Vice President-Supply Chain Strategy

Duke Careers•Durham, NC

About The Position

The VP, Supply Chain Strategy will lead Duke's enterprise value creation agenda across Duke Health and Duke University by directing strategic sourcing, clinical integration, and shared services to improve cost, utilization, contract performance, supplier value, and operational discipline. This executive converts supply chain strategy into measurable enterprise results across the health system and university while strengthening clinical, academic, and operational trust.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, finance, economics, or a related field.
Minimum of 15 years in healthcare supply chain experience demonstrating progressive increases in responsibility and scope, including at least five years' experience collaborating with physicians and executives.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree is preferred.

Responsibilities

Own a unified enterprise value creation strategy spanning Duke Health and Duke University.
Translate financial targets into a governed pipeline of sourcing, utilization, contracting, and shared-services initiatives.
Deliver sustained, auditable savings, expense reduction, and margin improvement against the multi-year plan.
Lead all strategic sourcing across clinical and non-clinical categories, including category strategy, negotiation, supplier governance, and activation.
Set portfolio strategy across direct contract, GPO, local sourcing, sole-source risk, and standardization pathways.
Build a disciplined operating model that improves contracting speed, adoption, compliance, and realized value.
Lead the Clinical Integration function with primary emphasis on utilization improvement, evidence-based product decisions, and physician engagement.
Use Lumere as the core platform to identify variation, benchmark opportunity, prioritize initiatives, and monitor realized clinical value.
Partner with physicians, nursing, service lines, and value analysis leaders to improve supply utilization without compromising quality, safety, or outcomes.
Lead the enterprise shared services portfolio, including purchased services, contracting, economic mobility, IT, and capital support functions.
Create coordinated strategies that improve total cost of ownership, contract discipline, supplier performance, and speed to value in non-labor spend.
Ensure economic mobility and community impact priorities are embedded where they align with Duke's mission and sourcing strategies.
Serve as a senior advisor to clinical, academic, finance, and operational leaders on where and how supply chain can create enterprise value.
Lead governance with transparency through dashboards, executive reviews, and initiative tracking that distinguish projected value from realized value.
Strengthen Supply Chain's position as a strategic enterprise operator, not simply a transactional service function.