Director Strategic Sourcing

📋 Description

• • Leads enterprise-wide strategic sourcing and contracting lifecycle for clinical and non-clinical categories including medical/surgical supplies, implants, capital equipment, and purchased services to optimize total cost of ownership.
• • Develops and executes comprehensive category management strategies through spend analysis, macro-market assessments, and long-term sourcing roadmaps.
• • Drives clinical standardization and product rationalization initiatives by collaborating with value analysis committees, physicians, nursing staff, and clinical leaders to align purchasing with quality outcomes and patient care objectives.
• • Achieves annual cost savings and cost avoidance targets by reducing price variation, optimizing contract pricing structures, and minimizing off-contract purchasing.
• • Directly supervises and develops a team of sourcing, contracting, and value analysis professionals, establishing performance expectations, operational workflows, and KPI accountability frameworks.
• • Builds and governs strategic supplier partnerships using data-driven scorecards to monitor cost, service delivery, compliance, and innovation performance.
• • Mitigates supply chain risk through diversified sourcing strategies, domestic alternative pathways, and proactive contingency planning to ensure continuity of supply.
• • Enforces rigorous contract compliance and establishes departmental governance processes to ensure adherence to sourcing standards, policies, and legal regulations.
• • Partners with clinical, operational, and financial leaders to drive value-based purchasing and supply chain transformation initiatives.
• • Utilizes advanced healthcare ERP systems (e.g., Workday, Lawson, Epic) and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) to analyze spend data and identify cost-containment opportunities.
• • Applies expert knowledge of healthcare supply chain dynamics, including Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) and progressive contracting mechanisms.
• • Demonstrates advanced financial and quantitative acumen by analyzing complex spend-per-case metrics and building predictive cost-containment models.
• • Exercises high-level negotiation and contract design skills to optimize cost, quality, and service outcomes with suppliers.
• • Influences senior leadership, physicians, and cross-functional clinical committees through superior communication and change management skills to build consensus and drive adoption of sourcing strategies.