needs and documents functional and technical requirements, integrating regulatory compliance, vendor performance, and strategic sourcing objectives

Develops communication strategies, assesses project feasibility, and ensures alignment with departmental goals

Prepares detailed status and KPI reports, maintains project deliverables with clear completion criteria, and monitors adherence to protocols

Plans, schedules and manages quarterly or bi-annual vendor performance review meetings including end user departments with high spend, strategic vendors by establishing a defined agenda and making sure all actions are thoroughly followed up

Builds and maintains collaborative relationships across the system, engaging stakeholders from clinical, operational, and support functions to ensure successful project execution

Supports business activities by developing and maintaining project models, solutions, and sourcing strategies, leveraging data analysis, market research, price benchmarking, and TCO evaluations to drive operational and strategic improvements

Manages performance improvement plans, establishes best practices, identifies critical path issues, and implements corrective actions to ensure continuous process optimization

Serves as an operational resource for internal teams, facilitating problem resolution, providing timely updates, and ensuring project milestones and deadlines are met

Supports quality assurance by maintaining business operations and project-specific documents (e.g., SOPs, work plans, training guides), ensuring compliance with regulatory standards

Provides structured status updates to stakeholders and management using agreed RACI frameworks for transparency and accountability

Coaches team members on effective vendor negotiation, contract management, and performance strategies to achieve optimal results

Ensures completion of Financial Impact Analyses (FIA) for all negotiations, implements strategic pricing approaches, and achieves at least minimum-to-get outcomes from vendors

Defines and monitors performance metrics for sourcing and contracting activities, reviews and reports savings results, manages performance improvements, and oversees project closure

Performs other duties as required or assigned, including proactive identification of cost-saving opportunities, process enhancements, and strategic sourcing initiatives

Qualification

Strategic sourcingVendor managementContract managementSupply chain managementData analysisMarket researchFinancial Impact AnalysisCoachingCommunication strategiesPerformance managementProblem resolutionStakeholder engagementRegulatory complianceBudgetingForecastingProject managementTeam leadership

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Healthcare Administration, Finance, or related field

Minimum of four (4) years of experience in strategic sourcing, vendor management, vendor selection, vendor performance management, and contract management, preferably in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, or healthcare provider environments

Knowledgeable in supply chain management, ERP and EMR systems, contract management software, services contracting, accounting principles, cost analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and market and supplier research

Proficient in MS Office Suite, ERP supply chain information systems, contract management software, and EDI/GHX platforms