AVP Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing

Position Title:

AVP Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing

Department:

Supply Chain

Job Description:

General Description:

The AVP Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing oversees the Contracting, Value Analysis, and Informatics activities for OU Health Supply Chain. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: planning and leading the contracting life cycle strategic and operational activities within the departments to include effective integration and implementation of a Supply Chain Informatics strategy. Leads the development and integration of data visualization tools, master data files, and Supply Chain ERP optimization across the enterprise. The Administrative Director, Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing is responsible for continuous improvement and the development of appropriate policies, procedures, and processes to ensure effective and efficient Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing operations. Identifies strategic value creation opportunities and cascades goals throughout the Strategic Sourcing department in order to achieve them.

Essential Responsibilities:

Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position.  Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position. 

• Oversight of the OU Health Supply Chain Value Analysis Team to ensure identification and proper vetting of the potential cost saving and/or improvement of quality of care initiatives.
• To lead, direct, and manage non-labor contracting for OU Health.
• To ensure that the contract portfolio is effective, efficient, meets the requirements of the hospital and is optimized between the Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) and local contracts and agreements.
• To work closely with other members of the OU Health Supply Chain leadership team to ensure that contracts are created in the best overall interests of the enterprise.
• To create strategic alliances with suppliers to leverage volume and optimize price and spend.
• Develops and leads the standardization and consolidation of the contracting process for OU Health.
• Monitors markets to understand changes and product introductions to ensure contract portfolio remains relevant to market conditions.
• Develops and maintains departmental policies and procedures that ensure an effective and efficient purchasing operation. Provides recommendations to improve Procurement to Payment (P2P) process.
• Leads and/or directs improvement efforts with customers throughout OU Health, Supply Chain staff, and end users in order to enhance and execute daily work within the Supply Chain systems.
• Responsible for the overall measurement and analytic support within Supply Chain.
• Works in close partnership with OU Health IT Services leadership in relation to larger strategic needs across OU Health.
• Support and work extensively with the leaders of the Supply Chain as well as others within the hospital to assist with data accumulation, analysis, data visualization, preparation, and presentation.
• Works with others both within the department and OU Health to understand information needs, support requests for data and present analysis and recommendations.
• Overseeing technical projects in addition to redundancy and data backup in conjunction with disaster preparedness and downtime procedures.
• Establishes tools and mechanisms to gather, aggregate, measure and report on key cost, value, and operational issues.
• Creates and oversees processes to ensure strong internal controls related to vendor and item master files.
• Facilitate processes and support for the Supply Chain systems, managing changes and resolving issues that span work teams and the departments impacted by directing activities and staff in a cost effective and productive manner to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Ensuring the consistency and maintainability of existing applications by creating, supporting, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing technical solutions.
• Use experience and judgment to manage and accomplish goals on complex Supply Chain Management issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variables.
• Manage a portfolio of systems ranging from highly strategic and business critical, while seeking out improvements to enhance work function.
• Interviews, hires, conduct performance evaluations, trains and attends to personnel issues with staff under his/her area of responsibility.

Leadership

• Provide leadership and guidance to ensure that supply chain activities are cost effective, create value, and meet customer expectations.
• Demonstrate the ability within a team assignment to take a lead role in interpreting and applying resolution techniques; management of diversity in the workplace; effective com