Supply Chain Procurement Manager

Overview

Placement Type:

Temporary

Salary:

$80.60-89.55 Hourly

up to $89.55/hr

Partner with Aquent to join a globally recognized leader, renowned for its innovative spirit and unwavering commitment to enhancing human well-being. This organization stands at the forefront of leveraging strategic sourcing and supply management to deliver unparalleled benefits and healthcare solutions, profoundly impacting millions worldwide.

Are you ready to redefine the landscape of global benefits and healthcare? We are seeking a strategic and experienced individual to join a dynamic team, where your expertise will be instrumental in shaping complex, multi-million-dollar engagements. This is a pivotal opportunity to act as a primary commercial advisor, bridging clinical strategy with financial and legal acumen, directly influencing the well-being of a vast global workforce. Your contributions will drive value-based care and lowest net-cost outcomes, ensuring the highest standards of compliance and performance for critical programs that touch lives across the globe.

Your Impact

• Lead end-to-end RFx processes for complex healthcare and benefits programs.
• Negotiate commercial terms, service level agreements, and pricing models that drive value-based care and lowest net-cost outcomes.
• Partner directly with legal and privacy teams to draft, review, and execute Master Agreements, Statements of Work, and data privacy addendums.
• Ensure all vendor contracts strictly adhere to the organization's risk, liability, and compliance postures.
• Serve as the primary procurement liaison between business teams, finance, product marketing, and legal.
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into actionable, legally sound procurement strategies.
• Build complex "should-cost" models to evaluate vendor proposals.
• Conduct deep-dive spend analyses across the benefits portfolio to identify cost-avoidance opportunities, eliminate redundant administrative fees, and execute hard savings initiatives.
• Drive ongoing performance management for key strategic partners.
• Monitor service level agreement compliance, conduct quarterly business reviews, and manage high-stakes escalations to ensure vendors deliver on clinical and operational commitments.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of strategic procurement, sourcing, or management consulting experience, with a heavy emphasis on the Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, or Corporate Benefits sectors.
• Deep understanding of healthcare economics, including fee-for-service vs. value-based care models, self-insured employer dynamics, and health tech data privacy regulations.
• Proven ability to redline and negotiate complex commercial contracts.
• Strong understanding of legal mechanics including indemnification, limitations of liability, and order of precedence (Statement of Work vs. Master Agreement).
• Advanced proficiency in financial modeling, spend analytics, and ROI calculations.
• Ability to translate complex datasets into executive-level presentations.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Ability to navigate high-ambiguity environments, push back constructively, and drive consensus across diverse, cross-functional teams.

Bonus Points For

• Experience negotiating with major healthcare carriers, pharmaceutical benefits managers, or digital health point-solutions.
• Familiarity with international benefits structures.
• Prior experience operating within a large, highly matrixed organization.

Benefits & Perks

This role offers W2 employment, weekly pay, comprehensive benefits, and 401k with match.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.