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Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading provider and advocate of high-quality, affordable sexual and reproductive health care for all people, as well as the nation’s largest provider of sex education. With more than 600 health centers across the country, Planned Parenthood organizations serve all patients with care and compassion, with respect, and without judgment, striving to create equitable access to health care. Through health centers, programs in schools and communities, and online resources, Planned Parenthood is a trusted source of reliable education and information that allows people to make informed health decisions. We do all this because we care passionately about helping people lead healthier lives.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that supports the independently incorporated Planned Parenthood affiliates operating health centers across the U.S. Planned Parenthood Action Fund is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit membership organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The Action Fund engages in educational, advocacy, and electoral activity, including grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy, and voter education. Planned Parenthood values the experience of employees, and our cultural ethos is “In This Together” which aims to support a workplace culture that centers on belonging, learning, and individual recognition.

We seek to hire a high-impact Director of Strategic Sourcing. This job reports to the Senior Director, Procurement on the Procurement team within the Finance division of PPFA, which partners across the organization to optimize total cost of ownership, mitigate risk, and generate mission-advancing savings.

The purpose of this role will be to transform PPFA’s Procurement posture from reactive purchasing to proactive value creation by designing and executing strategic sourcing strategies that deliver measurable annual savings. This will include the following actions:

• Lead market assessments, competitive RFx, negotiations, and award execution for high-spend categories, ensuring robust stakeholder alignment and contract readiness.

• Leverage rigorous, data-driven spend analysis to pinpoint the products and services that drive the greatest financial impact, then design and champion strategic sourcing plans that optimize total cost of ownership, mitigate risk, and deliver mission-advancing savings.

• Establish foundational supplier-relationship-management and category-management frameworks to sustain continuous improvement and innovation.

• Develop and mentor a high-performing Contracts team.

Engagement:

• Build Partnerships with Finance, IT, Office of the General Counsel, and other org unit leaders to understand upcoming needs for high-spend products or services and co-develop sourcing roadmaps.

• Proactively cultivate trusted, ongoing partnerships with business-unit leaders who manage high-spend portfolios, sharing actionable insights, co-prioritizing upcoming needs, and aligning on sourcing road-maps so that every major project benefits from strategic procurement support.

• Facilitate cross-functional sourcing committees and quarterly supplier business reviews, fostering transparency and shared accountability for results.

• Serve as the public face of Strategic Sourcing within PPFA, presenting outcomes and insights to executive leadership.

• Identify, prioritize, and deliver sourcing initiatives with realized and measurable savings that contribute towards Finance’s overall goals for the organization.

• Translate spend analytics into a sequenced pipeline of sourcing initiatives and lead cross-functional teams through market assessments, competitive events, negotiations, and award execution, ensuring each engagement meets or exceeds agreed savings, service, and compliance targets.

• Continuously refresh and monitor spend data to identify the next wave of high-value opportunities.

• Quantify cost avoidance and non-financial value-add (risk reduction, service enhancements) in partnership with business partners and FP&A.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree is required; MBA or relevant master’s is preferred.

• 7+ years of progressive sourcing/procurement experience, including ownership of strategic categories such as information technology, professional services, clinical supplies, or similar is preferred but not required.

• Managerial experience with a proven ability to lead, coach, and develop high-performing teams in fast-paced, complex environments is required.

• Demonstrated record of multimillion-dollar savings and complex contract negotiations.

• Strong analytical capability—advanced Excel, financial modeling, and spend-analytics platforms.

• Exceptional influence and change-leadership skills across executive, legal, and program audiences; CPSM, CSCP, or equivalent certification a plus.

Travel: 0-5% domestic travel for stakeholder workshops, conferences, and system-partner engagements

Planned Parenthood's cultural ethos, "In This Together", reflects our commitment to building a workplace culture that fosters belonging, promotes learning throughout the employee lifecycle, and recognizes individual contributions to our mission

Total offer package to include generous vacation + sick leave + paid holidays, individual/family provided medical, dental and vision benefits effective day 1, life insurance, short/long term disability, paid family leave and 401k. We also offer voluntary opt-in for Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Transportation/Commuter accounts.

We value a truly diverse workforce and a culture of inclusivity and belonging. Our goal is to attract qualified candidates and encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We're committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation.

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