Senior Sourcing and Contracting Manager

Presbyterian Healthcare Services • Remote Workers New Mexico, NM

4d • $87,526 - $149,032 • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Sourcing and Contracting Manager is responsible for strategic planning and category management for supplies and purchased services used by PHS enterprise-wide perioperative operations, with a focus on physician-preference supplies and physician effectiveness and satisfaction. The role identifies opportunities to improve clinical outcomes and reduce costs; forecasts utilization; addresses requests for new supplies and services; coordinates process changes; manages expiring contracts; and applies the VAT seven-step process to optimize initiatives and value for PHS Perioperative departments.

The manager chairs the Periop Value Analysis Team (VAT), leading strategic planning, critical discussions, and consensus-building with physicians, surgeons, clinicians, and operational leaders. The self-directed role executes initiatives through analytics, market and industry research, stakeholder engagement, RFI/RFP development and analysis, reference checks, recommendations, contract drafting and negotiation, and implementation planning. It also manages new product and service requests, trials, and clinical research, and coordinates review of requests with relevant executive and physician leaders.

The position has enterprise-wide visibility and supports senior executive leadership in cost savings, quality improvement, risk mitigation, physician satisfaction and retention, and policy enforcement. It manages supplier relationships and contract performance, rebates, product recalls and consignment, and supports capital equipment evaluation and procurement. The role also provides day-to-day management oversight for the Peri-Op Sourcing & Contracting Specialist position and supports compliance with applicable regulations, standards, and PHS policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; six additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of the degree.
• Five years of experience in healthcare supply chain information or industry-related supply chain information.
• Five years of experience in perioperative healthcare value analysis, negotiating, contracting, purchasing, legal contracting, or related fields.
• Ability to lead tactical and strategic negotiations.
• Perioperative product knowledge, including product use, disease states, construct pricing, and revenue and margin impacts.
• Ability to perform high-level financial analytics.
• Must be in good standing or complete certification in one or more of the following within one year of hire: CPSM, Lean/Six Sigma, Project Management, or another related supply chain or project management field.

Nice To Haves

• MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Chair the Periop VAT and coordinate strategic planning, prioritization, and implementation of initiatives with clinical, physician, and operational leaders.
• Lead discussions with surgeons and physicians about high-cost, physician-sensitive supplies and implants, including product use, market conditions, clinical context, and opportunities for savings or improved outcomes.
• Analyze financial effects of high-cost supplies on revenue and margins for specific DRGs, coordinating analyses and scenario modeling with PHS Population Health.
• Develop and document category strategies and decision-making processes for perioperative supplies and services, including selection criteria, market options, supplier negotiations, and physician consensus-building.
• Lead sourcing pursuits, including supplier negotiations, RFI/RFP processes, response analysis, reference checks, contract terms review, legal consultation, selection, stakeholder communications, contract execution, and implementation or conversion.
• Ensure contract information is entered accurately in MediTract and related changes are made in Lawson or Epic as needed.
• Manage supplier relationships and accountability for contractual obligations; address supplier performance issues and product failures; support Midas report investigations; and help ensure departments meet contract obligations.
• Support development and communication of SBARS and manage product recalls.
• Track contract rebates and conditions, assess competitive and overlapping supplier rebate programs, and recommend usage or purchasing changes to optimize rebates.
• Work with PMG and clinical operations leaders to orient physician and surgeon candidates to the VAT program, supply and service standards, formularies, and contract commitments, and provide financial impact assessments of candidate requests.
• Support evaluation, selection, negotiation, and procurement of capital equipment and ensure capital budgeting and procurement policies are followed.
• Establish baselines and gather procedures, protocols, satisfaction levels, statistics, stakeholders, comparable products, and supplier alternatives; conduct market research; prepare Initiative Approval Worksheets; and update the Supply Chain Opportunity Tracking Report for VASC progress reporting.
• Ensure compliance with federal and state healthcare regulations, TJC standards, and PHS policies and procedures.
• Optimize use of Lawson and available technologies to improve work, services, and outcomes.
• Support Supply Chain Formulary enforcement and lead responses to back-orders, stock-outs, substitutes, trials, conversions, and recalls.
• Support and direct product consignment processes and maintain related value and product details.
• Monitor industry trends and best practices and recommend operational improvements to the Director, Supply Chain Logistics and VP, Supply Chain.
• Perform management duties for the Peri-Op Sourcing & Contracting Specialist, including day-to-day oversight, evaluation creation and review, and disciplinary enforcement as needed.
• Attend the PHS Clinical Charter and Steering Committee for Surgical Robotics.
• Work with service line leaders to assess PHS Foundation purchases.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package for benefits-eligible employees, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, group term life insurance, and optional voluntary benefits.
• Employee Wellness rewards program with opportunities to earn gift cards by participating in wellness activities.

What This Job Offers

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