System Director Strategic Sourcing Ortho Spine
The posted compensation range of $75.64 - $109.67 /hour is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay CommonSpirit in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. CommonSpirit may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law.
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Responsibilities
This is a remote position.
Summary
The Director, Strategic Sourcing Ortho/Spine is responsible for overseeing a National Perspective and Strategic Focus for approximately $775M annual spend within approximately 106 Contracts and/or 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 Ortho/Spine 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 Ortho/Spine 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 support during conversions.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of Ortho/Spine 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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, related clinical area or Business/Healthcare Administration is required; Master's Degree strongly preferred OR Bachelor’s degree in clinical area with a Master’s 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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Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.
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