Overview
Tenet Healthcare is hiring a Strategic Sourcing Analyst to support end-to-end sourcing and category management for enterprise purchased services and other indirect procurement categories within a healthcare organization.
Role Summary
This role provides analytical support, project coordination, supplier contracting assistance, and reporting across competitive sourcing initiatives. The analyst will gather requirements, analyze spend and market data, support sourcing events, help develop business cases, track savings and supplier performance, and maintain procurement documentation.
Key Responsibilities
- Support sourcing projects from intake through supplier selection, contracting, implementation, and savings validation.
- Collect, cleanse, organize, and analyze spend, pricing, utilization, contract, supplier, and operational data.
- Assist with RFI, RFP, RFQ, and other competitive sourcing events.
- Prepare bid comparison models, supplier scorecards, pricing analyses, savings projections, presentations, and recommendation summaries.
- Coordinate meetings, timelines, action items, supplier communications, stakeholder inputs, and approvals.
- Support negotiation preparation by researching suppliers and markets and modeling scenarios.
- Assist with contract administration, including document collection, term summaries, and renewal tracking.
- Maintain sourcing records, category files, supplier documentation, and procurement systems.
- Track and report cost savings, project status, contract milestones, supplier performance, and procurement metrics.
- Support supplier relationship management, market research, benchmarking, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Requirements & Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, economics, supply chain management, finance, healthcare administration, or a related field.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organization, attention to detail, and follow-through.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines.
- Collaborative approach with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
- Willingness to learn sourcing, contracting, negotiation, and category management practices.
- Ability to handle confidential and commercially sensitive information appropriately.
- Ability to work in office Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, in Dallas, TX.
Preferred Qualifications
- Internship, co-op, project, or up to 2 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, supply chain, finance, consulting, analytics, healthcare operations, or a related field.
- Exposure to healthcare, hospital, or health system operations.
- Experience with data analysis, financial modeling, supplier research, competitive bidding, or project management.
- Familiarity with contracts, purchasing processes, supplier management, or indirect spend categories.
Benefits & Perks
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, AD&D, and life insurance
- Paid time off, including vacation and sick leave
- Discretionary 401(k) with up to 6% employer match
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Health savings accounts and healthcare/dependent flexible spending accounts
- Employee assistance program and employee discount program
- Voluntary benefits including pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long-term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance
- Paid leave available for Colorado employees in accordance with state law
Location
Dallas, Texas, US
Employment Type
Full-time
Experience Level
Entry Level
Remote work allowed
No
Posted
4 weeks ago