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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.

Education

Bachelor's Degree- (Required)

Experience

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

About Geisinger

Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes ten hospital campuses, a 550,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Our Vision & Values

Everything we do is about making better health easier 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.

Our Benefits

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and prescription coverage.