Cardinal Health's IT Software Supplier Management needs to provide strategic support and management of upcoming software renewals, with accountability for the end-to-end software renewals lifecycle. This function collaborates closely with indirect procurement (IDP), solution owners, enterprise architecture, finance, and software vendor management to mitigate commercial and legal risks and minimize the impact of potential software renewal price increases.
Requirements
- Experience in program management, software sourcing, demand planning, and/or forecasting preferred
- Familiarity with procurement tools such as SAP Ariba, ServiceNow, Flexera, Conga, or related tools preferred
- Knowledge of common software licensing models and agreement structures for both SaaS and on-premise software
- Leverage historical data and Flexera license insights to inform demand planning and identify high-opportunity renewal spend
- Facilitate pre-renewal assessments, including supplier performance evaluations, license utilization analysis, and risk identification
- Validate alignment of renewal strategies with business and IT roadmaps, ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture standards
- Provide insights and recommendations for continuous improvement, leveraging tools such as SAP Ariba, Tableau, and ServiceNow
Responsibilities
- Proactively identifies and manages upcoming renewals
- Collaborates with third-party market research and benchmarking vendors to proactively forecast potential cost increases and commercial risks
- Collaborates with solution owners to evaluate historical vendor relationship and performance
- Documents renewal strategies that maximize value creation
- Provides direction and support to the other software supplier management team members as they facilitate software renewal activities
- Maintaining the software renewals playbook that defines associated governance frameworks and reports as well as renewals policies, procedures, and sourcing rules
- Leverage historical data and Flexera license insights to inform demand planning and identify high-opportunity renewal spend
Other
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Business Administration, Information Technology or related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
- 5-10 years of experience in supply chain management, vendor management, IT procurement, software sourcing, finance, IT operations, or a related function, preferred
- Experience managing vendor relationships and maintaining compliance with organizational policies and procedures
- Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects
- Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues
