System Director Strategic Sourcing General Medicine

At the heart of CommonSpirit Healths ministry are the national office departments that provide the foundational support resources and expertise that empower local communities to focus on what they do bestcaring for patients. Our teams bring together expertise in clinical excellence operations finance human resources legal supply chain technology and mission integration.

Guided by our faith-based values the national office fosters consistency alignment and innovation across CommonSpirit. By centralizing expertise and leveraging economies of scale we enable each location to operate efficiently while maintaining flexibility to address unique local community needs. From advancing digital solutions to driving health equity these departments extend the healing presence of humankindness everywhere we serve.

This is a remote position.

The Director Strategic Sourcing General Medicine is responsible for overseeing a National Perspective and Strategic Focus for approximately $620M annual spend covering approximately 630 Contracts/Product Categories. This leader will have a strong GPO background and is responsible for defining and implementing a clear strategy to optimize total cost of ownership including product sourcing product standardization and vendor standardization. This position Leads a category team of manager level staff with expertise and access to extensive knowledge of General Medicine products and market dynamics. This role interfaces with a variety of high level Clinical and CommonSpirit Health leadership as well as external resources from within the vendor community.

Key Responsibilities

• Inspire and lead a high performing team ensuring alignment with organizational strategies and delivery of General Medicine annual supply 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 understand root cause of any spend variations and continuously identify opportunities to improve multiple sources of value (e.g. price categorization standardization utilization 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. This includes understanding the nuances of each Region/Market for Vendor Preference based upon product differentiation versus vendor preference.
• Facilitate the interdisciplinary partnership between supply chain and physicians and other clinicians ensuring clinically driven 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
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of General Medicine suppliers and product portfolio. Ensure a rigorous approach to evaluating new products from a clinical financial operations and strategic perspective.
• Attract develop and retain talent fostering a culture of accountability collaboration and high performance.
• Gathers highly complex attributes of a service line landscape and synthesizes into fact based multi-year strategies that provide a clear roadmap to both clinicians and non-clinicians.
• Ability to 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.
• Monitors post contract award utilization to proactively alert operators of opportunities to improve compliance with contract commitments.

Did you know

Edgewise Healthcare Procurement or Edgewise is a subsidiary of CommonSpirit Health the largest Catholic health care system in the United States. Edgewise operates as efficiently as possible to minimize its costs while providing maximum value to its participants. As a group purchasing organization (GPO) Edgewise collects administrative fees from suppliers on its participants purchases. We understand the real-world impact of high value products on the bottom line because we have years of experience in successfully driving and delivering positive margins for organizations.

• Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance related clinical area or Business/Healthcare Administration is required; Masters Degree strongly preferred OR Bachelors degree in clinical area with a Masters Degree in Healthcare Administration or Business Administration
• 10 years experience within a National Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) or sourcing or contracting in an organization of similar service complement of CommonSpirit Health.
• 15 years of proven experience in leadership roles with oversight of strategic sourcing vendor relations and analysis.
• 5 years of proven experience facilitating collaboration between clinicians supply chain and other senior level stakeholders to drive strategic initiatives and value capture.
• Strong negotiation skills balancing business objectives and stakeholder interest to achieve optimal results
• Demonstrated track record of managing cross-functional teams and driving results in a fast-paced complex organization
• Demonstrated project leadership capabilities including excellent written and oral communication ability to manage to timeline and organization skills
• Excellent stakeholder management skills

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