Chief Supply Chain Officer

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The Chief Supply Chain Officer has executive responsibility for supply chain management operations across all business entities of the University of Miami, including both the health system and university. This includes sourcing, contracting, strategic procurement, value analysis, warehousing, distribution, management of capital assets, and routine purchasing for equipment selection and procurement associated with major construction projects.

This position has responsibility for a $3.5+ billion spend as well as the movement of supplies throughout the system. The Chief Supply Chain Officer will drive the organization’s centrally led procurement organization, refining and implementing best-in-class procurement strategies and processes, and will arrange for the distribution of procured supplies and equipment throughout the organization. The Chief Supply Chain Officer will proactively work with suppliers, operations groups, and management teams to understand business requirements, identify opportunities where the supply chain can add value, and work collaboratively to facilitate the development and implementation of all initiatives.

Importantly, this key leader will provide senior leadership and strategic direction related to supply chain services that ensure strategies, policies, and practices are consistent with and supportive of the University’s mission, vision, value, and goals.

Consistent with the above, the University expects its next Chief Supply Chain Officer to serve with integrity and an of-service mindset, to bring a spirit of collaboration and community building to their work, to demonstrate a passion for achieving excellence, and to make decisions that display an ability to develop and execute strategic initiatives guided by a clear and compelling vision for the future of the University and higher education as a whole.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Oversight of a high-functioning supply chain:

• Collaborates with University and UHealth leadership to establish a vision, guiding and operating principles, and team commitment to a vendor contracting strategy and processes that result in a comprehensive portfolio covering the majority of supplies, services, and capital expenditures, minimizing risk and direct purchases, while assisting operating entities in achieving their supply and service budgetary requirements.
• Day-to-day operations and managing across the entire supply chain: negotiation, acquisition, consumption, delivery, and inventory of supplies. Develops a vision for improving productivity and quality in these areas, including biomedical engineering equipment maintenance, planning for end-of-life replacement of obsolete items, and ensuring competitive market pricing across the contract portfolio through effective negotiations.
• Implementation of effective user-friendly supply chain processes that optimize the use of technology, enhance practitioner workflow, and provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Responsible for the enterprise-wide vendor contract portfolio.
• Enhance capabilities in supply chain analytics and business intelligence. Ensure high-reliability processes are in place for data governance, data integration, data mining, spend analytics, comparative benchmarking, utilization trends, procedure costing, spend forecasting, and opportunity analysis.
• Establishes and maintains supply chain operational metrics, including supply expense as a percentage of net patient services revenue and total operating expenses, realized savings, contract and initiative time to execution, aggregate and service line price index targets, percentage of expenditures on purchase orders, inventory levels, and other related metrics. Generates monthly reports and dashboards and participates in executive reviews.
• Engages physicians to provide resource utilization and cost data and to present opportunities to leverage the value UHealth receives from the vendors of resource-intensive physician preference implants and devices. Provides credible price benchmark data and implements contracting strategies, scorecards, and ongoing monitoring processes that maintain physician support and compliance.
• Able to achieve strategic plan alignment for the acquisition of new products, equipment, and technology by influencing practitioners and clinical teams to address concerns, overcome resistance, and gain support and buy‑in to UHealth's initiatives involving clinical preference products and services. Works in conjunction with executives and operational leaders to assist with the acquisition of major capital equipment purchases and resource-intensive technologies.
• Oversees the negotiation and execution of capital equipment agreements to ensure the University and UHealth achieve a market-competitive total cost of ownership. Maintains adequate inventory levels and emergency reserves. This includes critical personnel protective equipment and other critical supplies needed for an emergency or pandemic response. Provides oversight of operational inventory reserves maintained by UHealth.
• Works in collaboration with the quality and safety, EVS, and facilities leaders to manage warehouse inventory levels and coordinate emergency response efforts.

DESIRED OUTCOMES

• Support UHealth’s $1.5 billion construction initiative, helping to deliver plans on time and on budget.
• Revamp and develop the organizational structure to meet the future needs of UHealth and the University.
• Implement a results-oriented, collaborative culture within the supply chain function where the supply chain department becomes a trusted resource that partners with operators to produce strategic cost savings.
• Implement the supply chain modules within Workday, replacing the 16 separate systems that exist today, and managing the change management programs to accompany this.
• Strengthen the analytics function, enhancing the ability to produce useful insights that support clinical and operational teams.
• Evaluate and implement logistics strategy with current or other distributors.
• Bolster the process controls that ensure consistent, high-performing operations.
• Continue to centralize the supply chain services that support UHealth, the School of Medicine, and the University.

IDEAL EXPERIENCE

• Experienced healthcare services supply chain leader
• At least 10 years of experience in healthcare supply chain, including a minimum of eight years in management roles. Ideal scope to include contracting, sourcing, procurement, value analysis, logistics, and management of biomedical engineering.
• Experience in supply chain organization with operating revenues in excess of $3 billion
• Familiarity with complex, multi-location healthcare services organizations with competing priorities.
• Proven ability to create and sustain an integrated supply chain strategy
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of logistics, warehousing, and distribution, ideally in acute care, multi-hospital, and academic system environments. In-depth knowledge of broad supply chain processes and
• best practices.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of supply chain data and analytics
• Has leveraged comparative benchmarking and operational measurement processes related to supply chain to drive performance and results.
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, finance, or related field
• Master's degree is preferred.

CRITICAL LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES

Driving Results

• Acts to surpass team goals, seizing opportunities to extend the limits of what is possible.
• Sets continually higher goals for the team that are ambitious but achievable.
• Identifies and acts on new opportunities that enable performance targets to be exceeded.
• Seeks new challenges and is energized by exceeding targets.

Leading People

• Creates and promotes a satisfying employee work environment.
• Attracts, recruits, and retains top talent and motivates the team.
• Identifies and develops individual strengths and potential within the team.
• Engages the team in discussions about the longer-term strategy and how each member can make contributions.
• Delegates significant responsibilities to team members to free self to work on other priorities.
• Gives team members decision-making authority and accountability within their areas of responsibility.
• Invites the team to recommend ways to solve problems, discuss challenging issues, or generate new ideas.

Collaborating and Influencing

• Identifies all necessary stakeholders and connects with them to gain support or agreement.
• Negotiates with a genuine give-and-take approach that takes all parties’ perspectives into account.
• Takes advantage of opportunities to build strategic relationships to achieve a specific outcome.
• Engages others in open dialogue and adapts one’s own influence approach to different stakeholders in ways that address their interests and concerns.
• Anticipates emerging or potential conflicts among all stakeholders and takes steps to pre-empt them.

OTHER PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

• Leader that embraces the strong culture at UHealth and the University of Miami and creates an environment in the supply chain group that fosters this same team-based, collaborative culture.
• Excellent communication skills to interact effectively with a variety of stakeholders: board of directors, executive and clinical leadership, patients, their family members, clinicians, and co-workers.
• Customer service-minded in all communication, utilizing positive language principles.
• Strategic thinker who is an insightful problem solver and decision maker.
• Highest level of integrity.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

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