Senior Contract Specialist - Pharmacy

Overview

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

Senior Corporate Contracts Specialist, reporting to the Strategic Sourcing Manager, will be responsible for generating, identifying, and sourcing ideas as a result of their own research combined with information provided by Supply Chain Analytics, vendors, GPO's, user groups, benchmarked purchase data and CEC participants, from all YNHHS entities. Compilation of this YNHHS information, coordination of product trials, preparation of financial analysis, and user group review are required to negotiate consensus of all entities in a given solution and subsequent conversion and implementation plan for any product or service.

All of this is accomplished in direct support of YNHHS and each entity's business plan. Gaining the agreement of all YNHHS facilities requires the Senior Corporate Contracts Specialist to function autonomously in most cases, handling complex multiple tasks with minimal supervision. The ability to change priorities dependent upon organizational need is also necessary. Being a leader and advisor is an expectation of this position.

Responsible for collaborating with various levels of Supply Chain teammates and Hospital personnel (to include all entities within YNHHS) to explore alternatives and negotiate with vendors, contracts and agreements for the acquisition of various supplies and services such as Capital and Professional equipment, furnishings, projects, inventory and department supplies. This work will focus on standardization, reduced/stable pricing, adhering to appropriate purchasing and contracting policies and preparing contract documents that protect the interest of all of the YNHHS entities.

Sr. Contract Specialists are expected to fully utilize the features of Infor Contract Manager and input all contract data, communicate and negotiate in the system, and follow-through by logging savings and tracking associated rebates.

For the Sr. Contract Specialist assigned to Supplier Diversity, this position (reporting to the Director, Strategic Sourcing) is responsible for driving the vision, strategic direction and operations of the supplier diversity and local purchasing strategy for YNHHS. Works with internal teammates in supply chain, corporate facilities, and other areas related to enhancing and growing the diverse and local supplier pool with qualified vendors.

Assists the Director of Strategic Sourcing with developing and managing external relationships with supplier diversity organizations. Partners with Community Health Equity and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to implement the strategy. Develops and implements an internal and external communication plan about supplier diversity, local purchasing and their goals to drive engagement across the organization. Develops and implements a supplier diversity scorecard to report progress and maintains the supplier diversity section of the website.

EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran

• 1. Working with clinical and administrative leadership, performing non-salary expense analysis, generating cost reduction initiatives for all of YNHHS, coordinating bid processes, conducting detailed analyses of bid options, negotiating contracts to promote product standardization, utilization review and expense reduction. Senior Contract Specialist provides leadership at monthly swim lane meetings and is responsible for generating ideas for CGC/OGC/NGC review by all entities.
  
  This includes compiling present spending data for each institution and researching various options for cost savings that may be available either with the products or the utilization of those products. Senior Contract Specialist prepares a separate cost/value analysis for each entity as well as for the System as a whole. This analysis details the present usage /costs as compared with the potential for reducing those costs as a result of change.
  
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