SrSpec,Purchasing

**_What Purchasing contributes to Cardinal Health_** Global Sourcing is responsible for creating and managing diverse strategic supplier partnerships that drive enterprise value with innovation, best cost and competitive advantages that benefit customers, suppliers and patients. Develops and executes strategic plans by leveraging market intelligence, industry knowledge and cross-functional collaboration. Competitive advantage is created through supplier selection and management, contract negotiation, supply chain optimization and risk mitigation. Purchasing is responsible for managing supplier relations at a tactical level, may negotiate product cost, and utilizing terms and conditions, working with internal customers to reduce product cost, improve the supply chain and evaluate supplier performance, and executing purchase orders and manages raw material inventory. **_Job Summary_** The Senior Specialist, Purchasing supports indirect purchasing for the organization. This job supports supplier master data, general procurement operations, and supporting internal Cardinal Health purchasing tools. This job is a support role for global purchasing. The job specifically supports the supplier data management. This job supports master product data for indirect suppliers by creating and maintaining supplier data, owning and participating in select tasks such as reporting and auditing, projects (such as acquisitions), training and documentation management, being a subject matter expert and consultant for higher level issues, and GMB management. **_Responsibilities_** * Communicates with suppliers regarding updates to master product data specifications and relevant information points. * Creates new supplier master data entries for new products and items. * Audits databases, testing data for consistency, and correcting data inconsistencies. * Documents policies and procedures for bid proposals and procurement of goods and services. * Resolves customer/internal questions regardin