Duke University

Director, Clinical Integration

Duke University • $120K — $150K *
Durham, NC 27713In-Person
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred.
  • Minimum ten years in leadership roles with progressive responsibilities.
  • Supervisory experience mandatory; program leadership experience valued.
  • Strong project management skills; certifications like APICS are a plus.
  • Adaptable to a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead associates in standardized sourcing methodologies and strategies.
  • Create and implement a strategic sourcing roadmap tailored to organizational needs.
  • Collaborate with Supply Chain leadership to drive strategic sourcing initiatives.
  • Manage comprehensive plans for maximizing administrative fees through partnerships.
  • Develop negotiation strategies to optimize service agreements and terms.
  • Lead efforts to standardize inventory management practices across services.
  • Ensure compliance management post-sourcing to reduce clinical variations.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive professional development and training opportunities.
  • Supportive hybrid working environment encouraging work-life balance.
  • Collaboration with leading organizations in healthcare supply chain.
Full Job Description
Occupational Summary

Provide leadership related to the strategic sourcing activities and initiatives across both the Duke University Health System, Inc. (DUHS), as well as Duke University (DU), developing and sustaining a best-in-class sourcing program within the United States.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategic Roadmap
  • Provide leadership for all assigned associates, utilizing a standardized sourcing methodology, contract templates, and pre-requisite sourcing strategy and benchmarking proforma.
  • Develop and utilize a strategic sourcing roadmap that includes a twelve-month forward-looking expired contract roadmap.
  • Develop and execute a strategic sourcing roadmap specific to the needs of the role.
  • Responsible for demonstrating successful leadership collaboration with other members of Supply Chain leadership to foster and advance positive change and strategic sourcing roadmaps that mitigate risk, advance economic value, and serve the overall needs of organizational stakeholders.
  • Provide leadership support, coaching, and candid feedback to the Vice President, Supply Chain in all aspects of responsibility.
  • Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

Financial Value & Sourcing Operations
  • Lead and develop a detailed, comprehensive, and progressive plan with Duke's group purchasing organization to ensure maximum administrative fees are realized for the organization.
  • Interact with the remainder of the Supply Chain strategic sourcing leadership for the purpose of leveraging all initiatives and dollars spent against all capital equipment sourcing initiatives to achieve best pricing for Duke.
  • Develop a standardized set of benchmark tools and processes for assigned services.
  • Identify and cultivate a standardized supply inventory room proforma, including size, room configuration, location proximity to point-of-care environments, and complete with the inclusion of standardized inventory management methodologies and technology capabilities.
  • Lead the development, execution, and achievement of all cost savings initiatives related to the assigned areas of responsibility necessary to support department, DUHS, and DU related initiatives.
  • Utilize department-recognized price benchmarking standards to strive to achieve industry-best pricing across all sourcing-related activities.
  • Develop a specific economic valuation target for each operating fiscal year as a subset of the overall Supply Chain expense reduction targets.
  • Develop a commensurate process to strategically source and negotiate all service-related agreements associated with any sourcing.
  • Negotiate best-in-class terms related to any service agreement-related attribute that impacts overall operating expense (e.g., warranty, service, parts replacement, etc.).
  • Interact with the designated Supply Chain group purchasing organization and any assigned purchasing aggregation groups, complete with detailed benchmarking assessments, for the purpose of generating economic value and overall margin improvement.

Compliance, Standardization & Supplier Management
  • Develop and implement compliance management standards as a post-sourcing activity to ensure agreement-based compliance management, an overall reduction in clinical variation in use, and the migration to product standardization.
  • Act as a responsible and supportive leader in relation to measuring, monitoring, and continuously improving the overall Time to Execution, as targeted within the Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard.
  • Advance the DUHS and DU supplier consolidation and product standardization roadmap.
  • Lead strategic sourcing initiatives necessary to reduce supplier and product variation, serving as a supporting collaborative for both value analysis and Supply Chain Operations in the operational product substitution necessary to support supplier reduction and product standardization
  • Lead all associates in the use and deployment of standards of work, including but not limited to:
    • Standardized sourcing methodologies.
    • Contract repository and sourcing project management platforms.
    • Contract template deployment and utilization.
    • Overall utilization of the Supply Chain balanced scorecard.
  • Develop strategic sourcing plans that, in conjunction with Supply Chain Supplier Diversity, achieve the Tier 1 and Tier 2 supplier diversity goal objectives for Supply Chain, as a subset to the overall objectives from DUHS and DU.
  • Ensure the continued integration and advancement of Supply Chain's integration with the designated group purchasing organization, including any alignment with selected aggregation groups.


Minimum Qualifications

Education
  • Requires a Bachelor's degree.
  • Master's Degree is strongly preferred.
  • Certified Project Management and APICS certification are a plus.

Experience, Degrees, Licensures & Certifications
  • Minimum of ten (10) years in progressively responsible positions including supervision and program leadership.
  • Willingness to effectively lead through an evolving and dynamic work environment, consisting of both in-person and remote working arrangements (Hybrid).

About Duke University

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. Duke's campus spans over 8,600 acres on three contiguous campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. Duke University is consistently ranked among the top 20 universities in the United States and is a member of the prestigious Ivy League. Duke is also known for its highly ranked medical, law, and business schools. Duke University has a diverse student body, with students from all 50 states and over 100 countries. Duke University was founded in 1838 and is located in Durham, North Carolina.
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40,000 employees
Industry
Education, Government & Non-Profit
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