Executive Director Supply Chain

Job Summary

Oversees and directs departmental activities to ensure quality services for both internal and external customers. Serves as a resource to and collaborates with others to advance the Health System mission.

Job Specific Duties

• Provides executive leadership of a system value analysis process for the selection and standardization of clinical supplies that solicits input from physicians, clinicians, and leadership in a formal manner. 
• Facilitates the selection and contracting of capital equipment, construction, and related services as the voice to the marketplace and intermediary to the NCHS business owners. 
• Responsible for centralized distribution center for a healthcare system. 
• Provides leadership and strategic direction for developing and executing a comprehensive integrated supply chain management strategy. 
• Promotes and reports operational activities and savings to senior leadership.
• Identifies process improvement initiatives and expense management opportunities to achieve cost reduction goals. 
• Oversees system logistical operations by providing leadership direction and guidance in the areas related to procurement, warehousing, distribution, courier service and mail, inventory control, shipping, receiving, and freight management. 
• Develops system-wide cost containment strategies without losing focus on quality outcomes and/or individual departmental needs. 
• Implements best practices and automation in various areas of supply-chain. 
• Oversee MMIS strategies related to inbound and outbound procurement, EDI protocols, and other automated strategies. 
• Ensures financial results that are reflected in the supply line and through financial indicators set by the organization. 
• Coordinate and expand the scope/influence of supply chain management activities. 
• Active within the GPO, including serving on significant committees, developing a leadership role within the organization, and being active in evaluating contracts. 
• Collect, validate, and establish on-going trends for measures of supply utilization by department, patient type/diagnosis, and physician for all clinical areas. Target high volume/high cost supplies for focused attention relative to reduced consumption and/or the identification of potential lower cost alternatives.
• Engage physician participation through provision of aggregate and anonymous individual supply utilization/consumption trend reporting by patient type and diagnosis with acuity adjustment. Provide feedback to physicians and departments on achievement of resource utilization targets combined with patient outcome measures. 
• Ensures appropriate supervision of staff, including orientation, training, regular meetings, day-to-day activities, and evaluation within the established department and NCHS guidelines. 

Minimum Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Healthcare or related field
• More than 10 years of progressive healthcare material management experience
• Minimum of 10 years of experience as Supply Chain Top Leadership Role of a multifacility healthcare organization

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Master’s Degree or demonstrated 10 years Healthcare Supply Chain Director level experience.
• Supply Chain leadership of multi-facility organization with full range of supply chain scope.
• Leadership of a clinically driven supply chain that utilizes value analysis decision making.
• Analytical ability to evaluate data, make judgments, and recommendations regarding operations and budgets.
• Demonstrate developed qualities in negotiation and decision making.
• Able to evaluate supply chain related decisions in terms of the overall organizational mission and longterm goals and objectives.
• Ability to evaluate business opportunities and major contract opportunities.
• Capacity to design and implement sophisticated management systems.
• Ability to develop/articulate policy and program objectives and achieve consensus relative to their implementation.
• Analytic ability to synthesize data from disparate sources to identify operational and financial trends.
• Ability to work closely with information system personnel.