Overview

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

Responsibilities

This is a work from home position but you must be located in either the Colorado Springs, CO or Garden City or Dodge City, Kansas area. This position will require travel.

SUMMARY

Primarily responsible for anticipating, organizing, communicating, and ensuring compliance for SSRM implementations within a market. Leads the market management of conversions with a focus on capturing total value of the agreement for facilities within their scope. This position leverages influence and expertise to coordinate this work across an expansive network of stakeholders to achieve market and system level savings targets. Additionally, this position is the primary point of contact for clinical engagement, enforcement of vendor management policies, new product requests, and coordination of trials.

ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Works collaboratively with clinical and non-clinical stakeholders on local and system-wide implementations to ensure the achievement of hospital and CommonSpirit goals.

Functions as a liaison between end-users of contracted supplies and services, clinical and non-clinical team members, and SSRM colleagues.

Leads cost reduction programs and assists with developing strategies across the critical supply areas that impact our end-users.

Anticipates the impact of implementations to their market and collaborates/communicates with clinicians, physicians, and other hospital departments as needed to ensure success of conversions.

Assists with quality aspects, analytics, and education to ensure seamless conversions of products and services.

Communicates savings initiatives to clinical and non-clinical end-users — including participation in local stakeholder meetings.

Oversees the contract exception process, supports clinical trials, and manages the new product request process within the market.

Monitors vendor credentialing systems for compliance, and restricts vendor access when necessary.

Demonstrates excellent communication skills (both verbally and written), and able to articulate opportunities and challenges involved with implementations.

Provides insights for Vendor Management and Quarterly Business Reviews concerning vendor credentialing, support, unauthorized access, etc.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree and minimum of 3 years leadership experience OR minimum of 5 years leadership experience in the discipline OR Master's Degree and no leadership experience

Minimum of three (3) years' experience in Supply Chain within a health care facility system or other relevant experience

Established leadership skills

Knowledge of coaching and mentoring best practices

Knowledge of Google Suite, and Microsoft Word, Project, Access, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint

Capable of generating and analyzing large datasets

Strong written and oral communications skills

Ability to influence and motivate others in order to achieve targets within a determined time period

Ability to prepare quick pointed summaries for executives and stakeholders Ability to deal with conflict and difficult people

Team management and/or project management preferred.

Change Management and Leadership (LEAD) experience required within first year. Incumbents in this job will be grandfathered into educational requirements.

Clinical hospital experience preferred.

Progressive experience in project management preferred.

Pay Range

$40.66 - $58.96 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.