Sr. Director, IT Enterprise Sourcing

Your Role

The Global Business Services team sources for all vendors and goods needed for Blue Shield of California and other entities under the Ascendiun holding company umbrella. This role oversees all IT procurement and sourcing for the health plan, and Ascendiun's subsidiary, Stellarus IT. The Senior Director will be a key member of the Procurement Management team, responsible for providing leadership, guidance, and structure for the company's procurement practices.

The Senior Director, Enterprise IT Sourcing will report to the VP, Global Business Services & Blue Partnerships department that is led by Pradip Khemani.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team in delivering and collaborating on all aspects of the execution of the enterprise sourcing process at Blue Shield of California and Stellarus, including supporting the business to make effective sourcing decisions and establish vendor contracts. The Senior Director, IT Enterprise Sourcing role will also provide the community of practice to deliver strategic sourcing, culture of affordability and supplier relationship management excellence at Blue Shield and Stellarus.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires at least 12 years of prior relevant experience in executing strategic initiatives with a track record of delivering results across a diverse portfolio of enterprise sourcing and supplier activities
• Requires a minimum of 8 years of management experience with direct reports
• Requires prior experience in negotiating multi-year service agreements with single contract values greater than $5M per year
• Requires proven ability to draft contractual provisions based on strategy discussions, stakeholder input, and organizational needs and expectations
• Requires ability to effectively manage and serve a wide range of internal business groups, including senior executives.
• Requires experience with IT sourcing on a global scale.
• Requires significant experience in contracting, negotiations and advising on commercial related issues
• Requires comfort with sourcing for different financial entities.
• Requires strong knowledge of a wide variety of contract types, including but not limited to pilot agreements, agreements with healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations, distribution agreements, quality agreements, outsourcing agreements, services agreements, and software / IT services agreements