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Sr Manager, Strategic Sourcing
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DaVita Kidney Care .
This position focuses on managing various direct spend categories, primarily related to our nearly 3,000 clinical facilities. These include machines, spare parts, and bloodlines. The ideal candidate must have excellent communication skills as they will be working with DaVita teammates and vendors across multiple functional areas that are not familiar with procurement. This requires a high level of strategic and analytical thinking, project management, and organizational skills. The team this manager will join is relatively new, offering an opportunity to build an organization from the ground up, but will require comfort with ambiguity and the ability to communicate frankly with C‑level executives.
Base pay range $97,000.00/yr - $153,000.00/yr
Posting date 12/18/2025
Location 2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States.
Responsibilities
Develop extensive market knowledge and a deep understanding of the assigned categories.
Lead all aspects of the sourcing process from end to end including RFIs/RFPs, bid analysis, supplier negotiation, and contracting.
Develop category strategies to increase our innovation pipeline, drive cost savings, and influence industries to transform themselves.
Manage strategic supplier relationships, including developing supplier performance (KPIs), capability development, cost and quality improvements for key suppliers and product categories.
Perform spend analysis and develop a sourcing roadmap focused on identifying cost savings, reducing supply risk, and identifying process improvements in a variety of direct spend categories.
Provide insights and recommendations based on analysis, research, industry trends, benchmarking, and best practices.
Identify and document supplier risk items and develop mitigation strategies and plans.
Monitor compliance with DaVita’s product formularies and ensure contract terms are being met.
Collaborate with internal business partners, both clinical and technical, to understand demand and supplier trends.
Balance multiple tasks and competing priorities simultaneously.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of business experience, or an MBA with background in contract analysis and negotiation.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; interaction with teammates across various departments and with supplier partners required.
Experience developing and implementing category strategies.
Ability to work independently while balancing multiple tasks and competing priorities.
Experience leading and executing RFPs and competitive bidding processes.
Strong strategic mindset and analytical skills – ability to work with large amounts of data to drive strategic decisions.
Excellent computer skills in Excel, PowerPoint & Word; ability to operate Tableau (building dashboards is not required but experience is valued).
Personal values aligned with DaVita’s values of Service Excellence, Integrity, Team, Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Fulfillment & Fun.
Ability to get the job done, push through obstacles, and take full accountability and ownership of work.
What You’ll Get
A “community first, company second” culture based on core values that really matter.
Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average.
Award‑winning education and training across multiple career paths to help you reach your potential.
Performance‑based rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions.
A comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your health, financial well‑being, and future.
Dedication to caring for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure across the nation.
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out.
Support for you and your family: family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access to Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more.
Professional development programs: on‑demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
For location‑specific minimum wage details, see DaVita.jobs/WageRates.
Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits.
Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age‑identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
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Sr Manager, Strategic Sourcing
role at
DaVita Kidney Care .
This position focuses on managing various direct spend categories, primarily related to our nearly 3,000 clinical facilities. These include machines, spare parts, and bloodlines. The ideal candidate must have excellent communication skills as they will be working with DaVita teammates and vendors across multiple functional areas that are not familiar with procurement. This requires a high level of strategic and analytical thinking, project management, and organizational skills. The team this manager will join is relatively new, offering an opportunity to build an organization from the ground up, but will require comfort with ambiguity and the ability to communicate frankly with C‑level executives.
Base pay range $97,000.00/yr - $153,000.00/yr
Posting date 12/18/2025
Location 2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States.
Responsibilities
Develop extensive market knowledge and a deep understanding of the assigned categories.
Lead all aspects of the sourcing process from end to end including RFIs/RFPs, bid analysis, supplier negotiation, and contracting.
Develop category strategies to increase our innovation pipeline, drive cost savings, and influence industries to transform themselves.
Manage strategic supplier relationships, including developing supplier performance (KPIs), capability development, cost and quality improvements for key suppliers and product categories.
Perform spend analysis and develop a sourcing roadmap focused on identifying cost savings, reducing supply risk, and identifying process improvements in a variety of direct spend categories.
Provide insights and recommendations based on analysis, research, industry trends, benchmarking, and best practices.
Identify and document supplier risk items and develop mitigation strategies and plans.
Monitor compliance with DaVita’s product formularies and ensure contract terms are being met.
Collaborate with internal business partners, both clinical and technical, to understand demand and supplier trends.
Balance multiple tasks and competing priorities simultaneously.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of business experience, or an MBA with background in contract analysis and negotiation.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; interaction with teammates across various departments and with supplier partners required.
Experience developing and implementing category strategies.
Ability to work independently while balancing multiple tasks and competing priorities.
Experience leading and executing RFPs and competitive bidding processes.
Strong strategic mindset and analytical skills – ability to work with large amounts of data to drive strategic decisions.
Excellent computer skills in Excel, PowerPoint & Word; ability to operate Tableau (building dashboards is not required but experience is valued).
Personal values aligned with DaVita’s values of Service Excellence, Integrity, Team, Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Fulfillment & Fun.
Ability to get the job done, push through obstacles, and take full accountability and ownership of work.
What You’ll Get
A “community first, company second” culture based on core values that really matter.
Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average.
Award‑winning education and training across multiple career paths to help you reach your potential.
Performance‑based rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions.
A comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your health, financial well‑being, and future.
Dedication to caring for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure across the nation.
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out.
Support for you and your family: family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access to Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more.
Professional development programs: on‑demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
For location‑specific minimum wage details, see DaVita.jobs/WageRates.
Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits.
Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age‑identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
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