athenahealth

Lead category sourcing strategies and competitive events, develop benchmarks and cost models, negotiate commercial agreements, and track measurable savings. | Requires 10+ years of progressive strategic sourcing and procurement experience, including technology or professional services categories, complex negotiations, formal sourcing methodologies, and advanced benchmarking and should-cost modeling. | Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Business Title: Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing Position Summary The Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing leads end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives across assigned categories, with a strong focus on technology (software, SaaS, IT services) and professional services. This role applies a disciplined 5–7 step strategic sourcing methodology to drive value from intake and requirements definition through supplier identification and award recommendation. The role emphasizes fact-based sourcing and negotiation practices, leveraging market benchmarking, proposal and bid analysis, and white-sheeting / should-cost modeling to inform negotiation strategy and commercial decision-making. The Senior Manager partners closely with business leaders, Finance, Legal, and IT to ensure sourcing decisions deliver measurable savings, and optimized commercial outcomes, aligned to enterprise standards. Essential Job Responsibilities Strategic Sourcing Execution • Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives using a structured 5–7 step sourcing methodology, including timely engagement assessment at intake to clearly define requirements (deal summary as an output), conduct market assessment and/or internal benchmarking, sourcing strategy development, competitive event execution, negotiation, and award recommendation. • Develop and execute category sourcing strategies aligned with business priorities for assigned category/ies, spend profiles, financial objectives, aligned to enterprise procurement standards practices and policies. • Translate business requirements into sourcing strategies that balance cost, risk, speed, and value. Market Analysis, Benchmarking & Cost Modeling • Conduct market analysis and/or internal benchmarking, and supplier landscape assessments to understand cost drivers, pricing models, market maturity, and leverage opportunities. • Perform benchmarking to assess pricing competitiveness, rate card and/or threshold standards, commercial terms, and total cost of ownership. • Develop and apply white-sheeting and should-cost models to: • Decompose supplier pricing and cost structures • Validate proposals and bids • Identify negotiation opportunities and cost reduction levers • Use benchmarks and cost models as key inputs to negotiation strategies and executive recommendations. Competitive Bidding & Proposal Analysis • Design and manage competitive sourcing events, including RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs. • Lead proposal and bid analysis, including pricing comparisons, scenario analysis, and evaluation of commercial trade‑offs. • Ensure sourcing decisions are data driven, defensible, and aligned to sourcing objectives and documentable (as evidence-of). Negotiation Strategy & Execution • Develop negotiation strategies and playbooks informed by market intelligence, benchmarks, should-cost analysis, and business priorities. • Lead and execute complex commercial and contractual negotiations in partnership with Legal and business stakeholders. • Drive consistent negotiation outcomes through structured preparation, leverage analysis, and scenario planning. Financial Alignment & Value Realization • Partner with Finance to support ROI analysis, TCO impact modeling, and business case development for new investments, renewals, and recurring spend at required spend thresholds. • Quantify and track sourcing value, including savings, cost avoidance, and commercial improvements. • Prepare executive ready sourcing recommendations and deal engagement summaries supported by financial rationale, benchmarks, cost models, and risk considerations. Standards & Continuous Improvement • Determine, with business stakeholders, when competitive sourcing is required, and manage approved exception scenarios using documented rationale and benchmarking. • Support audits and governance reviews by maintaining sourcing documentation, cost models, and negotiation artifacts. • Drive continuous improvement of sourcing methodologies, templates, analytical tools, and negotiation playbooks as a part of Sourcing Working Groups and/or other required initiatives. • Partner with procurement managers, associates, and analysts to drive sourcing rigor and best practices. Expected Education & Experience • Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Finance, Business, or a related field (preferred). • 10+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing and procurement, ideally within technology, and general professional services categories. • Demonstrated success leading high value sourcing initiatives, complex negotiations, and cost modeling exercises. • Strong financial, analytical, and commercial acumen. • Advanced knowledge of cost structures, pricing models, contracts, and category economics. • Experience with sourcing tools, procurement systems, and analytics platforms. • Deep expertise in strategic sourcing methodologies (5–7 step process) • Advanced capability in market benchmarking, white-sheeting, and should-cost modeling • Strong negotiation strategy development and execution skills • Excellence proficiency in proposal and bid analysis • Strong stakeholder management and leadership communication skills • Strong project management, analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills Expected Compensation $113,000 - $193,000 The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans. About Athenahealth Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Our company culture: Our talented  employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support. Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve. What We Can Do For You Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative  workspaces  — some offices even welcome dogs. We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation. In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued. Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity

Lead platform engineering strategy, modernization, and mentor engineers to improve software delivery. | 6+ years software engineering with leadership, proficiency in Java/Python, AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architecture. | Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Role Summary: The Lead Software Engineer, Tech Standardization leads modernization, observability integration, and internal platform capabilities that improve software delivery at scale. This hybrid role is based in Boston, MA and focuses on helping teams standardize engineering practices, strengthen developer experience, and support reliable platform services. The role works closely with engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, support technical decisions, and drive execution. This position reports to the Director. Team Summary: The Internal Developer Platform team supports engineering teams by providing platform capabilities that improve developer productivity, standardization, and adoption of supported engineering practices. The team leads modernization and migration efforts, supports observability integration, and helps create paved paths for building, deploying, and operating software more consistently. It works across engineering, product, and partner teams to deliver shared tooling, supported patterns, and reliable platform services that improve execution and consistency. The team plays an important role in helping engineering groups move faster while maintaining quality, security, and operational readiness. Essential Job Responsibilities: Guide and mentor a team of engineers, creating an environment that supports collaboration, growth, and strong engineering practices. Define and execute the strategy for internal developer platform capabilities that improve developer productivity, standardization, and adoption of supported engineering practices. Lead modernization, standardization, and migration efforts across platform services and engineering workflows. Lead observability integration work by delivering supported software development kits (SDKs), instrumentation patterns, and telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and distributed tracing. Improve the developer experience through paved paths, supported libraries, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, automation, and code-quality standards. Oversee multiple modernization programs to ensure alignment with business requirements, compliance standards, delivery commitments, and engineering best practices. Work with product managers, stakeholders, and partner teams to align goals and deliverables, communicate tradeoffs, and manage expectations. Serve as a visible U.S. time zone leader for technology standards, providing timely decisions, architectural guidance, and cross-team connections. Apply an artificial intelligence (AI)-first mindset by helping the team use AI-assisted tools to improve engineering quality, speed, and learning in day-to-day workflows. Drive engineering best practices including testing, continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, security, service ownership, and incident learning. Additional Job Responsibilities: Support hiring, onboarding, and team development efforts as needed. Contribute to design discussions, planning activities, and technical reviews. Help communicate progress, risks, and dependencies across workstreams. Participate in cross-team coordination to improve alignment and delivery. Support documentation, knowledge sharing, and standardization efforts. Help strengthen operational readiness and follow-up actions from incidents. Encourage responsible adoption of cloud, automation, and AI-enabled engineering practices. Represent the team in recurring forums focused on standards, migration, and modernization. Assist with roadmap refinement and prioritization discussions. Expected Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience. Experience leading engineers, technical projects, or engineering workstreams. Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, cloud enablement, or related modernization efforts. Strong hands-on programming experience in Java and/or Python. Strong working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, and large-scale platform migration patterns. Experience engineering observability Software Development Kits (SDKs), instrumentation patterns, and telemetry integrations using Datadog, OpenTelemetry, logs, metrics, and traces. Working knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation, security controls, and reliable software delivery practices. Experience working in regulated environments with expectations for availability, privacy, security, and compliance. Strong coaching, communication, and stakeholder-management skills. Experience using responsible AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve productivity and quality. Expected Compensation $143,000 - $243,000 The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans. About athenahealth Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support. Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve. What we can do for you: Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs. We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation. In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued. Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity