Director Sourcing

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Mount Juliet, TN

About The Position

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. Organization: SC Sourcing Job Summary: JOB SUMMARY Provides leadership in ensuring all approved products are purchased under cost effective contracts. Identifies and coordinates all opportunities for contracting new and existing equipment, supplies, and services. Evaluates products and suppliers. Maintains a collaboration between VUMC and our Supplier community Overall management and leadership to lead Sr and Principal Sourcing Officers on large initiatives. Ensure contracts are getting completed in a timely manner. Lead negotiations for master terms with suppliers. Ensure contracts are loaded properly and completely in the contract repository and the ERP systems. Leads and supports sourcing team in the value analysis process. Performs employee evaluations. Provides routine feedback for employees. Provide overall leadership for a unit or department by developing goals, objectives, policies and procedures; supervising, coordinating, and evaluating the activities; preparing operating and capital expenditure budgets; and performing personnel administration functions. .

Requirements

5+ years contract negotiation
5+ years people management
Value analysis experience
Budget management experience
CLM experience preferred
Healthcare experience preferred

Responsibilities

Develop goals and objectives for the department based on interpretation of institutional policy and goals
Plan to achieve goals or establish priorities
Help department understand, share and support the vision
Initiate changes in or develop new policies, procedures and/or methods.
Analyze long-range impact of decisions and plans
Ensure the most effective operations of the department through program development, process improvement and coordination/integration of processes with other departments.
Design, implement, evaluate and market programs to maximize clinical outcomes, functional status, patient/customer satisfaction and reimbursement
Standardize services, processes, resources, and practice to improve efficiency
Supervision to include responsibility for planning, coordinating, and controlling the work and procedures; provide advice/consultation to staff regarding problems
Adjust work schedules or project priorities to meet emergencies or changing conditions
Participate on departmental and/or interdepartmental committees to address problems and facilitate information exchange about programs, problems, etc. Provide information to others (oral or written) to explain/clarify problems, issues or requests
Participate in periodic management meetings to keep top management informed of department problems and concerns
Analyze and evaluate ongoing department programs to identify areas where adjustments/improvements are needed
Develop staffing plans to ensure developmental objectives are being met
Define and achieve financial targets in support of business goals of the institution
Prepare an annual operating budget for a unit or department, including direct labor, material and supplies, services, equipment maintenance and replacement
Present and justify a proposed budget (operating and capital expenditure) to a management review committee
Evaluate organizational functions and structures to best determine the allocation and utilization of resources
Analyze and evaluate budget variance to determine cause,
Prepare justification or develop alternatives for cost containment/reduction
Project future budgets based upon analysis of current operations.
Create and exceed service standards utilizing key service dimension and from knowledge of patient/customer expectations and best practice
Establish service standards for the department and determine if service standards are compatible with financial targets
Ensure that the service standards are met or exceeded by utilizing customer satisfaction, best practices and market information to improve customer service and satisfaction