Sourcing and Procurement Manager

Own How LSO Buys, and Turn Every Dollar of Spend Into an Advantage

At Life Science Outsourcing (LSO), we help bring medical innovations to life, manufacturing, packaging, and sterilizing medical devices that reach patients and clinicians across the country. As our Sourcing and Procurement Manager, you will own strategic sourcing and purchasing across all combined spend at both of our sites, applying critical thinking and data to every purchase, negotiating the best pricing and terms available, and leading the buyers who carry it out.

You will thrive here if you love finding savings others miss, you are confident at the negotiating table with large and single-source suppliers, and you want a seat close to leadership, with a dotted line to our CEO. Your results will be visible and measurable: in your first 90 days you will build a single view of all LSO spend, by 120 days a prioritized savings plan with category targets, and within 9 months a preferred-supplier program and an updated purchasing policy and approval matrix.

What You’ll Do

You will lead sourcing, negotiation, and purchasing for both LSO sites, and you will be measured on realized savings, spend under contract, supplier consolidation, payment terms, inventory turns, and supplier performance.

Strategic Sourcing and Spend Visibility

• Build and maintain one consolidated view of direct, indirect, PO, and non-PO spend across both sites using ERP and accounts payable data.
• Analyze spend by category, supplier, and site, and attack every indirect category, including freight, MRO, IT and software, facilities, utilities, waste, temporary labor, insurance, and professional services.
• Run RFQs and RFPs, build should-cost and total cost of ownership comparisons, benchmark pricing against the market, and recommend awards with documented rationale.
• Consolidate suppliers, launch a preferred-supplier program, eliminate off-contract spend, and report realized savings and cost avoidance against annual targets.

Negotiation and Contracts

• Negotiate price, payment terms, lead times, MOQs, and volume commitments, including with large and single-source suppliers.
• Challenge supplier price increases and structure tiered pricing, rebates, multi-year agreements, and commodity-indexed pricing for materials such as resin, film, and foil.
• Negotiate extended payment terms and early-payment discounts that improve working capital.
• Draft and manage supply, pricing, and service agreements with leadership and legal counsel, and keep a contract calendar so renewals and increases never catch LSO by surprise.

Buyer Team Leadership and Purchasing Execution

• Supervise, train, and develop the buyers at both sites, setting priorities, assigning work, and conducting performance reviews.
• Own LSO's purchasing policy and approval matrix, set buying standards (quotes, blanket POs, approval thresholds, PO accuracy), and drive compliance across every department.
• Review requisitions, open POs, quantities, and pricing to stop waste before commitments are made, and ensure POs in the ERP are accurate.
• Partner with Planning and Production to align buys with MRP demand and schedules, and make sure critical materials are expedited and discrepancies with suppliers and Accounts Payable are resolved.

Purchase Patterns, Inventory, and Margin

• Set order quantities, reorder points, and safety stock, weighing price breaks and MOQs against carrying cost.
• Move repeat buys to blanket orders, scheduled releases, kanban, consignment, or vendor-managed inventory, and consolidate orders and shipments to cut freight cost.
• Partner with Planning to prevent excess and obsolete inventory and recover value through returns and restocking credits.
• Partner with Sales and Estimating so quoted material costs are accurate and supplier increases are passed through where agreements allow.

Supplier Management, Risk, and Compliance

• Qualify and recommend suppliers with Quality, monitor delivery, quality, responsiveness, and cost, and lead business reviews and improvement plans.
• Identify single-source and continuity risks and build alternate sources, leveraging combined CA and NH spend in every decision.
• Follow purchasing controls under FDA 21 CFR Part 820 and ISO 13485, including the Approved Supplier List, correct specifications and revisions on POs, and SCAR support.
• Keep audit-ready records under Good Documentation Practices, support internal, customer, and registrar audits, and uphold purchasing authority and conflict of interest standards.

Qualifications

What You Bring

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 6 to 8 years of progressive procurement, purchasing, or strategic sourcing experience in manufacturing, including 1 to 2 years leading buyers or purchasing staff (senior buyer or team lead experience considered).
• A documented record of negotiated, measurable savings, including with large or single-source suppliers, in a regulated industry such as medical device, pharmaceutical, or aerospace.
• Advanced Excel plus spend analytics or BI tools such as Power BI, experience cleaning ERP and AP data, and working knowledge of ERP and MRP purchasing, including order quantity, reorder point, and safety stock planning.
• Solid command of commercial contract terms, including pricing, payment, warranty, liability, and quality agreement provisions.
• Preferred: medical device contract manufacturing under ISO 13485, ASCM (APICS) CPIM or CSCP or ISM CPSM certification, Deacom ERP, and experience sourcing packaging, sterilization, or cleanroom materials and services.

Mindset and Impact

• You think critically, build the cost model, and let the data make the case.
• You hold firm in negotiations while building supplier relationships that last.
• You lead, coach, and hold a small team accountable for results.
• You communicate clearly and confidently, act with high integrity, and manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision.

Why Join LSO?

• Your work directly supports the manufacture and sterilization of medical devices that reach patients, clinicians, and care settings across the country.
• You will build hands-on leadership experience in an FDA-regulated, ISO 13485-certified manufacturing environment, a credential that opens doors across the life sciences industry.
• LSO is a growing, PE-backed contract manufacturing organization with operations on both coasts, and this role shapes purchasing at both.
• Your impact is visible: the savings and terms you negotiate show up directly in company results, and you report with a dotted line to the CEO.
• Stable, mission-driven organization with long-tenured leadership and a culture built around accountability and continuous improvement.

Work Environment

• On-site position at our Brea, California or Somersworth, New Hampshire facility.
• Work is performed primarily in an office environment with regular visits to the warehouse and production floor, including ISO-classified cleanroom areas that require gowning per LSO contamination-control protocols.
• Extended periods of sitting and computer work, occasional standing and walking, and the ability to lift up to 25 pounds.
• Safety glasses and other PPE are required in designated areas and are provided.
• Standard business hours, with occasional flexibility around month-end, audits, and critical supply issues.
• Travel to supplier sites and to the other LSO site of approximately 15 to 25 percent.

Make an Impact

Every purchase LSO makes ends up inside a device that a clinician trusts and a patient depends on. As our Sourcing and Procurement Manager, you will make sure we buy those materials smarter, at the right price, from the right partners, without ever compromising quality. If you are ready to own spend across two sites and see your results in the numbers, we want to hear from you.