Contract Manager

BHS • Jeffersontown, KY

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About The Position

Baptist Health is looking for a Contract Manager to join their Supply Chain team in Louisville, KY! The Contract Manager is responsible for leading system wide contracting of supplies, equipment, material, services and maintenance. This includes extensive procurement, contracting, and purchasing functions, with the goal of driving significant savings or cost avoidance by pointing procurement towards our contracted options. The manager is responsible for providing high quality, efficient, and cost-effective service to the organization with an emphasis on customer service. Achieving standards of performance, portfolio management and collaboration with leadership and system departments. The position will also be focused on continuous process improvement, benchmarking, performance measurement, and reporting. Responsibilities include assisting in the identification and review of new and alternative product selections, sourcing products within the vendor community, monitoring vendor performance, and building business relationships. Also negotiates contracts, including GPO, IDN and hospital specific contracts within their service line. If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing. NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056. Job Applicant Privacy Policy Statement - Job Applicant Privacy Policy

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• 3+ years' experience related experience in contracting, supply chain, or healthcare administration

Nice To Haves

• Prefer a clinical background like nursing
• Advanced certification in supply chain or healthcare administration preferred
• Market knowledge of key medical/surgical supplies and services preferred
• Experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, negotiating, contracting, business law, cost containment, and expense management activities preferred
• Healthcare Contracting
• Healthcare Contract Manager
• Hospital Contracting
• Hospital Contract Manager
• Contract Administrator
• Supply Chain Manager
• Healthcare Supply Chain Manager
• Work Experience
• Education

Responsibilities

• leading system wide contracting of supplies, equipment, material, services and maintenance
• extensive procurement, contracting, and purchasing functions
• driving significant savings or cost avoidance by pointing procurement towards our contracted options
• providing high quality, efficient, and cost-effective service to the organization with an emphasis on customer service
• achieving standards of performance, portfolio management and collaboration with leadership and system departments
• focused on continuous process improvement, benchmarking, performance measurement, and reporting
• assisting in the identification and review of new and alternative product selections
• sourcing products within the vendor community
• monitoring vendor performance
• building business relationships
• negotiates contracts, including GPO, IDN and hospital specific contracts within their service line

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager