AVP Control Tower and Inventory Strategy

Providence•Renton, WA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

This senior leadership opportunity invites your capabilities. The AVP of Control Tower and Inventory Strategy is a senior executive responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing an enterprise ‑ wide supply chain control tower for the healthcare ecosystem. This leader oversees real ‑ time visibility, predictive analytics, and orchestrated response across suppliers, distributors, providers, and internal supply chain teams. The AVP ensures resilience, reliability, and agility across the supply chain while driving cost, quality, and performance improvements. This role acts as the strategic integrator between data, technology, operations, and partner networks, ensuring situational awareness and coordinated action across the healthcare supply chain. In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position advocates cutting ‑ edge strategies for data analysis using historical purchasing trends to inform future forecasts and inventory needs; maintains progressive strategies to improve the creation and analysis of demand forecasts; performs return on investment (ROI) analysis for centrally owned inventory; and drives strategic improvements to identify, communicate, and resolve highly complex and high ‑ impact product shortages, including escalation management. The role further champions innovative strategies for identifying acceptable alternatives for shortage items in partnership with sourcing, suppliers, and clinicians; ensures effective communication to suppliers, vendors, and supply chain teams; champions state ‑ of ‑ the ‑ art spend ‑ savings strategies in partnership with Finance; maintains progressive strategies to improve inventory readiness and depletion for new products and conversions; guides development of innovative automated replenishment strategies across the majority of inventory categories; establishes statistical stock and par levels at the point of consumption; and champions innovative strategies for inventory data and analysis.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Administration, Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field
Ten (10) or more years of experience in supply chain operations, logistics, or healthcare supply chain leadership
Demonstrated experience designing or leading a supply chain Control Tower or similar real‑time operational center
Proven track record leveraging advanced analytics and digital technologies for operational improvement
Experience leading cross‑functional teams in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments
Strategic and systems thinking
Data‑driven decision‑making
Executive presence and communication skills
Crisis and risk management expertise
Strong relationship‑building and influence skills
Operational excellence and continuous improvement mindset
Change leadership and innovation capability

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree in Business, Administration, Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field
Experience within healthcare provider, distributor, manufacturer, or GPO settings
Familiarity with AI/ML, digital twins, advanced analytics, or ERP/SCM platforms

Responsibilities

Develop and execute the long‑term vision for a digital, analytics‑driven Control Tower that improves transparency, responsiveness, and decision‑making across the healthcare supply chain.
Define the operating model, governance, service lines, and performance metrics for the Control Tower.
Serve as an enterprise authority on supply chain risk, resilience, and end‑to‑end visibility strategies.
Lead real‑time monitoring of supply, demand, inventory, logistics, and disruptions across the supplier–provider ecosystem.
Oversee triage, escalation, and mitigation processes for shortages, delays, recalls, emergent events, and market volatility.
Ensure proactive alerts, scenario planning, and predictive risk modeling are integrated into decision workflows.
Ensure adequate inventory levels are maintained through innovative disruption‑resolution strategies, advanced transaction and ordering processes, progressive approaches to minimizing obsolescence and expiration, and long‑term maintenance of complex reorder levels to support product rotation and inventory accuracy.
Serve as an expert internal consultant and external spokesperson for enterprise inventory control initiatives.
Maintain and continuously improve supply chain operations.
Ensure purchasing strategies are consistent with overall sourcing strategies.
Partner with IT, data engineering, product, and analytics teams to design and enhance platforms supporting the Control Tower.
Champion advanced analytics, AI/ML, predictive modeling, and digital‑twin capabilities to anticipate supply chain risk.
Drive integration of internal and external data streams, ensuring data quality, interoperability, and real‑time availability.
Act as the primary liaison with manufacturers, distributors, providers, GPOs, logistics partners, internal business units, and executive leadership.
Facilitate cross‑functional alignment and response during disruptions or crisis events.
Establish KPIs, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to support visibility and accountability.
Drive continuous improvement through root‑cause analysis, process refinement, and best‑practice adoption.
Ensure compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements related to supply chain transparency and operational readiness.
Lead enterprise supply chain risk assessments, vulnerability analysis, and resiliency planning.
Develop disruption‑response playbooks to ensure continuity of supply for critical medical products.
Monitor geopolitical, economic, manufacturing, and logistics trends to anticipate external risks.
Build and lead a high‑performing Control Tower team with expertise in operations, analytics, supply chain, and incident management.
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Support key projects across Supply Chain, as needed.