Director Sourcing

Overview

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center :
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated.

It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Organization: SC Sourcing

Provides leadership in ensuring all approved products are purchased under cost effective contracts. Identifies and coordinates all opportunities for contracting new and existing equipment, supplies, and services. Evaluates products and suppliers. Maintains a collaboration between VUMC and our Supplier community. Overall management and leadership to lead Sr and Principal Sourcing Officers on large initiatives. Ensure contracts are getting completed in a timely manner.

Lead negotiations for master terms with suppliers. Ensure contracts are loaded properly and completely in the contract repository and the ERP systems. Leads and supports sourcing team in the value analysis process. Performs employee evaluations. Provides routine feedback for employees. Provide overall leadership for a unit or department by developing goals, objectives, policies and procedures; supervising, coordinating, and evaluating the activities;

preparing operating and capital expenditure budgets; and performing personnel administration functions.

• 5+ years contract negotiation
• 5+ years people management
• Value analysis experience
• Budget management experience
• CLM experience preferred
• Healthcare experience preferred

• Develop goals and objectives for the department based on interpretation of institutional policy and goals
• Plan to achieve goals or establish priorities
• Help department understand, share and support the vision
• Initiate changes in or develop new policies, procedures and/or methods
• Analyze long-range impact of decisions and plans
• Ensure the most effective operations of the department through program development, process improvement and coordination/integration of processes with other departments
• Design, implement, evaluate and market programs to maximize clinical outcomes, functional status, patient/customer satisfaction and reimbursement
• Standardize services, processes, resources, and practice to improve efficiency
• Supervision to include responsibility for planning, coordinating, and controlling the work and procedures; provide advice/consultation to staff regarding problems
• Adjust work schedules or project priorities to meet emergencies or changing conditions
• Participate on departmental and/or interdepartmental committees to address problems and facilitate information exchange about programs, problems, etc. Provide information to others (oral or written) to explain/clarify problems, issues or requests
• Participate in periodic management meetings to keep top management informed of department problems and concerns
• Analyze and evaluate ongoing department programs to identify areas where adjustments/improvements are needed
• Develop staffing plans to ensure developmental objectives are being met
• Define and achieve financial targets in support of business goals of the institution
• Prepare an annual operating budget for a unit or department, including direct labor, material and supplies, services, equipment maintenance and replacement
• Present and justify a proposed budget (operating and capital expenditure) to a management review committee
• Evaluate organizational functions and structures to best determine the allocation and utilization of resources
• Analyze and evaluate budget variance to determine cause
• Prepare justification or develop alternatives for cost…