12+ years strategic sourcing7+ years leadershipBachelor's degreeGraduate degreeEnterprise contract negotiationsHealthcare or Fortune 500 procurementTechnology category managementCloud / SaaS / AI sourcingSupplier relationship managementMarket intelligence and benchmarkingTotal cost of ownership analysisERP / cybersecurity / infrastructure sourcing
Job Description
Senior Director, Information Services Strategic Sourcing role at MUSC Health focused on transforming supply chain into a strategic business function. The position requires serving as a trusted executive advisor to the CIO, developing multi-year technology category strategies, monitoring emerging markets, leading complex negotiations, and optimizing enterprise value through responsible procurement and supplier partnerships across software, cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and infrastructure domains.
Overview
MUSC Health is transforming Supply Chain into an enterprise strategic business function. This role serves as a trusted executive advisor who helps business leaders shape strategy, evaluate markets, optimize commercial models, and build supplier partnerships that accelerate organizational priorities across Information Services. The Senior Director helps craft and execute technology strategies through responsible procurement, market surveillance, supplier innovation, and sophisticated commercial negotiations.
Strategic Business Partnership
•Serve as the principal commercial advisor to the Chief Information Officer and direct reports, translating enterprise technology priorities into executable sourcing, supplier, and commercial strategies.
•Participate in strategic planning, portfolio reviews, and investment discussions before procurement activities begin to influence technology roadmaps and acquisition strategies.
•Develop multi-year category strategies that balance innovation, cybersecurity, operational resiliency, and total cost of ownership.
Technology Strategy and Market Intelligence
•Continuously monitor software, cloud, AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure, digital health, and telecommunications markets for emerging capabilities and supplier innovation.
•Benchmark MUSC Health against leading academic medical centers and integrated delivery networks to identify modernization and optimization opportunities.
•Provide executive leaders with actionable market intelligence, supplier assessments, pricing trends, and commercial recommendations.
Commercial Strategy Development
•Develop sourcing strategies supporting ERP optimization, cloud transformation, cybersecurity modernization, AI enablement, enterprise infrastructure, and managed services.
•Lead negotiations that optimize enterprise value through commercial flexibility, implementation support, performance guarantees, and measurable value realization.
Supplier Ecosystem and Governance
•Develop a best-in-class enterprise technology supplier ecosystem that advances innovation and long-term strategic partnerships.
•Lead executive business reviews, innovation councils, supplier scorecards, and governance forums focused on continuous improvement.
Value Optimization
•Apply total cost of ownership methodologies, value engineering, and lifecycle cost analysis to technology investments.
•Challenge licensing models, implementation strategies, and service delivery approaches to improve financial and operational performance.
Executive Expectations
•Shape business strategy before sourcing events begin.
•Bring external market intelligence and benchmarking into executive decision making.
•Challenge conventional approaches through data, commercial insight, and supplier innovation.
•Develop long-term category strategies rather than execute transactional procurements.
•Build executive-level supplier relationships that create measurable enterprise value.
•Measure success through business outcomes, transformation, and value realization, not negotiated savings alone.