Executive Director Supply Chain

Description

This position is incentive eligible.

Introduction

We are seeking an Executive Director Supply Chain with HealthTrust Performance Group to promote growth and unlock possibilities. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life. Share your leadership skills and come make a difference with us!

Benefits

HealthTrust Performance Group, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.
  
  

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Job Summary And Qualifications

As the Executive Director Supply Chain, you are responsible for the daily operations of all supply chain functions conducted within specific Mercy Communities; serving as the liaison between the Consolidated Service Center and the respected hospitals. The Executive Director is also responsible for recommending and developing process improvement initiatives that support the Unified Supply Chain efforts. This includes integration of supply chain services with the hospital’s primary functions, implementation of policies and procedures that guide or support services, assess and improve supply chain performance, and ensure orientation and continuing education of appropriate team members. In this role, you will work closely with ROi Senior Leadership, Mercy Strategic Supply Chain, and local facility leadership and perform responsibilities in a manner consistent with the mission, values, and service standards of Mercy Health and HealthTrust.

What you will do in this role:

• Lead all areas of supply chain within specific communities to include procurement, receiving, order fulfillment, inventory management, courier services, record storage & retrieval as well as equipment management.
• Acts as a liaison to the ambulatory clinics and inpatient facilities with respect to supply chain management.
• Ensures supply chain activities meet or exceed all industry and customer requirements for quality, service, and cost.
• Communicates and implements goals and objectives for operations of reporting.
• Manages sourcing and contracting initiatives from conception to completion; leveraging various internal and external contacts to ensure effective financial stewardship and responsive customer service.
• Collaborates and develops strong working relationships with various department leaders, physician leaders, other clinicians, hospital senior management, and supply chain staff to create healthy markets and competitive sourcing environment.
• Leads “time-limited/subject focused” teams and standing teams to identify opportunities to source and implement effective strategic sourcing and contracting strategies for major categories of Mercy Health spend.
• Identifies and develops cost reduction ideas and initiatives, including alternative strategies for implementation consideration.
• Engages suppliers and operational staff to ensure timely resolution of any service and delivery issues.
• Assembles and presents business cases to include data analysis, supplier capabilities/differentiation, market data and business requirements.
• Measures and monitors contract compliance and pending savings opportunities, supplier performance per contract service level agreements and realized cost savings. Reports on statistics to department leaders and senior leaders of the Mercy Community.
• Participates in value analysis teams, stakeholders and department meetings representing the department, conveying the philosophy, and demonstrating the principles of supply chain management to user departments.
• Acts as a resource to departments and staff regarding contractual agreements with suppliers.
• Analyzes processes, recommends internal improvements, and assists in reviews of procurement policies and procedures.
• Adheres to the Mercy Health Code of Conduct and Ethics Standard, displaying, as applicable, ethical behavior in the areas of business ethics, legal compliance, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, vendor relationships and the reporting of questionable activities.
• Execute the infrastructure project plan for the facility. This includes the implementation of the standardization programs for all supply chain functions, master file standardization, online requisitioning, and EDI.
• Manage the profit and loss of the facility Supply Chain operations.
• Manage disaster supplies and processes, ensuring facility/facilities are prepared for disasters.
• Facilitate the implementation of market-based purchasing projects at the facility.
• Execute the implementation and operational plan for all the point of use systems
• Oversight of Inventory Optimization Managers
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferably in Business Management, Finance, Accounting, Logistics, Supply Chain, healthcare related focus, required; Masters degree preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in a leadership role, required
• 10+ years of experience in supply chain related activities, required
• Possess external knowledge of healthcare group purchasing market influences, required.
• Understand efficient and current supply chain trends within the healthcare industry, required.
• Demonstrated experience with continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., LEAN, Six Sigma, etc.) preferred
  
  

HealthTrust Supply Chain is a critical part of HCA Healthcare’s strategy. Our focus is to improve performance and reduce costs. We do this by joining non-clinical and administrative functions. HealthTrust Supply Chain best practice methodologies. We develop, apply and monitor cost-efficient initiatives and programs for HCA Healthcare. By improving facility efficiency, medical professionals can focus on our mission - patient care.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Join our family of over 180 hospitals and about 2,000 sites of care to drive excellence and raise the bar for our over 35 million annual patient encounters.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.