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Job Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

40

Job Summary:

Director will be responsible for providing potential cost reduction initiatives across a variety of spend and operational categories to ensure financial savings are achieved on a yearly basis both St. Elizabeth Healthcare and St. Elizabeth Physicians. Director will foster collaboration between clinical staff and administration leaders and will facilitate and maintain systemwide Value Analysis committees across major spend/usage categories within both St. Elizabeth Healthcare and St. Elizabeth Physicians.

Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Job Description:

• Identify opportunities to create key strategic vendor partnership for the organization to drive quality outcomes and value for the system.
• Foster collaboration between Supply Chain Management and Service Line leaders to develop supply chain strategies for each service line.
• This will be accomplished by sourcing and management the portfolio of contracts within the various services lines which will be include multiple strategic contracts or relationships within both our national and regional Group Purchasing Organizations.
• Seeks and develops opportunities utilizing clinical/non-clinical product knowledge, experience and contracting intelligence to implement cost savings initiatives and reduce costs while improving patient care.
• Oversee and coordinate the activities of multi-disciplinary workgroups and Value Analysis Teams to assure key deliverables and savings goals are complete within set deadlines. 
• Assure physician groups and key stakeholders have an opportunity to provide input or participate in work effort as desired.  Assure adequate and appropriate support during pilot and roll out of new processes. 
• Lead or facilitate daily huddles during project pilot period to evaluate effectiveness of process changes and needs for modification. 
• Directly assists in the education of physicians, clinical and clerical staff regarding the future state processes.
• Identifies opportunities to create key strategic vendor partnerships for the organization to drive quality outcomes and value for the system. 
• Works collaboratively with Service Line leaders to develop supply chain strategies for each service line.
• Create contracting strategies designed to obtain competitive pricing commensurate with the systems size in the marketplace by utilizing industry benchmarks to continually evaluate contract competitiveness. 
• Establishes strategic priorities including those that fully utilize our group purchasing organization (GPO) and Kentucky Health Collaborate (KHC) contracts.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with executive leadership, service line executives, SEH and SEP administrative teams, directors, unit managers, frontline and medical staff to ensure savings goal and key performance metrics are met.
• Participate in development of multi-model communication plan to ensure organization is aware of contract conversions and process improvement initiatives and status of work in progress. 
• Maintain ongoing communication with both organizations administration team to ensure consistent updates are being presented for the entire system.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of performance improvement activities such as meeting statistics and reports, agendas, minutes and key performance indicators to system leaders.
• Collaborate as needed with clinical leaders on product trials and product recalls, and   partnering with site directors on Product Recall Process.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education, Credentials, Licenses:

• Masters degree in business/hospital administration, finance, information technology or nursing is required.

Specialized Knowledge: 

• Advance GPO contracting management and strategic sourcing experience are required.
• Advance statistical analysis and contract negotiation skills are required.
• Advance communication and presentation skills for clinical/non-clinical team members and physicians.
• Advance knowledge and experience in MMIS Systems
• (PeopleSoft, Workday, etc.)

Kind and Length of Experience: 

• 4 years leadership experience in a hospital or integrated healthcare system with directly related experience in evaluating clinical product/physician preference items and in the standardization/utilization of products. 
• Experience in working with clinical/non-clinical multi-disciplinary work groups is required. 
• 4 years progressive participation in and responsibility for process improvement/savings implementation projects and/or quality management efforts.

FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Ref. Number
JR303359

Category
Supply Chain

Department
Corporate Edgewood Supply Chain Management Administration

Shift
1st Shift

Hours
40 hours

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