Supply Chain Lead Jobs in Fort Worth, TX

Location:

Medical Center - Fort Worth

Department:

Supply Chain Admin

Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Standard Weekly Hours:

40

Summary:

The Manager, Strategic Sourcing Supply Chain will lead and executes enterprise-wide strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier strategy across the organization. Responsible for developing and implementing multi-year category strategies, driving cost savings, supplier innovation, risk mitigation, and value creation, while ensuring alignment with clinical, operational, and financial objectives. Provides leadership over contracting, procurement, and value analysis functions, while advancing, analytics-driven decision-making and supplier performance management. Ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements and fosters strong internal and external relationships to deliver quality, safety, service, and cost outcomes.

Knowledge of the end-to-end contract lifecycle, including intake, drafting, negotiation, approval workflows, execution, repository management, compliance monitoring, amendments, renewals, and terminations. Ability to partner with Legal, Information Security, Privacy, Risk, and business stakeholders to manage contractual, financial, regulatory, and cybersecurity risks; optimize contract value; ensure governance and compliance; and leverage CLM technology, analytics, and workflow tools to improve visibility, efficiency, and supplier performance.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, Nursing, Respiratory Therapy, or related field required
• 5+ years in strategic sourcing or procurement or contract negotiation, preferably in a healthcare sitting.
• Experience with GPO strategy and optimization, supplier risk management, and resilience planning a plus.
Contract lifecycle management experience preferred.

Hours:

• Monday to Friday. 8:00am to 4:00pm
  

About Us:

Cook Children’s is an equal opportunity employer. As such, Cook Children’s offers equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected class in accordance with applicable federal laws. These opportunities include terms, conditions and privileges of employment, including but not limited to hiring, job placement, training, compensation, discipline, advancement and termination.

Cook Children’s is a Texas-only employer. If you are hired, you will need to maintain your primary residence within the state of Texas, along with all licenses and credentials required for your position throughout your employment.