With a mantra of Empowering Human Potential, Hanger, Inc. is the world's premier provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) services and products, offering the most advanced O&P solutions, clinically differentiated programs and unsurpassed customer service. Hanger's Patient Care segment is the largest owner and operator of O&P patient care clinics nationwide. Through its Products & Services segment, Hanger distributes branded and private label O&P devices, products and components, and provides rehabilitative solutions to the broader market. With 160 years of clinical excellence and innovation, Hanger's vision is to lead the orthotic and prosthetic markets by providing superior patient care, outcomes, services and value. Collectively, Hanger employees touch thousands of lives each day, helping people achieve new levels of mobility and freedom.

Every day our goal is to Empower Human Potential by enabling our clinicians and providing cost effective outcome-based care product options. Strategic Sourcing Managers (SSMs) routinely interact with C-level Hanger and supplier executives, negotiating and presenting innovative sourcing strategies and solutions that create sustainable, long-term return on investment. SSMs are highly effective communicators, who are comfortable selling the value of strategic sourcing to internal clients across lines of business.

Categories under management for this role include: (Indirect Materials and Services, Prosthetics, Orthotics, Shoes and Inserts, Bulk / Raw Components)

HYBRID ROLE: Office/Remote

Able to dive deep across multiple business lines who use similar categories and commodities to leverage our supplier base to optimize performance, quality, efficiency, and cost.
• Earn trust with internal business partners; establish enduring relationship, build a robust understanding of product category, strategic business direction, requirements and priorities across suppliers and/or spend categories.
• Develop sourcing strategies to deliver improved patient outcomes, manage risk and achieve business plans.
• Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmarking analysis; leveraging key-insights to inform and support the Strategic Sourcing strategy development process.
• Drive results by utilizing spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation.
• Work with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and controllership improvements, optimizing the return on investment and total cost of ownership.
• Serve as an advisor, facilitator, and educator to internal stakeholders on developing and executing sourcing strategies.
• Implement sourcing strategies to achieve key business goals: COM reduction, Lead-time reduction, supply continuity and product life cycle management.
• Responsible for total supplier performance: measure and manage vs. key targets, compliance to agreements and implementing improvement roadmaps to address gaps.
• Recommend Make-versus-Buy strategy on long-term basis for selected commodities.
• Maintain and provide current understanding on industry and technology trends for the assigned categories.
• Acting as interface between suppliers and business regarding tactical issues, pricing, quality while maintaining continuity of supply by taking ownership of tactical issues, facilitating work through others, and driving the team to closure

• 10+ years of relevant strategic sourcing experience, to include at minimum, 5 years in an indirect procurement function.
• 10+ years of experience practicing best-in-class procurement processes (strategic sourcing management, benchmarking, Make / Buy models, contracting, etc.).
• 7+ years of experience in developing category plans and sourcing one or more commodities.
• 5+ years of experience leading a team.
• A valid driver's license and driving record within the standards outlined within Hanger's Motor Vehicle Safety Policy and Procedures.

• Proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations.
• Expert understanding of, and deep experience with, multi-step strategic sourcing processes and category management strategies.
• Extensive knowledge of contracts, and purchase orders.
• Experience working in a patient care organization and works easily in multi-business unit project settings; able to facilitate teamwork across functional boundaries.
• Proven written and oral communicator, with strategic, analytical, and interpersonal skills to act as an effective change agent, unlocking barriers to create value.
• Embraces data driven decision making; naturally seeks to leverage and/or integrate market data, spend analytics, and cost modeling.
• Act with integrity in all ways and at all times, remaining honest, transparent, and respectful in all relationships.
• Keep the patient at the center of everything that you do, building lifelong trust.
• Foster open collaboration and constructive dialogue with everyone around you.
• Continuously innovate new solutions, influencing and responding to change.
• Focus on superior outcomes, and calibrate work processes for outstanding results.

• Competitive Compensation Packages
• 8 Paid National Holidays & 4 additional Floating Holidays
• PTO that includes Vacation and Sick time
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• 401k Savings and Retirement Plan
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave for New Parents
• Flexible Work Schedules and Part-time Opportunities
• Generous Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Mentorship Programs- Mentor and Mentee
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance by Location
• Relocation Assistance
• Regional & National traveling CPO/CO/CP opportunities
• Volunteering for Local and National events such as Hanger's BAKA Bootcamp and EmpowerFest

Hanger, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship. All conditions and privileges of employment are administered to all employees without discrimination or harassment because of race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, special disabled veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. The company will comply with all applicable state or local fair employment laws that forbid discrimination or harassment on the basis of other protected characteristics. Retaliation against any employee for filing or supporting a complaint of discrimination or harassment is prohibited.

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