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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.
To be successful in your role, you will strategically lead system-wide spend management for a designated product category, driving clear strategies to optimize total cost of ownership through product sourcing, standardization, and utilization. You will demonstrate exceptional leadership in guiding a team of manager-level staff, overseeing significant annual expenditures, and influencing high-level Clinical and organizational leadership to achieve optimal financial and operational outcomes across the enterprise.

• 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 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 and coverage based upon service differentiation versus vendor preference
• 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 and provide support during conversions.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of Purchased Services vendors and service portfolio. Ensure a rigorous approach to evaluating new and existing services from a stakeholder, financial, operations, and strategic perspective.
• Attract, develop and retain talent, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and high performance.
• 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.
• Assists with reviews and recommendations associated with the Strategic Sourcing Center of Excellence (SSCOE).

The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

Required

• 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

Preferred

• Masters Degree Preferred

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.