System Director, Strategic Sourcing (Purchased Services)
About The Position
CommonSpirit Health is a large, nonprofit Catholic healthcare organization dedicated to building a healthier future for all. As a System Director, SSRM Strategic Sourcing, you will be responsible for driving system-wide spend management for a designated product category. Your role will involve setting and implementing strategies to optimize the total cost of ownership through sourcing, standardization, and utilization. You will lead a category team of manager-level staff with expertise in products and markets, overseeing significant annual dollar spend and interacting with high-level Clinical and organizational leadership. The goal is to achieve optimal financial and operational outcomes across the enterprise by inspiring and leading a high-performing team, ensuring alignment with organizational strategies, and delivering value improvement goals while preserving quality, safety, and patient/physician satisfaction.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree Required
- 10+ years of proven experience in leadership roles with oversight of strategic sourcing, vendor relations, and analysis
- 4-6 years proven experience facilitating collaboration between clinicians, supply chain, and other senior level stakeholders to drive strategic initiatives and value capture
- 10+ years Experience within sourcing or contracting in an organization of similar service complement of CommonSpirit Health or within a National Group Purchasing Organization, upon hire
Nice To Haves
- Masters Degree Preferred
Responsibilities
- Inspire and lead a high performing team, ensuring alignment with organizational strategies and delivery of Purchased Services value improvement goals while preserving quality, safety, and patient/physician satisfaction.
- Maintain sourcing calendar ensuring proper lead time and resource planning.
- Ensure contract categories are routinely evaluated and updated.
- Understand root cause of any spend variations and continuously identify opportunities to improve multiple sources of value (e.g., price, categorization, standardization, utilization, consolidation, operations).
- Develop and execute strategic plans that address national clinical, financial, and strategic goals while supporting local market challenges and being anticipatory of where there may be challenges between national and local strategies.
- Understand the nuances of each Region/Market for Vendor Preference and coverage based upon service differentiation versus vendor preference.
- Facilitate the interdisciplinary partnership between supply chain and users of purchased services ensuring fact-based sourcing decisions.
- Collaborate with Contracting, Data & Analytics, Purchasing, Technology, Operations and Implementation teams to ensure sourcing initiatives are successfully completed on time and provide support during conversions.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of Purchased Services vendors and service portfolio.
- Ensure a rigorous approach to evaluating new and existing services from a stakeholder, financial, operations, and strategic perspective.
- Attract, develop and retain talent, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and high performance.
- Write formal position papers that will be forwarded to members of the Executive Leadership Team, Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees, etc. for contract approvals.
- Monitor post contract award utilization to proactively alert operators of opportunities to improve compliance with contract commitments.
- Assist with reviews and recommendations associated with the Strategic Sourcing Center of Excellence (SSCOE).
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
