Manager of Access and Procurement

It’s More Than a Career, It’s a Mission.

Our people are the foundation of our success. By joining our growing team at Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI), a subsidiary of McKesson, you will have the opportunity to become part of one of the largest community-based cancer programs to advance oncology treatments and improve outcomes for cancer patients across the globe. We look for mission-driven candidates who have a desire to advance the fight against cancer and make a difference in the lives of patients diagnosed with cancer every day.

Our Mission

People who live with cancer – those who work to prevent it, fight it, and survive it – are at the heart of every decision we make. Bringing the most innovative medical minds together with the most passionate caregivers in their communities, we are transforming care and personalizing treatment. Through clinical excellence and cutting-edge research, SCRI is redefining cancer care around the world.

The Manager of Access and Procurement provides managerial leadership in establishing goals and priorities and in the overall management of current and planned technical services within SCRI. This position ensures continuity and alignment of technical services direction with SCRI IT strategies.

Primary responsibilities include serving as the Manager of Access and Procurement for SCRI, managing the work activities of identity access management personnel assigned. Coordinating consistent support of access management and procurement activity within SCRI. This individual also assists in resolving highly complex issues regarding technical services, coordinates facility technical projects, acquisitions, assists in developing strategies for training and tools for technical services across the organization, and champions standardization, utilization, optimization and use of best practices in technical services.

The Manager of Access and Procurement requires subject matter knowledge across technical applications, access and procurement.  This position must stay abreast of latest technical developments to ensure service levels pro-actively meet or exceed SCRI requirements and service level agreements with key stakeholders.

This position requires strong people management skills, personal drive, and the ability to see strategy through to execution. Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills are required.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for technical and managerial leadership in establishing goals and priorities and in the overall management of current and planned technical services for SCRI.

• Maintains strong relationships with McKesson technical services team, Sr Director Technology Services, ISRM and CIO.

• Meets with facility-level leadership teams, as needed, to align strategy, services, and coordinate implementation activities regarding access and/or procurement.

• Responsible for personnel management, performance reviews, competency development, and coaching of technical services and access resources.

• Builds and maintains relationships with business operations, IT leaders, and vendors.

• Participates in resource planning and allocates resources to meet goals of the identity management and procurement areas, IT goals and business priorities.

• Organizes, plans, assigns, and monitors completion of work for the Access and Procurement team.

• Assist with the design, implementation, monitoring, and support of identity management processes, SOPs, ISAMs, to support SCRI.

• Ensure user/application access requests are processed timely and appropriately.

• Support leadership in processing access requests for non-research applications

• Support leadership in processing access requests for research applications

• Provide development support for adding new research applications into SCRI approved ISRM managed systems.

• Manage additional staff to support Access and Procurement processes and tools.

• Participates in the development of SCRI and McKesson technical standards, policies, and procedures as appropriate.

• Ensures that the design and use of IAM processes adhere to established SCRI and McKesson policies, procedures, and standards.

• Establishes and manages internal service level agreements and ensures external service level agreements