Contract Management Sr. Consultant

OhioHealth•Columbus, OH

20h

About The Position

The Senior Consultant, Category Mgmt identifies cost and quality opportunities across a broad array of mid-level complex categories and provides support for Category Managers. Responsible for various clinical or indirect products and services across multiple business lines, while collaborating with internal customers and Category Managers to understand their requirements. Develops supplier agreements and provides strategic decision support and recommendations to stakeholders to maximize and ensure the value of contracts and supplier performance. The Senior Consultant, Category Specialist is responsible for owning and optimizing the assigned spend categories via extensive cross-functional collaboration and mastery of all total cost of ownership (TCO)/strategic sourcing best practices.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree (Required)
Related field such as business administration, finance, operations research, materials management, supply chain management, economics or related discipline
With Bachelor’s Degree, a minimum of 3 -6 years related Experience required of progressive RF(x), sourcing, negotiating and contracting Experience , including extensive Experiencedeveloping and executing strategic souring plans
With Master’s Degree, a minimum of 3 years ’ Experience related Experience acceptable.

Responsibilities

Support Category Managers strategies and opportunity assessments for specific categories
Recommend sourcing plans to Category Manager for assigned spend categories addressing cost drivers using contracting, competitive bidding, value analysis and financial analysis to meet cost savings targets
Handles category issues in absence of Category Manager
Aggregate and analyze usage across OhioHealth enterprise
Analyze service usage patterns in order to make recommendations for eliminating waste and/or reduction of usage for cost savings
Work jointly with suppliers and internal clients to improve integrated processes
Facilitates and coordinates activities with appropriate committee s
Facilitates cross-functional agreement to standardize services such that TCO is minimized but quality is maintained
Supports standards for diversity supplier program
Enhance supply chain performance by benchmarking and implementing best practices
Help evaluate competitive offerings to determine the overall best value for services
Provide status reports related to category/contracting activities to Category Managers
Build professional, effective, collaborative relationships with internal customers, supply chain colleagues, process partners and suppliers
Promote innovation and continual improvement in working practices
Accountable for the successful implementation and execution of assigned sourcing and supplier performance strategies and the subsequent delivery of value creation to the company for assigned categories.
Assist in the development and review of specifications, statements of work, performance terms and/or acceptance criteria
Lead cross-functional stakeholders through fact/evidence-based, data-driven sourcing initiatives with strong market and competitive analysis, creation of leverage, and professional negotiations to secure the best quality, service and cost to meet OhioHealth's needs
Advocate and enforce the OhioHealth policy on competitive bidding as well as the importance in establishing a competitive supplier environment
Collaborating cross-functionally to optimize service specifications
Influence internal clients to adhere to policies, best practices, and work towards OhioHealth's culture of spend optimization, standardization
Manages the data input for vendor and item accuracy, system builds
Complete and submit project trackers to quantify savings, status updates
Guide match exception resolution
Ensures contracts are up-to-date