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H-1B visa jobs for Global Sourcing Manager roles are available at multinational manufacturers, retailers, and logistics companies that file Labor Condition Applications for supply chain positions. The role typically qualifies as a specialty occupation, requiring a bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, or a related field. Employers sponsor H-1B status for up to three years, extendable to six.
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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.
This position is responsible for coordinating and executing new product introduction and commercialization projects for medical products sourced from third-party medical device manufacturers and/or self/contract manufactured. The Manager collaborates with Marketing, Sourcing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Logistics, and external suppliers to facilitate the identification, sourcing, setup, and launch of products that fill portfolio gaps. This role will be responsible for their own portfolio, as well as 1-2 direct reports who will be responsible for additional work to support the Launch Team needs.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the top 5 to 6 highest-priority, highest-revenue, and most complex product opportunities within the Portfolio Gap Launch pipeline, driving execution from initial opportunity assessment through commercialization and launch.
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for new Private Brand medical products, including supplier discovery, RFQs/RFPs, bid analysis, supplier selection, award recommendations, negotiations, and implementation.
- Lead complex cross-functional product launches by coordinating Marketing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Planning, Logistics, Trade Compliance, Warehousing, Distribution, Legal, Finance, and external suppliers.
- Evaluate sourcing and product opportunities using revenue potential, landed cost, should-cost analysis, margin impact, supply risk, supplier capabilities, and time to market to support data-driven business decisions.
- Develop integrated project plans, identify risks and barriers that could impact product launches, establish corrective actions, and drive stakeholder accountability to keep high-priority initiatives on schedule.
- Lead supplier engagement and commercial negotiations, including pricing, critical terms and conditions, NDAs, amendments, contract routing, and other requirements necessary to establish and maintain strategic supplier relationships.
- Serve as the primary sourcing leader for high-visibility opportunities, effectively influencing stakeholders across, upward, downward, and across peer relationships within a large, matrixed organization.
- Manage and develop 1 to 2 Strategic Sourcing Advisors, providing work prioritization, coaching, guidance, escalation support, and clear expectations for sourcing and project execution.
- Maintain visibility across the broader Portfolio Gap Launch pipeline and consolidate the work and outputs of the sourcing team into portfolio-level reporting for functional leaders, senior leadership, and executives.
- Prepare and deliver executive-level updates that clearly communicate portfolio progress, financial opportunity, sourcing status, launch readiness, key risks, decisions required, and recommended actions.
- Establish and continuously improve processes, governance, tools, templates, metrics, and best practices for the evolving Portfolio Gap Launch program, identifying recurring barriers and opportunities to accelerate execution.
- Ensure product and launch deliverables meet applicable quality, regulatory, commercial, sourcing, operational, logistics, and supply-chain requirements, while proactively resolving issues that could affect successful commercialization.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent relevant work experience.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, supply chain, or product commercialization, preferred.
- Demonstrated experience leading the end-to-end strategic sourcing process, including supplier discovery, RFQs/RFPs, supplier selection, cost analysis, negotiations, and contract execution, preferred.
- Strong project management experience, with the ability to lead multiple complex, high-priority initiatives and drive them from strategy through implementation, preferred.
- Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams across functions such as Marketing, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and external suppliers, preferred.
- Strong financial and analytical skills, including experience with should-cost analysis, landed cost, business cases, and evaluating revenue or margin opportunities, preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with and present to senior leaders, including clearly articulating project status, risks, financial impact, recommendations, and decisions needed, preferred.
- People leadership experience, with demonstrated ability to coach, develop, prioritize work, and hold team members accountable, preferred.
- Experience identifying and resolving complex sourcing, supplier, or project issues and developing corrective actions to maintain business and launch timelines, preferred.
- Experience in medical devices, healthcare, FDA-regulated products, finished goods, private-brand products, or another regulated industry preferred, preferred.
What is expected of you and others at this level:
- Deliver on yearly tangible corporate goals
- Applies advanced knowledge and an understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects
- Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
- Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models
- Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope
- Projects may have significant and long-term impact
- Provides solutions that may set precedent
- Independently determines method for completion of new projects
- Received guidance on overall project objectives
- Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues
ANTICIPATED SALARY RANGE: $106,700 - $132,640
Bonus eligible: Yes
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 11/20/2026 *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.
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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 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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INTRODUCTION
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.
This position is responsible for coordinating and executing new product introduction and commercialization projects for medical products sourced from third-party medical device manufacturers and/or self/contract manufactured. The Manager collaborates with Marketing, Sourcing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Logistics, and external suppliers to facilitate the identification, sourcing, setup, and launch of products that fill portfolio gaps. This role will be responsible for their own portfolio, as well as 1-2 direct reports who will be responsible for additional work to support the Launch Team needs.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the top 5 to 6 highest-priority, highest-revenue, and most complex product opportunities within the Portfolio Gap Launch pipeline, driving execution from initial opportunity assessment through commercialization and launch.
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for new Private Brand medical products, including supplier discovery, RFQs/RFPs, bid analysis, supplier selection, award recommendations, negotiations, and implementation.
- Lead complex cross-functional product launches by coordinating Marketing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Planning, Logistics, Trade Compliance, Warehousing, Distribution, Legal, Finance, and external suppliers.
- Evaluate sourcing and product opportunities using revenue potential, landed cost, should-cost analysis, margin impact, supply risk, supplier capabilities, and time to market to support data-driven business decisions.
- Develop integrated project plans, identify risks and barriers that could impact product launches, establish corrective actions, and drive stakeholder accountability to keep high-priority initiatives on schedule.
- Lead supplier engagement and commercial negotiations, including pricing, critical terms and conditions, NDAs, amendments, contract routing, and other requirements necessary to establish and maintain strategic supplier relationships.
- Serve as the primary sourcing leader for high-visibility opportunities, effectively influencing stakeholders across, upward, downward, and across peer relationships within a large, matrixed organization.
- Manage and develop 1 to 2 Strategic Sourcing Advisors, providing work prioritization, coaching, guidance, escalation support, and clear expectations for sourcing and project execution.
- Maintain visibility across the broader Portfolio Gap Launch pipeline and consolidate the work and outputs of the sourcing team into portfolio-level reporting for functional leaders, senior leadership, and executives.
- Prepare and deliver executive-level updates that clearly communicate portfolio progress, financial opportunity, sourcing status, launch readiness, key risks, decisions required, and recommended actions.
- Establish and continuously improve processes, governance, tools, templates, metrics, and best practices for the evolving Portfolio Gap Launch program, identifying recurring barriers and opportunities to accelerate execution.
- Ensure product and launch deliverables meet applicable quality, regulatory, commercial, sourcing, operational, logistics, and supply-chain requirements, while proactively resolving issues that could affect successful commercialization.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent relevant work experience.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, supply chain, or product commercialization, preferred.
- Demonstrated experience leading the end-to-end strategic sourcing process, including supplier discovery, RFQs/RFPs, supplier selection, cost analysis, negotiations, and contract execution, preferred.
- Strong project management experience, with the ability to lead multiple complex, high-priority initiatives and drive them from strategy through implementation, preferred.
- Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams across functions such as Marketing, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and external suppliers, preferred.
- Strong financial and analytical skills, including experience with should-cost analysis, landed cost, business cases, and evaluating revenue or margin opportunities, preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with and present to senior leaders, including clearly articulating project status, risks, financial impact, recommendations, and decisions needed, preferred.
- People leadership experience, with demonstrated ability to coach, develop, prioritize work, and hold team members accountable, preferred.
- Experience identifying and resolving complex sourcing, supplier, or project issues and developing corrective actions to maintain business and launch timelines, preferred.
- Experience in medical devices, healthcare, FDA-regulated products, finished goods, private-brand products, or another regulated industry preferred, preferred.
What is expected of you and others at this level:
- Deliver on yearly tangible corporate goals
- Applies advanced knowledge and an understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects
- Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
- Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models
- Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope
- Projects may have significant and long-term impact
- Provides solutions that may set precedent
- Independently determines method for completion of new projects
- Received guidance on overall project objectives
- Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues
ANTICIPATED SALARY RANGE: $106,700 - $132,640
Bonus eligible: Yes
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 11/20/2026 *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.
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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 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.
To read and review this privacy notice click here
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Global Sourcing Manager
Align your degree to supply chain duties
USCIS evaluates whether your degree field directly relates to your job duties. A degree in supply chain management, international business, or industrial engineering strengthens your specialty occupation case far more than a general business degree paired with unrelated coursework.
Look up prevailing wages before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to find the certified wage level for your SOC code and work location before accepting an offer. Your employer's LCA must meet or exceed that figure, so knowing it in advance protects you during salary discussions.
Target companies with active LCA filing history
Find Global Sourcing Manager roles at employers with verified H-1B visa sponsorship history on Migrate Mate, which surfaces companies that have filed LCAs for supply chain positions, so you're not guessing which employers will actually go through the process.
Confirm each worksite has a certified LCA
If your role involves overseeing suppliers across multiple domestic locations, your employer must file a separate certified LCA for each worksite where you'll work. Raise this early with HR, especially if travel or rotation between sites is expected.
Use O*NET to document specialty occupation duties
Pull the O*NET occupation profile for Purchasing Managers or related SOC codes and cross-reference the listed tasks with your actual job description. This documentation helps your employer build a stronger specialty occupation argument in the I-129 petition.
Start the LCA process well before your start date
DOL must certify your LCA before USCIS can accept the I-129 petition. Build at least three to four weeks of LCA lead time into your offer timeline, and confirm your employer's HR team knows the sequential filing order to avoid delays.
H-1B Visa Global Sourcing Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Global Sourcing Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, the role typically qualifies. USCIS looks for a direct relationship between the job duties and a specific degree field. Global Sourcing Manager positions at mid-to-large employers routinely require a bachelor's degree in supply chain management, international business, or industrial engineering, which satisfies the specialty occupation standard. Your employer's job description should reflect degree-level analytical and strategic duties, not just operational coordination.
Which industries most commonly sponsor H-1B visas for Global Sourcing Manager roles?
Multinational manufacturers, consumer goods companies, electronics importers, and large-format retailers are the most active sponsors for this role. These employers manage complex, multi-country supplier networks that require degree-level procurement expertise. Aerospace and pharmaceutical companies also sponsor the title where supply chain compliance and technical sourcing are core duties. Browse verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate to narrow your search by industry and location.
How does the LCA process work for a Global Sourcing Manager position?
Your employer files a Labor Condition Application with DOL before submitting your I-129 petition to USCIS. The LCA certifies that your offered wage meets the prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location, and that hiring you won't adversely affect similarly employed U.S. workers. DOL typically certifies LCAs within seven business days. A separate LCA is required for each worksite, which matters if your role spans multiple domestic locations.
Can I switch employers while on H-1B status as a Global Sourcing Manager?
Yes, H-1B portability lets you start working for a new employer once they file an H-1B transfer petition on your behalf, without waiting for USCIS approval, as long as your current status is valid. Your new employer must file a fresh LCA for your new worksite and wage level. The H-1B transfer does not reset your six-year clock, so the remaining time carries over.
Does my H-1B cap count change if I move from a corporate headquarters to a regional office?
Moving worksites within the same employer generally doesn't affect your cap count or require a new H-1B petition, but your employer must file a new certified LCA for the new location if it's not already covered. If the move involves a material change in duties, wages, or employment terms, an amended I-129 petition may also be required. Confirm the specifics with your employer's immigration counsel before relocating.