Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Government Employees Health Association, Inc. (G.E.H.A) is a nonprofit member association that provides health and dental benefits to federal employees and retirees. The Senior Strategic Procurement Analyst serves as the point of contact for issues with GEHA partners and is responsible for onboarding new partners, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring contract performance.
Responsibilities
- Onboard new external partners, ensuring they meet quality, cost, and compliance requirements
- Lead supplier selection process, negotiate contracts, and manage supplier relationships to ensure favorable terms and conditions
- Monitors daily workflow and provides guidance on processes and special handling items for major expenses to the business
- Manages the daily performance of the current and future external partnerships. Establishes work priorities for the current and future external partnerships and monitors and reviews the work of the partners
- Monitors productivity levels of the partners to ensure company goals are met
- Maintains current and future external partnerships performance criteria as outlined in the contract and tracks such criteria, against actual performance. Provides external partners performance summary monthly
- Evaluates the knowledge and skill levels of the current and future external partnerships staffing to ensure performance levels are meeting and exceeding standards needed to accomplish GEHA’s business requirements
- Prepares analysis to evaluate partner’s contract performance for use in approval of monthly invoices
- Manages grievances and partner relation issues as needed and involves the Director when issues become larger
- Provides proper training for the current and future external partnerships on new GEHA processes, and any additional training needed on existing processes
- Monitors current and future external partnerships recruitment to ensure current and future external partnerships has proper staffing for supporting and maintaining GEHA’s business requirements
- Works with manager to design metrics and processes to ensure partner relationships are consistently reviewed and managed
- Works with executives to determine and analyze new vendor relationships to determine the best partner by managing the RFP process end to end
- Build RFP process end to end that can be used for all contracts including how often contracts need to be renewed, can be signed for, etc
- Other miscellaneous projects, as assigned
Skills
- 6-9 years of experience with demonstrated knowledge and skill in strategic sourcing, procurement or supply chain management, leadership, teamwork, collaboration, problem solving and communication including experience in administering training on processes and procedures
- Bachelor's degree
- Proven track record of developing and implementing strategic sourcing strategies that drive costs savings and process improvements
- Strong negotiation skills and ability to effectively communicate with suppliers and internal stakeholders
- Proficiency in using sourcing tools and software applications
- Effective verbal and written communication skills necessary to perform supervisory/lead and training duties
- Business Analysis experience identifying business needs and determining solutions
- Project management skills and ability to adapt to plans and priorities to address business needs
- Knowledge of the GEHA Affirmative Action Policy and ability to make decisions regarding promotion and termination of employees that comply with its principles
- Ability to provide a non-cellular High Speed Internet Service such as Fiber, DSL, or cable Modems for a home office
- A minimum standard speed for optimal performance of 30x5 (30mpbs download x 5mpbs upload) is required
- Latency (ping) response time lower than 80 ms
- A dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information
Benefits
- Incentive plan
- Health/Vision/Dental benefits effective day one
- 401(k) retirement plan: company match – dollar for dollar up to 4% employee contribution (pretax or Roth options) plus a 6% annual company contribution
- Robust employee well-being program
- Paid Time Off
- Personal Community Enrichment Time
- Company-provided Basic Life and AD&D
- Company-provided Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Assistance Program
- Hybrid and work-from-home options for many of our roles
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