Sourcing Specialist

Pay Range
$96,800.00-$154,900.00
Company Overview
The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe. One of the world's most respected comprehensive centers devoted exclusively to cancer, we have been recognized as one of the top two cancer hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report for more than 30 years.
Vaccination for COVID-19 and Influenza (flu) is mandatory for all MSK staff. Staff are considered fully vaccinated upon completion of a primary vaccination series for COVID-19 (i.e., one dose of a single dose vaccine or a final dose of a multi-dose vaccine series). Exceptions from the COVID-19 and Influenza (flu) vaccine requirements are permitted for those who request and receive an approved medical, religious, or fully remote exemption. Requests for exemption can take up to two weeks to review. Vaccination or an approved exemption is required to start work.
Job Description
Do you want to drive innovative process improvements and cost reduction initiatives? Passionate about strategy and making a difference? Then, this might be the role for you.
The Strategic Sourcing team is seeking a Sourcing Specialist who will be responsible for handling the organization's end to end sourcing operations by implementing sourcing plans and tactics to effectively manage assigned commodities. Responsibilities include the ability to appraise and improve organization sourcing activities by analyzing the company's spending, supply partnerships and identifying new opportunities to improve cost savings.
You will:

• Assist the Sourcing Manager with developing sourcing strategies that align with MSK's goals/objectives, budget targets and operational requirements to minimize the organizational risk. Strategies should be developed using spend analysis data, partner input and knowledge of the supplier community.
• Perform data collection and conduct spend analysis at the organizational level, divisional level, commodity level and supplier level to find opportunities and cross-over of common items purchased.
• Conduct Market Research to identify new technologies, identify sourcing/supplier trends.
• Complete robust spend analytics to mine opportunities
• Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms.
• Assist the RFx process and provide the leadership role in sourcing events to be performed.
• Negotiate contracts that support the sourcing strategies, collaborating with key partners and departments.
• Negotiate and help develop contract terms and conditions that minimize risks to MSKCC and are consistent with the service level expectations of the internal client and the statement of work defined for the competitive bid process.
• Identify and vet preferred supplier capabilities, financial stability and standing in the market.
• Identify optimal method(s) of supplier selection when investigating new opportunities or product pricing.
• Manage cross organizational integrative activities with suppliers and the rest of the organization.
• Develop good working relationships with the end user community by establishing ongoing, consistent meetings to gather ongoing spend requirements that will enable the departments to manage business operations.
• Act as internal consultant, facilitator and problem solver.
• Understand the supplier business regarding existing product line, and research and development of future technology with potential impact to contract terms and pricing.
• Gather information on supplier performance in order to provide input into the strategic sourcing process for future sourcing events.

You need:

• 2-3 years related experience in Supply Chain
• Healthcare Experience preferred

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Pay Range
$96,800.00-$154,900.00
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