Sr Nurse Clinical Specialist- Supply Chain

Job Summary

Provide clinical expertise and customer education programs, materials, and resources in support of Medline clinical products and/or services.
Supports driving the supply chain objectives across multiple clinics to support the health care organization's clinical and cost agendas. Provide end-user insight to clinical process enhancement and improvement opportunities in order to secure or enhance current business.

Job Description

This hybrid position will work 2 days a week in the Chicago office and 3 days a week from home, unless travel is to another Chicago area office location.

Responsibilities

• Serve as clinical liaison between Medline and customer

• Provide clinical support to customers and salesforce on clinical products and services

• Assist in identifying and reviewing opportunities for clinically acceptable conversions to drive savings for customer through product cross reference and sampling

• Partner with sales force on product trials, conversions and implementations

• Support system/clinic wide SKU rationalization

• Collaborate with clinical teams and inventory to operationalize and initiate product conversions as well as provide ongoing support to ensure successful product utilization

• Records and prepares product and service utilization reports and updates applicable teams

• Works in collaboration with the CSBA and Medline account manager to develop strategies and identify process improvements that are focused on substantial supply/service cost reduction, standardization and utilization, while maintaining or enhancing quality

• Oversees opportunities and develops qualitative/quantitative analyses and methodologies for product/service utilization and cost reduction efforts focused on cost containment, utilization, waste reduction, and overall cost per service

• Assists in connecting relevant product education materials between requesting department, education team and associated vendor

• Evaluate relevant policies and procedures upon request; collaborate onsite with clinicians to finalize current practice, clinical protocols and SOPs 

• Conduct discovery assessments or coordinates specialty clinician discovery assessment; present findings of discovery assessments to Provider’s Supply Chain and Nursing Leadership and end users

• Formulate strategies and plans for product and solution development

• Provide recommendations on practice improvement in conjunction with national nursing protocols

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree

• At least 5 years of clinical experience (patient care, education, or medical sales/support)

• This position will be located onsite at our customer's headquarters located in Chicago. Periodic travel will be required to customer's satellite locations throughout the Chicago area

• Experience developing and delivering presentations/clinical information to various audience levels within an organization

• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions

• Experience prioritizing workload and scheduling effectively in order to meet deadlines

• Experience developing and delivering presentations to various audience levels within, and external to, an organization

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

• Environment includes office setting and medical facilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare supply chain or value analysis experience

Medline Industries, LP, and its subsidiaries, offer a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

The anticipated salary range for this position:

$96,200.00 - $144,560.00 Annual

The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s location, education, experience, skills, and abilities. This role is bonus and/or incentive eligible. Medline will not pay less than the applicable minimum wage or salary threshold.

Our benefit package includes health insurance, life and disability, 401(k) contributions, paid time off, etc., for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits please click here. For roles where employees work less than 30 hours per week, benefits include 401(k) contributions as well as access to the Employee Assistance Program, Employee Resource Groups and