Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Join The BILH Team

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

This role will ensure BILH negotiates optimal system-wide contracts from both a cost and quality perspective. This role will identify and prioritize both clinical and purchased service contracts to be renegotiated at a system level, driving the process and focusing on vendor consolidation, appropriate short-term contracts, and other initiatives that will generate substantial savings for the health system.

Job Description

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to :

• Evaluates internal and benchmarking data to identify purchased service and clinical cost savings opportunities
• Develops and implements BILH contracts to ensure cost-effective and quality-driven supplies and services
• Manages vendor relationships, develops contract / relationship performance goals and criteria, and serves as a subject matter expert resource
• Works collaboratively with all key stakeholders, including supply chain, clinical departments, and finance on cost savings initiatives specifically relating to contracting operations
• Leads and / or staffs multi-disciplinary teams to select / standardize contracting choices that maximize supply chain savings while meeting clinical and operational needs. Conducts and / or staffs group meetings to facilitate contract review, trials, and implementation
• Evaluates the success of the contract once implemented, reconciles problems between BILH and vendors, and makes relevant recommendations to best meet the supply chain needs of the system
• Analyzes data and provide cost savings reports to leadership on a routine basis
• Shares information and educates managers and physicians throughout the system to advance others' ability to improve supply chain performance
• Builds, maintains, and manages strong partnerships with our strategic vendors

Minimum Qualifications

Licensure, Certification & Registration

Experience

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

Dept. / Unit-Specific Skills : N / A

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Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled