Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist

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 implement 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: 
Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, finance, supply chain management, or a closely related field is preferred; Master’s Degree preferred

Licensure, Certification & Registration:

• Certified Materials and Resource Professional (CMRP) certification preferred

Experience:

• Seven (7) years of purchasing, contracting, or materials management experience, preferably in a healthcare setting
• Five (5) years or more of contract negotiating experience.
• Expertise in healthcare physician preference items and knowledge of clinical commodity items used in acute patient areas is preferred.
• Experience in healthcare value analysis is preferred.
• The incumbent should have progressive management and leadership experiences Purchased Service proficiency is expected. 

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
• Workday experience preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong project management skills including the ability to plan, organize, and complete work projects in a cross-functional team setting
• Results and deadline-oriented with the ability to manage competing priorities under pressure
• Strong relationship management skills with the ability to gain buy-in from employees not directly under his/her span of control
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

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Dept./Unit-Specific Skills:      
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As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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