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Emory Healthcare · 3 days ago

Senior Supply Chain Contract, Manager

Atlanta, GA

Full-time, Contract

Onsite

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Emory Healthcare is the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia. The Senior Supply Chain Contract Manager will lead the contracting department, guiding Contract Managers and managing a portfolio of contracts while ensuring compliance and strategic negotiation.

Health CareMedical

Responsibilities

The Senior Contract Manager is part of the Supply Chain Contracting and Analytics Team

Senior Contract Manager will be the team lead of the contracting department and will provide guidance to Contract Managers

This position is responsible for the leading the development, coordination, negotiation, and management of a broad spectrum of Clinical and Non-Clinical Supply, Physician Preference Item (PPI), and Purchased Services contracts

To be an effective part of the team: must be a self-sufficient person who can interpret needs, think strategically, be able to effectively manage the contracting process from beginning to end, translate objectives, execute outcomes and present contract deliverables

Senior Contract Manager will act as a Team Leader and lead negotiations with the Contract Managers in Purchasing

The Senior Contract Manager works with the Director of the Contracting Team to identify, formally propose, evaluate, negotiate, and implement system contracting opportunities for Emory Healthcare

Senior Contract Manager manages portfolio of contracts for supplies, equipment and services in assigned area of responsibility such as commodities, PPI, clinical trials and purchased services

Senior Contract Manager evaluates and analyze responses to requests for information, requests for proposals, and competitive bids

The Senior Contract Manager will act as Lead on contract negotiations with Vendors

The Senior Contract Manager independently assess, analyze, and negotiate contracts for all hospital and professional entities within Emory Healthcare

The Senior Contract Manager creates and issues requests for information, requests for proposals, and competitive bids as needed

This will include development of specifications and scope of services as appropriate using input from customers and other sources for inclusion in the documents

This will also include ensuring that contract requirements, special provisions, terms and conditions to ensure compliance with appropriate laws, regulations, business unit and corporate policies and procedures are specified within the documents

Manages information for loading and maintaining contracts in EHC Supply Chain and Contract Management Systems

Senior Contract Manager maintains the contracts database by entering new agreements and renewals, and ensure that complete, fully executed contract documents are included with each contract record

Contracts will be maintained electronically and be available by secured access

The Senior Contract Manager will upload all contract related documents including but not limited to fully executed contracts, price files, spend impact analysis, etc documents into contract management system and spend analytic systems

Senior Contract Manager will support the Contract Managers in the Contracting Team to audit and review the database to ensure all contracting processes are being maintained

Reviews contracts for legal and business terms, facilitates through legal, and follows signature authority rules

Works directly with Compliance Office and Office of General Counsel (OGC) to ensure contract/agreement language and requirements are appropriate and complies with Emory University and Emory Healthcare policies and procedures, and federal and state laws, to resolve compliance issues and develops contract templates and checklists for the Contract Managers to use as part of their contract reviews

Ensures contract content supports adherence to healthcare regulatory agency requirements identified as applicable to a particular contract

The Senior Contract Manager supports Supply Chain goals to increase contract versus noncontract volume and to increase overall savings while maintaining quality

The Senior Contract Manager maintains a current working knowledge of GPO and Emory Healthcare negotiated contracts

Identifies opportunities for standardization and cost reduction via analyzing purchase history, industry benchmarks, contract compliance data and utilization information

Interviews users, physicians and peers to identify possible standardizations and cost reduction opportunities

Benchmarks practices and utilization against others to identify improvement opportunities

Collects Contracting Team savings and expense results in monthly dashboards to be presented to Contract Team Leadership and EHC Administration

The Senior Contract Manager investigates and follows-through on contract issues managing all portions of the contract workflow

The Senior Contract Manager acts as Lead in all contract pricing issues that cannot be resolved by Purchasing Staff and Contract Managers

Engages with vendor to resolve contract price discrepancies when in dispute

Manages relationships with vendors and/or outside consultants

Conducts periodic business reviews with major vendors

Identifies and implements strategic alliances when advantageous per direction of Supply Chain Management Team

Resolves vendor representative issues as needed

Qualification

Contract negotiationContract managementHealthcare procurementVendor managementContract analysisLeadershipStrategic thinkingCommunication skills

Required

A Bachelors degree in business administration, accounting, healthcare administration, supply chain, or a related field, with a strong understanding of contracts and agreements OR the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience

7 years combination of healthcare, contract analysis/negotiation/drafting, and/or indirect procurement/sourcing experience

A combination of education and experience that demonstrates the required skills and knowledge may be considered