POSITION: Strategic Sourcing Manager
FULL-TIME/PART-TIME: Full Time
LOCATION: Hybrid (Dublin, Ohio)
React Health is a fast-paced, growth-driven manufacturer and distributor of medical equipment, dedicated to supporting patients, caregivers, physicians, and healthcare providers. With a focus on respiratory and sleep health sectors, we offer a comprehensive range of products and services across acute care, non-acute care, and home medical equipment. By integrating manufacturing and distribution, React Health addresses the needs of both undiagnosed individuals and those requiring therapy after diagnosis, particularly within the sleep and respiratory care sectors.
GENERAL SUMMARY
As Sourcing Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing service and product sourcing strategy. You will play a crucial role in operations improvement, cost savings as well as total process efficiency and productivity.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or another related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in a related field.
- Expert knowledge of Supply Chain best practices, policies, and regulations
- ASCM and/or ISM certification a plus.
- In-depth understanding of procurement process and compliance in an FDA regulated environment
- Strong negotiation skills and demonstrated ability to work with suppliers
- Good communication, including writing, speaking and active listening
- Strong financial and analytical skills
- Great project management skills, including organization, planning, time management and prioritization
- Self-motivated and able to set personal and professions goals, and able to achieve these goals with minimal supervision.
Preferred Education
Preferred Experience
- Medical Device / FDA regulations
- ERP systems
- Documentation Control System
- Microsoft Office Suites
- Contracts
- Excellent attention to detail and project management skills.
- Excellent written/oral communication skills required. Must be able to work effectively with diverse groups of people.
Physical Demands
- Requires normal visual acuity and hearing.
- Typically, employees sit comfortably to do their work, interspersed by brief periods of standing, walking, bending, carrying papers and books, and extensive periods requiring the use of computer terminals to accomplish work objectives. Required to sit and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel and manipulate keys on a keyboard.
- Additional skills may be required to perform additional task(s) specific to work location, department or line of business.
Working Conditions
- Predominantly operates in an office environment. Some work (less than 5%) requires moving and lifting of heavy networking equipment.
DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Each Employee consistently demonstrates the following essential functions:
- Lead sourcing function for company
- Optimize direct annual spend of $60M including indirect materials and services annual spend.
- Measures of success include: Bill of Material Savings, Days Payable Outstanding (DPO), Spend Under Management, On-Time Delivery
- Create category strategies in Electronics, plastics, hardware, and electro-mechanical
- Conduct periodic business reviews with suppliers to assess performance.
- Prepare RFPs, RFQs, bid documents, analyze, and evaluate proposals, and lead the quote evaluation process
- Develop and review contracts with suppliers
- Troubleshoot and resolve supplier related quality and delivery issues
- Work with engineering through new product development to develop a sourcing plan for all products.
- Adapt the procurement approach based on market trends.
- Periodic reviews with executive team on procurement strategy and measures of success.
- Prepare reporting for procurement or finance monthly
- Attends and participates in departmental meetings. Attends seminars and training sessions necessary to maintain appropriate level of professional competence.
- Ensures all department compliance guidelines are met.
- Attends all meetings, in-services training, or continuing education as delegated by the supervisor.
- Provides customer focused interactions.
- Performs all duties necessary for the department as per department policies and procedures.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as delegated by the supervisor within the scope of practice and the responsibilities in the department.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to accommodate individuals with disabilities to perform the basic functions of the position without compromising client care. React Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to providing a drug-free workplace. We are an Equal-Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.