Professional Services Procurement Manager

Are you a strong procurement sourcing professional with a background in marketing, communication, and HR professional services? Would you enjoy working on a fast-paced team that supports the mission of Florida Blue to help people and communities achieve better health. If so, read on and get ready to apply!

Job Purpose
The position of Procurement Sourcing Manager requires a talented, experienced, professional with excellent industry and business acumen, legal acuity, sourcing knowledge, project management and organization skills. These skills, combined with a suite of competencies designed to successfully navigate the enterprise and supplier community, are necessary to produce well-constructed, mid to higher complexity solutions and contracts containing sound financials, balanced risk and measurable supplier accountabilities. Candidate must be a self-starter who leads with minimal supervision in performing tasks and possesses the ability to comprehend legal, financial and business concepts. Candidate will ensure that contracts and payment terms are negotiated in accordance with established GuideWell contract administration policies and procedures, including all regulatory requirements. Prepares management reporting to summarize the status of contract negotiations and provides information to aid in management decision-making.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Using and analyzing data to support improvement opportunities
• Proactively identifying and taking action to improve the applicable procurement processes
• Lead business requirement gathering sessions
• Influence across all levels of management, including executive leadership
• Support in building and maintaining Category plans at subcategory levels
• Document and prepare comprehensive bidding packages
• Construct professionally written executive summaries which articulate, in summary fashion, the initiative supported by the acquisition, the strategy, negotiation highlights, inherent risks and benefits, and financial landscape of mid-complexity contracting efforts
• Handle multiple assignments and achieve goals and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Develop well thought out acquisition and negotiation strategies and execute with accuracy and agility
• Possess a good working knowledge and understanding of legal, risk and business implications of contract language
• With minimal supervision, accurately ascertain, manage the associated due diligence regarding, and contractually address the implications of FEP, CMS, State Group, HIPAA, HITECH, etc. requirements on any asset acquisition activity
• Manage continuous process improvement by:
• Maintain strict compliance with corporate policies and procedures relating to Business Ethics and Code of Conduct, in addition to the specific procurement regulations established by the Federal Government.
• Facilitate and lead onsite vendor presentations
• Identifying opportunities to increase internal business partners’ education and alignment and acting on ideas
• Represent Florida Blue as the single point of contact with potential suppliers during the RFP process
• Articulate, defend and present contracting strategies and approaches (of both parties) with business stakeholders and management as necessary to gain support and buy-in on negotiating strategies and efforts
• Interact and collaborate with internal stakeholders from Legal, Compliance, IT, Sales, Marketing, and other functional business areas, as applicable, to:
• Utilizes professional specialized expertise in technical, legal, business, procurement, and asset management disciplines for the acquisition of tangible and non-tangible assets
• With minimal supervision, determine the appropriate contracting approach to mid-complexity acquisition needs, as well as draft, present and negotiate all language within such contracts with stakeholders and vendors
• The essential functions listed represent the major duties of this role, additional duties may be assigned.
• Develop and facilitate the use of formal scoring matrices to support vendor selection

What You Must Have:
7+ years related work experience to include successful contract negotiation experience in mid- high complexity general professional services, marketing and communications, HR services acquisitions

Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience related field

Additional Required Qualifications
Requires strategic as well as tactical knowledge of the RFP/Process Improvement to promote a change in procedural compliance.
Experience and understandings principals of procurement and supply management
Proven ability to drive organizational change
Proven ability to influence across matrix and at all levels of management, including executive level
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Proven ability to support and lead cross functional teams
Excellent written and verbal communications skills with the ability to communicate effectively within an organization and diverse audiences
Solid contract drafting and terminology knowledge that includes understanding of subtleties of contract language, risk based language, contracting traps and pitfalls to avoid, document management and control, and legal acuity necessary to successfully negotiate mid-complexity contracts
For HR related Professional Services, General Marketing and Communications Services, possesses a good understanding of human sourcing methodologies

Computer skills with the ability to utilize software applications required to perform job duties
Detail and teamwork oriented with excellent organizational skills
Ability to multi-task and handle several assignments concurrently while still meeting deadlines
Ability to work independently, reviewing moderate to complex contract issues and recommending appropriate resolutions
Ability to comprehend complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors
Strong organizational and time management skills.

What We Would Prefer You Have:
Marketing and Communications industry specific acumen

HR industry specific acumen

General Physical Demands
Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.
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