Job Description:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to:

This role will ensure BILH negotiates optimal system-wide contracts from both a cost and quality perspective with a focus on capital equipment. This role will identify and prioritize both clinical and purchased service contracts to be renegotiated at a system level, driving the process and focusing on consolidation, appropriate short-term contracts, and other initiatives that will generate substantial savings for the health system.

• Develops and implements BILH contracts to ensure cost-effective and quality-driven equipment and services
• Manages vendor relationships, develops contract/relationship performance goals and criteria, and serves as a subject matter expert resource.
• Works collaboratively with all key stakeholders, including supply chain, clinical departments, and finance on cost savings initiatives specifically relating to contracting operations
• Leads and/or staffs multi-disciplinary teams to select/standardize contracting choices that maximize supply chain savings while meeting clinical and operational needs. Conducts and/or staffs group meetings to facilitate contract review, trials, and implementation.
• Evaluates the success of the contract once implemented, reconciles problems between BILH and vendors, and makes relevant recommendations to best meet the supply chain needs of the system.

Analyzes data and provide cost savings reports to leadership on a routine basis

Shares information and educates managers and physicians throughout the system to advance others' ability to improve supply chain performance

Builds, maintains, and manages strong partnerships with our strategic vendors

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, finance, supply chain management, or a closely related field is preferred; Master’s Degree preferred

Licensure, Certification & Registration:

Certified Materials and Resource Professional (CMRP) certification preferred

Experience:

Seven (7) years of purchasing, contracting, or materials management experience, preferably in a healthcare setting

Five (5) years or more of contract negotiating experience.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications

Workday experience preferred

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Strong project management skills including the ability to plan, organize, and complete work projects in a cross-functional team setting

Results and deadline-oriented with the ability to manage competing priorities under pressure

Strong relationship management skills with the ability to gain buy-in from employees not directly under his/her span of control

Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

Pay Range:

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geographyof work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.