Director – Strategic Sourcing

8+ years of either Procurement / Strategic Sourcing / Supply Chain experience required
8+ years of Direct / Critical Supplies / Pharma sourcing experience required
3+ years of people management required

Collaborate with corporate (Atlas) and field leaders to understand key business objectives
Driving Category management and Supplier Relationship Management discipline across all critical categories and suppliers.
Development of scorecards and forward-thinking improvements that advance DaVita’s ability to optimize our strategic sourcing capabilities and bring visibility to Indirect Procurement value across the organization and to our patients, and teammates
Develop new ways of working and collaborating, reducing cycle times and de-mystifying the procurement process
Socializing procurement value across the Enterprise and driving more spend under management – shifting towards Corporate-led Procurement
Develop and drive annual business plans and category playbooks for critical spend areas
Drive and grow partnership with 3rd party extended team to drive cost savings
Support, collaborate and influence all Business lanes engaged in procurement activities on the Indirect Procurement vision and approach to ensure that the business case for procurement is understood and sufficiently supported by the appropriate stakeholders
Represent the company externally to engage and identify diverse suppliers
Provide insight in defining future state procurement process, technology and tools related to strategic sourcing
Travel required up to 20%

Experience establishing and growing a Procurement organization preferred
Experience with Stakeholder Management and cross functional collaboration preferred
Master’s degree or similar certification in Supply chain/ Procurement preferred, not required