System Director Strategy Sourcing General Medical Nursing

Overview:

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 137 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings. CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system.

This is a remote position.

The Sytem Director Strategy Sourcing team leader drives system-wide spend management for our General Medical/Nursing product category and sets and implements a clear strategy to optimize total cost of ownership, including product sourcing, product standardization, and utilization. Leads the General Medical/Nursing category team of manager level staff with expertise and access to extensive knowledge of products and market. This role oversees annual dollar spend of approximately $650M - $850M and interfaces with a variety of high level Clinical and CommonSpirit Health leadership.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities
1. Acts as a change leader - sets inspiring vision, role models change
2. Represents category and supply chain in interactions with operations, finance and clinicians
3. Collaborates with Contracting, Data Analytics, Purchasing, Technology, Operations and Implementation teams to ensure key stakeholders aligned with category strategy and support during conversions
4. Provides supervision, management and business direction to category team
5. Maintains in-depth knowledge of category product portfolio. Remains current on products in the market
6. Maintains sourcing calendar for category to ensure proper lead time and resource planning. Ensure associated contract categories are routinely evaluated, understand root causes of spend variations and continuously identify opportunities to improve multiple sources of value (price, standardization, utilization, operations)
7. Ensures rigorous approach to managing new products within category (e.g., works with clinical and financial stakeholders to prioritize new products to bring to appropriate committee, supports Value Analysis in delivery of new product process)
8. Identifies opportunities to standardize products across organization and makes fact-based recommendations in determining whether product should be standardized and/or used at CommonSpirit Health facilities
9. Evaluates primary and secondary sources of supply to understand competitive landscape and identify opportunities for better pricing
10. Documents quality issues and convenes peer review committee to review safety concerns and determine if product use should be discontinued

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Business/Healthcare Administration is required; Master's Degree strongly preferred.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of contracting, supply chain, or clinical experience with evidence of progressive, increasing responsibility, with a minimum of 5 years of leadership level experience and demonstrated success mentoring and developing key subordinates.
• Experience maintaining a category of healthcare products or services, analyzing industry trends and conditions, and implementing sourcing strategies, in the General Medical/Nursing category highly desired
• Strong business acumen and analytical mindset
• Proven ability to engage in details and drive the big picture
• Demonstrated project leadership capabilities including excellent written and oral communication, ability to manage to timeline, and organization skills
• Strong ability to form effective working relationship with a variety of stakeholders (administrative, clinical, finance, vendors)
• Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity
• Experience with and literate in supply chain computer applications, Microsoft Office or Google applications and user knowledge of each to achieve Supply Chain goals

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