Dir. Purchased Svcs and Indirect Sourcing

Title: Director, Purchased Services and Indirect Sourcing

Location: Fountain Valley, CA

Department: Material Resources

Status: Full-time

Shift: Days

Pay Range*: 154 -212k

MemorialCare is a nonprofit integrated health system that includes four leading hospitals, award-winning medical groups – consisting of over 200 sites of care, and more than 2,000 physicians throughout Orange and Los Angeles Counties. We are committed to increasing access to patient-centric, affordable, and high-quality healthcare; your personal contributions are integral to MemorialCare's recognition as a market leader and innovator in value-based and other care models.

Across our family of medical centers, we support each one of our bright, talented employees in reaching the highest levels of professional development, contribution, collaboration, and accountability. Whatever your role and whatever expertise you bring, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential in an environment of respect, innovation, and teamwork.

Position Summary

Responsible to manage the system wide portfolio of contract categories across the assigned service line including Sourcing, Value Analysis, Contracting, Implementation and Maintenance. The Director serves as business adviser, gathering market knowledge and assisting in the development of non-salary cost management goals and processes on behalf of the organization.Director facilitates the assigned service line Value Analysis committee, direct work with business units, and strategic projects to ensure maximum value in the acquisition of new technology, sourcing, contracting, utilization management, standardization, and maximization of GPO services and opportunities. Under the leadership of Executive Director, Purchased Services, the Director supports and educates department customers to maximize system wide contract management and cost reduction opportunities, maximizing utilization of services and vendors, facilitate product/service conversions, standardizations, evaluations, trials, resolves backorder and defective product/service issues. Works closely with Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain Analysts and provides coaching and mentoring to Strategic Sourcing Managers and business units to ensure compliance with contract pricing and maximize use of informatics, best practices, utilization, benchmarking, and GPO membership resources.

Essential Function

·This role will provide leadership for Purchased Services categories and ensure business/operation leaders understand priorities and needs for category under responsibility. Develop and manage category optimization strategies including vendor consolidation, utilization management, effective 3^rd party agreements, GPO Tier Max, local negotiations, Requests for Proposals ( RFP ) or a competitive bidding process.

·Work with Vice President of Supply Management to create, identify and execute system-wide and business unit opportunities for cost savings and / or establish contractual relationships with suppliers of products, equipment and services, aka category workplan.

·The individual will make recommendations to leadership and business units, by aggregating the voice of the internal customer while ensuring appropriate resourcing and bandwidth meets the business needs

·Leads cross-functional teams using spend data analytics, market research, benchmarks, and cost modeling to identify and leverage high value opportunities that deliver innovative and sustainable value, operational efficiencies, and risk mitigation to the business

·Contract Calendar and Renewal Framework – Review contracts at least 180 days before contract expiration date and develop strategies for optimization of spend for the entire contract category.

·Engage and collaborate with Stakeholders to review, collaborate and gain alignment for strategies designed to optimize the entire contract category.

·Works closely with Strategic Sourcing Manager and Analysts to ensure compliance with local agreements and GPO and system-wide negotiated contracts and ensure price integrity. Maximizes use of informatics for contract price compliance; supply cost and utilization analyses; savings actualization; benchmarking resources; and mining for cost reduction opportunities.

·Responsible for facilitation and Collaboration with the Value Analysis Teams within assigned service line. Develop relationships with department stakeholders and gain alignment on assuring maximum value opportunities for supplies, and capital acquisition through sourcing, contract negotiation, supply conversion opportunities and identified supply utilization and standardization efficiencies.

·Support the review of new product/service requests for alignment with strategies of the appropriate contract category.

·Represents the organization in negotiating effective and market competitive contracts, ensures that renewal contracts are consistent with goals of the organization and affected end users, and ensures that integrity and fairness are maintained during the RFP process.

·With clearly defined hand-offs and communications, work closely with the with Legal Counsel and Contract Administrators in successful contract negotiations.

·Enhance the Contract Award and Launch with clear communication to Stakeholder (s) and support the implementation as appropriate.

·Responsible for management of strategic supplier relationships within assigned purchased services service line to maximize service, quality and overall cost.

·Schedule regular business reviews with Strategic Suppliers and maintaining supplier scorecards to measure performance across all areas of cost, service, quality, policy compliance and other KPIs as appropriate.

·Responsible for ensuring that all Supplier representatives comply with Supplier representation policies and issuing disciplinary actions when appropriate.

*Placement in the pay range is based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, relevant years of experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, there may be additional compensation available for this role, including but not limited to, shift differentials, extra shift incentives, and bonus opportunities. Health and wellness is our passion at MemorialCare—that includes taking good care of employees and their dependents. We offer high quality health insurance plan options, so you can select the best choice for your family. And there’s more... Check out our MemorialCare Benefits for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications/Work Experience:

·         Required Minimum of ten years’ experience in value analysis, strategic sourcing, analytics and project management.

·         Leadership experience with managing category workplans, savings opportunities, managing RFP process

Education/Licensure/Certification:

·         Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university or equivalent combination of education and experience in business, accounting, legal, finance or the like.