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Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

Primary Location Oakland, California Schedule Full-time Shift Day Salary $166100 - $214940 / year
Job Number 1363321 Date posted 06/10/2025
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Job Summary:

Leads the sourcing management process by managing the sourcing strategy definition across teams. Supports the strategic procurement of products and services by overseeing others who perform data gathering and analysis. Evaluates high-profile strategic options and participates in the creation of a sourcing strategy. Manages the implementation of the sourcing strategy across teams through the selection, negotiation, and recommendation of awards for sourcing contracts. Supports the continuous improvement of sourcing processes by guiding the planning and implementation of solutions.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Creates and advocates for developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works with leaders and employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; hires, trains, and develops talent for growth opportunities; strategically evaluates talent for succession planning; sets performance management guidelines and expectations across teams / units. Oversees implementation, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams; motivates teams to meet business objectives. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making; fosters access to stakeholders.

  • Manages designated units or teams by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed; partners with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; assumes responsibility for decision making; fosters direct reports to resolve escalated issues as appropriate. Communicates goals and objectives; incorporates resources, costs, and forecasts into team and unit plans; ensures matrixed resources are fulfilling service or performance requirements across reporting lines. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams and units to operate in alignment with operational and business objectives.

  • Supports the continuous improvement of sourcing processes by: guiding the planning of objectives and strategies for implementing continuous improvements to support value optimization of awarded contracts; implementing solutions across teams to maintain supplier compliance for complex and long-term contract terms, including product/service quality, payment terms, and shipping requirements; and managing the fulfillment of complex and long-term stakeholder needs to foster stakeholder partnerships.
  • Supports the strategic procurement of goods and services by: overseeing others to monitor the internal and external environment for trends and practices that can inform a wide range of complex and long-term strategic opportunities; and overseeing complex market and sourcing analyses to optimize sourcing strategy, supplier selection, and procurement implementation, and guiding others in the organization to do the same.
  • Contributes to the sourcing strategy definition by: developing and overseeing the development of complex and long-term category profiles, savings plans, targets, and forecasts, across teams; and managing complex and long-term sourcing, communication, and governance processes, across teams.
  • Contributes to the creation of the sourcing strategy by: driving the evaluation of options and products/services and influencing the development of a wide range of complex and long-term sourcing plans; influencing key stakeholder relationships to drive and socialize category sourcing strategies/plans; and integrating complex results of strategic analyses to develop sourcing strategies across teams.
  • Contributes to the implementation of sourcing strategy by: managing the development of requests for proposals and complex bidding documents, across teams, to generate options; evaluating high profile proposal analyses across teams and integrating results to inform supplier selection; negotiating and providing guidance across teams to negotiate complex and long-term pricing and contract terms (e.g., delivery, quality, performance) with suppliers for products and services to ensure KP receives the best value for dollars spent; managing contract drafting processes across teams to ensure key business terms and relevant language are included; reviewing and determining contract awards across teams and influencing key stakeholders to approve recommendations; and influencing planning for the effective implementation of sourcing strategies, across teams.
Minimum Qualifications:

  • Minimum two (2) years of experience managing operational or project budgets.
  • Minimum five (5) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
  • Minimum three (3) years of experience in healthcare experience or another heavily regulated industry (e.g., Banking).
  • Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Finance, Material Management, Economics, or related field AND Minimum eight (8) years of experience in purchasing, contracting, material management, finance or directly related field, OR Minimum eleven (11) years of experience in purchasing, contracting, material management, finance or a directly related field.

Additional Requirements:

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Three (3) years of experience in project management.
  • Four (4) years of data analytics experience.
Primary Location: California,Oakland,1950 Franklin Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Shift: Day Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM Working Hours End: 05:00 PM Job Schedule: Full-time Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Remote Employee Status: Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-PO-01|NUE|Non Union Employee Job Level: Manager with Direct Reports Department: Po/Ho Corp - Care at Home Sourcing - 0308 Pay Range: $166100 - $214940 / year Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

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