Job Summary

Comprehensive and strategic oversight of all supply chain sourcing efforts for assigned portfolio of categories. Accountable for achieving financial targets. Collaborates with clinical and operational leaders to identify opportunities, deliver value, and meet patient needs. Influences and negotiates multi-million-dollar contracts while minimizing risk. Supervises, coaches, and assesses team members to improve performance and develop talent.

Job Duties

• Builds and fosters long-term relationships with internal leaders and suppliers, owning end-to-end delivery of business needs for categories under management.
• Identifies and understands key initiatives of business unit and short, medium, and long-term goals; ensures alignment of sourcing strategies and initiatives with leaders’ expectations.
• Drives the adoption of change practices with business leaders, suppliers and stakeholders to advance strategic programs; and interacts with senior leadership to accelerate decisions.
• Leverages data, advanced analytics, and insights to actively identify opportunities to achieve supply expense reduction, defines strategy for achievement and removes barriers to successful implementation.
• Responsible for supplier relationship management and independently persuades, influences and negotiates multi-million-dollar contracts with suppliers to meet the organization’s strategic objectives.
• Optimizes contract portfolio for hundreds of products, equipment and service agreements and reduces risk to the organization.
• Demonstrates advanced expertise of markets, suppliers, and related products, equipment and services that optimize quality, service, risk, utilization, standardization, innovation and cost across the system.
• Ensures all bidding activity within the category is conducted in an open, fair and transparent procurement process (may include RFI, RFP, etc.) that delivers best value with integrity and meets all ethical standards
• Maintains a disciplined application of standard work including standard operating procedures, tools, etc. to achieve objectives and final deliverables within a finite timescale and budget.
• Assists in building tools and dashboards to continue improving strategic sourcing and organization workflow using lean methodologies for efficiency, time management and tracking.
• Motivates and empowers teams; coaches, develops and assesses team members to improve performance and prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; helps fulfill career objectives.
• Responsible for all aspects of employee management including hiring, compensation, performance, succession planning, etc.
• Promotes adherence to all policies, procedures, and regulations; provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made.

Work is typically performed in an office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

Position Details

Education

Bachelor's Degree- (Required)

Experience

Minimum of 7 years-Related work experience (Required), Minimum of 5 years-Managerial/Supervisory (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s)

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.

We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.

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