Senior Contract Analyst

What you will be doing:

The Senior Contract Analyst is responsible for the creation of analytic deliverables for the Member Value Enablement ("MVE") division to support strategies to bring top value to the membership and revenue opportunities for Premier. The Senior Contract Analyst will be responsible for creating high standard, reliable analytics deliverables and executing on-time improved analytics deliverables to optimize the value of the GPO, clinical tools, and services. The Senior Contract Analyst will be responsible for assisting the Manager in the training, prioritization of tasks, complex issue resolution and troubleshooting.

The Senior Contract Analyst will work with the Director, Manager, and Contract Analysts to support the needs of the member and commercial team nationwide to ensure new technology & processes meet their needs. In addition, the Contract Analyst will be responsible for awareness and knowledge of other business groups to better serve accounts and to drive additional member engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Analysis - 80%

• Creating high quality, member-ready analytic deliverables including complex contract categories management to support members and revenue generation
• Identify and assist with complex issue resolution and troubleshoot data/tool issues for escalation to the Manager for resolution
• Assist the Manager to identify any gaps in member solutions including Sourcing/Contracting, Technology and Analytics
• Adhere to data standard and governance guidelines
• Train and onboard new MVE staff on reports and processes
• Follow Member Operation Plans outlining nuances for report creation
• Maintain an understanding of all the revenue driving and value add products and services offered to the membership
• Understand data flow, large data set review, and cleanup issues (ex: UOM)
• Prioritize tasks and provide support on complex deliverables to ensure timely completion
• Generate a variety of other ad-hoc analytical work products required to manage the account.
• Conduct routine analytics required to demonstrate the value of Premier contracts and to drive contract penetration.
• Become an expert on Supply Chain ITS tools. This includes the collection, uploading, management, and manipulation of all related data.
• Respond to issues quickly and correctly and ensure they are resolved or escalated within the account management team

MVE Analytics Development - 20%

• Support the development of MVE goals of enabling Premier members to realize their supply chain and clinical improvement potential, optimizing the value of the GPO, clinical tools, and services.
• Support an evolving analytics model by providing insights about data, optimization, performance, and technology.
• Participate in cross functional teams across Business unit's regional operations teams as requested
• Understand organizational structure and related product offerings
• Understand how supply chain collaboratives work, including rules and member and contract eligibility.

Required Qualifications

Work Experience:
Years of Applicable Experience - 4 or more years
Education:
High School Diploma or GED (Required)

Preferred Qualifications

Skills:

• Health Care
• Business analytics
• Communication and presentation skills
• Intermediate/Advanced skills with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel and PowerPoint)
• Familiarity with Advanced Business Intelligence tools or data pulls for strategic process creation
• Ability to organize large amounts of data gathered during elicitation and analysis, and to cope with rapidly changing information
• Customer service skills (internal and external customers)
• Deep knowledge of spend & supply market analysis concepts
• Analytical skills to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information into more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs and distinguish solution ideas from requirements
• In-depth understanding and knowledge of Premier data sources
• Ability to mentor and train less experienced staff members
• Large data set review skills
• Ability to manage and lead cross-functional team collaboration
• Ability to prioritize member needs and provide coverage
• Ability to troubleshoot and communicate data/tool issues
• Organizational skills
• Detailed oriented
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Knowledgeable of Sourcing strategy and ability to integrate with analytics
• Ability to work independently and be self-accountable

Experience:

• Experience in healthcare and IT environment preferred.
• Similar analytic experience preferred.
• Ability to prepare and present clinical and/or financial data utilizing Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Premier tools to share cost management and/or clinical performance improvement opportunities.
• The expectation is that Senior Contract Analysts will have demonstrated capable performance in a Contract Analyst role for a period of 2-3 years or will have equivalent experience for the same amount of time outside of Premier.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree

Additional Job Requirements:

• Remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time
• Be adaptive and change priorities quickly; meet deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Operate computer programs and software
• Ability to communicate effectively with audiences in person and in electronic formats.
• Day-to-day contact with others (co-workers and/or the public)
• Making independent decisions
• Ability to work in a collaborative business environment in close quarters with peers and varying interruptions

Working Conditions: Hospital Environment

Travel Requirements: No travel required

Physical Demands: Sedentary: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves remaining stationary most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if movement is required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Premier's compensation philosophy is to ensure that compensation is reasonable, equitable, and competitive in order to attract and retain talented and highly skilled employees. Premier's internal salary range for this role is $72,000 - $120,000. Final salary is dependent upon several market factors including, but not limited to, departmental budgets, internal equity, education, unique skills/experience, and geographic location. Premier utilizes a wide-range salary structure to allow base salary flexibility within our ranges.

Qualified full-time and part-time employees also receive access to the following benefits:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k retirement program
• Paid time off
• Participation in Premier's employee incentive plans
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities

Employees receive:

• Perks and discounts
• Access to on-site and online exercise classes

Premier is looking for smart, agile individuals like you to help us transform the healthcare industry. Here you will find critical thinkers who have the freedom to make an impact. Colleagues who share your thirst to learn more and do things better. Teammates committed to improving the health of a nation. See why incredible challenges require incredible people.