Manager, Indirect Sourcing

Manager, Indirect Sourcing

Innovation starts from the heart. Edwards Lifesciences is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. With millions of patients served in over 100 countries, each team makes a meaningful contribution by improving patient outcomes and discovering lasting solutions for unmet patient needs. Our Manager, Indirect Sourcing position is a unique career opportunity that could be your next step towards an exciting future.

This role is an on-site or hybrid role based at Edwards' corporate headquarters in Irvine, California.

How You Will Make An Impact

The Manager, Indirect Sourcing provides expertise to stakeholders and manages indirect sourcing projects, advancing our vendor relationships and optimizing for value, effectiveness, and impact.

• Lead and manage key activities with technology and service suppliers, including discovery, initial contact, evaluations, negotiations, renewals, escalations, and innovations.
• Advise requestors from internal business units on technology selection, enterprise licensing, vendor engagement models, RFx processes, products/services, build vs. buy decisions, and requirements development.
• Review and enhance vendor-related documents, such as MSAs, SOWs, licensing and SaaS agreements, performance data, and presentations.
• Drive successful vendor outcomes by optimizing services, costs, terms, relationships, and innovation.
• Organize and lead vendor meetings, quarterly business reviews, presentations, and onsite/offsite visits.
• Resolve vendor issues related to requirements, performance, invoices, agreements, deliverables, and SLAs.
• Develop and implement procedures, templates, tools, and presentations to support the vendor management strategy and act as a vendor engagement SME.
• Oversee strategic vendor evaluations and performance reporting.
• Negotiate vendor agreements for services, SaaS, software, and more.
• Formulate and execute vendor corrective action plans, maintaining strong relationships.
• Oversee software license management to ensure compliance, optimize usage, and reduce costs through effective tracking, renewal, and auditing processes.
• Perform additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

What You Will Need (Required)

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field and 8 years of related experience

What Else We Look For (Preferred)

• Technical fluency or strong familiarity in multiple key areas of IT
• Experience negotiating software/SaaS agreementsMS, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow
• Vendor management experience with industry-leading firms
• Strong knowledge of contract terms and conditions and redlining skills
• Proven successful project management skills
• Proven expertise in both Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel and source-to-pay (e.g., Coupa) system
• Previous experience with AI/ML technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of full lifecycle of strategic indirect sourcing activities
• Excellent leadership skills and ability to influence change
• Strict attention to detail
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California (CA), the base pay range for this position is $102,000 to $145,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).

Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

COVID Vaccination Requirement

Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.