Sourcing Specialist

Sotera Health Job Opportunity

The name Sotera Health was inspired by Soteria, the Greek goddess of safety, and reflects the Company's unwavering commitment to its mission, Safeguarding Global Health.

Sotera Health Company is a leading global provider of mission-critical sterilization and lab testing and advisory services for the healthcare industry. With a combined tenure across our businesses of nearly 200 years and our industry recognized scientific and technological expertise, we help to ensure the safety of millions of patients and healthcare practitioners around the world every year.

Across our 64 facilities worldwide, we have over 3,000 employees who are dedicated to safety and quality. We are a trusted partner to more than 5,800 customers in over 50 countries, including more than 40 of the top 50 medical device companies and 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies.

Primary Responsibilities

• Build strong knowledge within assigned categories and contribute to the development of category sourcing strategies.
• Manage and develop plans for assigned spend categories to achieve cost savings targets and supplier performance goals.
• Analyze historical spend to proactively identify sourcing opportunities that improve cost, working capital and payment terms.
• Identify and implement business process standards as well as optimize of existing business systems.
• Develop relationships with key suppliers to provide world class service across multiple sites and businesses.
• Develop and manage RFx activities in coordination with business partners to drive measurable savings results.
• Negotiation of contract terms and conditions in cooperation with business partners.
• Timely resolution of supplier related service issues.
• Ensure accuracy of supplier related data in business systems.

Experience Requirements (Skills, Knowledge and Abilities)

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Procurement, or Supply Chain
• 2+ years of experience in Sourcing/Supply Chain or Corporate Financial Planning
• Ability to establish and build strong relationships with suppliers and across the organization
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple key activities
• Basic negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Drive to challenge the status quo and collaboratively implement change
• Strong analytical skills (especially MS Excel formulas, pivot tables) and presentation development (especially in MS PowerPoint)

Education/License/Technical Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of experience in Sourcing/Supply Chain/Procurement or Corporate Financial Planning.

Sotera Health goes to market through its three best-in-class businesses Sterigenics, Nordion and Nelson Labs. Sterigenics is a leading global provider of outsourced terminal sterilization and irradiation services for the medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety and advanced applications markets. Nordion is the leading global provider of Co-60 and gamma irradiators, which are key components to the gamma sterilization process. Nelson Labs is a global leader in outsourced microbiological and analytical chemistry testing and advisory services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.