Strategic Supplier Engagement Advisor, OptiFreight Logistics

Cardinal Health • Harrisburg, PA • 3d ago

What Strategic Partnership Management contributes to Cardinal Health

Global Sourcing is responsible for creating and managing diverse strategic supplier partnerships that drive enterprise value with innovation, best cost and competitive advantages that benefit customers, suppliers and patients. Develops and executes strategic plans by leveraging market intelligence, industry knowledge and cross-functional collaboration. Competitive advantage is created through supplier selection and management, contract negotiation, supply chain optimization and risk mitigation.

Strategic Partnership Management is responsible for managing Cardinal Health 's relationships with its strategic partners, which include Generic Pharmaceutical vendors such as Red Oak Sourcing. This enhanced relationship management translates into exceptional customer service, including maximizing the supply chain, negotiation of operational agreements and above the line revenue.

Job Summary

The Advisor of Strategic Partnership Management is responsible for planning, developing, communicating, implementation, and evaluating programs. These programs involve working with external entities and their corresponding resources and Cardinal Health's internal budget, schedule and scope constraints while managing risk and ensuring adherence to established processes and methodologies.

Responsibilities

Managing the vendor relationship for the subset of suppliers.

Driving volume on the program for the subset of suppliers.

Maintain the vendor profiles in Salesforce, maintaining all forms, vendor processes, and templates for our vendors.

Communicating changes in how we work with our vendors to the business.

Educate the business on the CIVS process. This may be in person or virtually.

Process improvement and creating stickiness with our vendors.

Prioritize the right projects to benefit our customers, and our company

Run various reporting to identify key opportunities to target for customers

Manage timelines and deadlines

Present purpose, actions and results to internal and external stakeholders

Root cause analysis

Qualifications

4-8 years of experience, preferred

Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred

Previous experience working with medical suppliers preferred.

Strong planning and organizational skills, and a person who can balance good listening skills with the assertiveness to accomplish deliverables.

Ability to work in a matrix environment with sales, marketing, operations, enterprise information technology, etc. to support both functional and business goals.

Data analytics experience with Excel proficiency preferred.

What is expected of you and others at this level

Applies comprehensive knowledge and thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects

May contribute to the development policies and procedures

Works on complex projects of large scope

Develops technical solutions to wide range of difficult problems. Solutions are innovative and consistent with organization objectives

Completes work independently receives general guidance on new projects

Work reviewed for purpose of meeting objectives

May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Anticipated salary range: $79,300 - $113,200

Bonus eligible: No

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off plan

Health savings account (HSA)

401k savings plan

Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay

Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

Short- and long-term disability coverage

Work-Life resources

Paid parental leave

Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 07/28/2025 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

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