CommonSpirit Health is a nonprofit organization that is on a mission to improve people’s health while making “the healing presence of God known.” The orga
System Director, Strategic Sourcing
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$80 - $132 / hour
Seniority
Lead
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
System Director, Strategic Sourcing
CommonSpirit Health
Role Description As our System Director, SSRM Strategic Sourcing, you will drive system-wide spend management for a designated product category and set and implement a strategy to optimize total cost of ownership, including sourcing, standardization, and utilization. Every day, you will lead a category team of manager-level staff with expertise and access to extensive knowledge of products and market. This role oversees a significant annual dollar spend and interfaces with a variety of high-level Clinical and organizational leadership. - Strategically lead system-wide spend management for a designated product category. - Drive clear strategies to optimize total cost of ownership through product sourcing, standardization, and utilization. - 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. - 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. - Maintain in-depth knowledge of Purchased Services vendors and service portfolio. - Attract, develop and retain talent, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and high performance. - Ability to write formal position papers 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). Qualifications - 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 Requirements - Mastors Degree Preferred
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