This job manages expense management, vendor relationships, contract management, standardization and consolidation processes and utilization analysis. Reviews, analyzes, negotiates, and develops contractual agreements; evaluates total costs; prepares and administers financial analyses necessary to arrive at total financial impact of vendor proposals; prepares, maintains, and monitors RFP’s to ensure compliance with company policy and procedure; communicates new products, item additions, and shifts in product demand to department leadership; drives cost reduction initiatives throughout the organization by serving as a project manager and consultant to the clinical and non-clinical areas; tracks the system savings and provides updates to leadership on the progress of the savings initiatives; drives organization-wide product change and serves as an internal advocate of product standardization/utilization initiatives; coordinates new product introduction and overall product change initiatives on behalf of end users; manages towards procuring the highest quality, clinically appropriate items at the lowest cost; serves as a liaison and advisor to department leadership; and works collaboratively to review and construct yearly expense budgets as well as monitor all expense variances on monthly reports.