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CommonSpirit Health · 1 day ago

Systems Director SSRM Strategic Sourcing - Purchased Services

Englewood, CO

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$80.17/hr - $119.26/hr

15+ years exp

CommonSpirit Health is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, focused on building a healthier future through integrated health services. The Director, Strategic Sourcing Purchased Services is responsible for overseeing a substantial annual spend in service categories, leading a team to optimize cost and enhance service quality while collaborating with various stakeholders.

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Responsibilities

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)

Qualification

Strategic sourcingVendor relationsNegotiation skillsStakeholder managementCross-functional team managementWritten communicationOral communicationOrganizational skills

Required

Bachelors degree required/ Masters degree preferred

15+ 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

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 organizations

Demonstrated project leadership capabilities including excellent written and oral communication, ability to manage to timeline, and organization skills

Excellent stakeholder management skills

Preferred

Masters degree preferred

Company

CommonSpirit Health

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Common Spirit Health is a healthcare organization that provides research programs, home health programs, and virtual care services. It is a sub-organization of CommonSpirit Health.

Founded in 2019

Chicago, Illinois, USA

10001+ employees