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Summary:

In this role, you will lead complex, high-impact client engagements focused on onboarding, optimizing, and expanding non-healthcare indirect spend contracts to deliver measurable and sustained client value. You will serve as a strategic partner to clients, driving contract adoption, identifying enterprise-level optimization opportunities, and influencing sourcing strategies while owning engagement execution, financial outcomes, and long-term value realization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex, multi-category client engagements across the non-healthcare indirect spend and purchased services portfolio.

• Serve as a strategic advisor and primary escalation point for senior-level client stakeholders.

• Drive enterprise-wide contract adoption and spend optimization strategies aligned to client financial and operational objectives.

• Assess client spend landscapes and develop data-driven recommendations to maximize contracted value realization.

• Oversee engagement strategy, execution plans, milestones, risk mitigation, and performance outcomes.

• Influence sourcing strategies and partner with internal sourcing executives to address local, regional, or custom contracting needs.

• Monitor portfolio-level performance metrics and communicate value realization to clients and internal leadership.

• Lead executive-level client meetings, business reviews, and strategic planning sessions.
  Mentor and provide guidance to project managers or junior team members to elevate engagement delivery standards.

• Identify opportunities to expand client engagement scope and deepen strategic partnerships.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred.

• 5 or more years of relevant experience required.

• Experience leading complex sourcing, category management, or procurement initiatives within hospitality, gaming, business and industry, food buy or adjacent non-healthcare markets required.

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior client stakeholders and drive enterprise-level change.

• Strong financial and analytical acumen with experience translating spend data into strategic insights.

• Proven ability to manage multiple high-impact engagements with significant financial outcomes.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience leading executive-level discussions.

• Ability to work cross-functionally and influence without direct authority.

• Willingness to travel.

Estimated Hiring Range:

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $88,900.00 to $155,500.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer:   Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.