Director of Purchasing

Memorialcare • Santa Ana, CA

278d • $147,721 - $203,101

About The Position

The Procurement Director directs all procurement and item master activities to support MemorialCare Health System (MHS) operations and assure system-wide best value is achieved and maintained. Promotes a business environment that maximizes the use of technology toward leading practices, greatest efficiency, productivity, and high quality databases. Provides leadership and direction for procurement of all capital equipment, supplies, and services while ensuring item master integrity and supporting KPI and reporting activities for MHS Acute & Non-Acute. Monitors procurement activities ensuring system policy and contract compliance, and system financial integrity. Continually assesses and drives a culture daily performance improvement, and break-through enterprise-level innovation for procurement, logistics and analysis functions. Responsible for training and staff development to ensure business process adherence and identification of leading practice. Acts as liaison with the Supply Organization to support a holistic approach for Procure to Pay Solutions. Consistently observes and fosters mandatory confidentiality relating to sensitive business or patient-related material/information. Serves as a member of the system Supply Chain Operations leadership team responsible to create and implement supply chain objectives in support of the MHS strategic plan. Collaborates MHS operational leaders to understand and effectively meet changing customer needs.

Requirements

• Ten years of relevant knowledge and experience with healthcare purchasing, materials, finance, MMIS and contracting.
• Experience managing one or more teams.
• Extensive experience and proficiency with ERP and/or MMIS.
• Expert level proficiency with spreadsheets, word processing and other office applications.
• Experience with Analytics and Business Intelligence.
• Demonstrated superior communication skills, including internal/external business-level correspondence.
• Demonstrated portfolio of experience with logical thinking, problem-solving skills and project management.

Nice To Haves

• Related and/or Lean certification.

Responsibilities

• Manage the daily operations of the Purchasing & Supply Chain Analyst team ensuring compliance with all MHS policies, procedures and contracts.
• Ensure the Buyer team performs with demonstrated skill capability and capacity to meet MHS procurement demand needs.
• Align work of Buyers & SC Analysts to overall Supply Chain Strategy.
• Exhibit advanced expertise with MMIS application procurement workflow, GPO and local contracting.
• Maintain strong controls related to data quality and integrity.
• Translate data into clear, concise and actionable objectives.
• Support Buyer & SC Analyst team member learning, coaching, recruitment and retention needs.
• Monitor key performance and behavior indicators to meet target outcomes.
• Monitor purchasing workflow integrity and facilitate effective root-cause analysis.
• Resolve cross-functional problems and issues in a timely manner.
• Perform buying functions for any/all department supply and service procurement needs.
• Create, monitor and support staffing and/or expense budget throughout the fiscal year.
• Evaluate and author Purchasing business process for effectiveness and accuracy.
• Manage supply disruptions to ensure available product.
• Design, monitor and ensure sourcing and procurement system integrity.

Benefits

• High quality health insurance plan options.
• Additional compensation opportunities including shift differentials, extra shift incentives, and bonus opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree