Director Sourcing

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Mount Juliet, TN

57d

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. . REQUIRED SKILLS 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 Our professional administrative functions include critical supporting roles in information technology and informatics, finance, administration, legal and community affairs, human resources, communications and marketing, development, facilities, and many more. At our growing health system, we support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt Health for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose. Core Accountabilities: Organizational Impact: Implements strategies for a sub function with direct impact to the function results. Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Resolves highly complex business issues that are often unprecedented that have immediate impact on own sub-function or entity and wider implications to the organization. Breadth of Knowledge: Applies expertise within professional/technical area and uses advanced business knowledge to develop objectives. Team Interaction: Leads a sub-function serving the organization at large or across one or more entity(s). Core Capabilities : Supporting Colleagues: - Develops Self and Others: Acts upon constructive feedback from all levels of the organization and initiates strategies to develop talent in others. - Builds and Maintains Relationships: Leverages relationships and insight to forecast potential future needs and influence delivery of work to exceed expectations. - Communicates Effectively: Anticipates difference audience concerns, styles and finds mutually beneficial solutions across conflicting and sensitive issues. Delivering Excellent Services: - Serves Others with Compassion: Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of broad-based issues and considers the interests of others to improve satisfaction of services. - Solves Complex Problems: Critically evaluates complex information and identifies trends/risks to make recommendations to improve processes across areas. - Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Provides ongoing feedback and development discussions to motivate and support team members to maximize performance. Ensuring High Quality: - Performs Excellent Work: Anticipates problems or obstacles which may interfere with quality standards and develops plants to ensure area's quality standards are met. - Ensures Continuous Improvement: Routinely draws upon valuable learning from others, past experiences, and new information to determine key opportunities. - Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Develops appropriate corrective actions for unsafe environments in order to ensure operational and safety compliance. Managing Resources Effectively: - Demonstrates Accountability: Identifies potential obstacles to goal achievement and develops solutions to address those obstacles. - Stewards Organizational Resources: Creates the appropriate systems and processes to effectively manage resources. - Makes Data Driven Decisions: Applies in-depth knowledge of data to recommend and implement new approaches to improve decision making capabilities. Fostering Innovation: - Generates New Ideas: Identifies opportunities and leads development of new initiatives that create value across areas. - Applies Technology: Creates the energy and drive for self/others to identify and leverage technology in new, innovative ways to drive greater efficiencies. - Adapts to Change: Anticipates the change process and clearly communicates impact on others/own team(s), assisting them in embracing the change. Position Qualifications: Responsibilities: Certifications: Work Experience: Relevant Work Experience Experience Level: 5 years Education: Bachelor's Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled. PEOPLE ARE AT THE HEART OF ALL WE DO. Our vision: The world leader in advancing personalized health. Our mission: personalizing the patient experience through our caring spirit and distinctive capabilities. Making Health Care Personal. We’re looking for like-minded individuals driven to make a difference. We invite you to explore careers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At VUMC, we place a priority on designing with and for our patients and families. We value collaboration, embrace continuous learning and discovery, and seek to be a place where everyone has the chance to thrive. We’re the largest private employer in Middle Tennessee, with a growing team and expanding footprint in towns and communities across the region. We employ more than 28,000 people who work in inpatient and outpatient clinical care, research, and graduate medical education as well as critical supporting roles in administration, information technology and informatics, finance, legal and community affairs, communications and marketing, fund-raising, groundskeeping and facilities, and many more. Our growing health system has more than 1,700 licensed hospital beds at: Vanderbilt University Hospital Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital It’s also home to hundreds of outpatient clinic and surgical locations throughout the region. We serve our community with many unique and specialized services including the Level 1 Trauma Center, a highly experienced Transplant Center that does the most heart transplants in the world, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lung Institute, Burn Center and many more. World-leading academic departments and centers make scientific discoveries, advance clinical care and train the next generation of health care professionals. Our robust research enterprise consistently ranks among the highest in the country as measured by peer-reviewed grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. We’re honored to be consistently considered among the nation’s best hospitals, including being nationally ranked in multiple medical specialties for treating the most complex conditions in adults and children by US News and World Report. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt ranked as the No. 1 children’s hospital in the southeast in 2024. We support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at VUMC for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose. Join us in Making Health Care Personal.

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