AVP, Demand Planning & Inventory Strategy

Providence; Renton (WA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Providence is seeking an AVP Demand Planning, Par Health, Inventory Control to design, operate, and optimize an enterprise-wide supply chain control tower for healthcare. You will lead real-time visibility, predictive analytics, and orchestrated responses across suppliers, distributors, providers, and internal teams.

You will champion data-driven forecasting, inventory strategies, and disruption-resilience while partnering with IT, finance, and clinicians to improve cost, quality, and

Qualifications

• Ten or more years in supply chain operations leadership.
• Experience designing or leading a Control Tower or real-time ops center.
• Experience in healthcare provider, distributor, manufacturer, or GPO settings.
• Familiarity with AI/ML and digital twin technologies.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with IT, finance, and clinicians.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the long-term vision for a digital, analytics-driven Control Tower that improves transparency, responsiveness, and decision-making across the healthcare supply chain.
• Define the operating model, governance, service lines, and performance metrics for the Control Tower.
• Serve as an enterprise authority on supply chain risk, resilience, and end-to-end visibility strategies.
• Lead real-time monitoring of supply, demand, inventory, logistics, and disruptions across the supplier–provider ecosystem.
• Oversee triage, escalation, and mitigation processes for shortages, delays, recalls, emergent events, and market volatility.
• Ensure proactive alerts, scenario planning, and predictive risk modeling are integrated into decision workflows.
• Ensure adequate inventory levels are maintained through innovative disruption-resolution strategies, advanced transaction and ordering processes, progressive approaches to minimizing obsolescence and expiration, and long-term maintenance of complex reorder levels to support product rotation and inventory accuracy.
• Serve as an expert internal consultant and external spokesperson for enterprise inventory control initiatives.
• Maintain and continuously improve supply chain operations.
• Ensure purchasing strategies are consistent with overall sourcing strategies.
• Partner with IT, data engineering, product, and analytics teams to design and enhance platforms supporting the Control Tower.
• Champion advanced analytics, AI/ML, predictive modeling, and digitalTwin capabilities to anticipate supply chain risk.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Analytics

Data-driven decision making

Healthcare supply chain expertise

Executive communication

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business/Engineering/Analytics

Master’s Degree (preferred)

Job description

Providence is seeking an AVP Demand Planning, Par Health, Inventory Control to design, operate, and optimize an enterprise-wide supply chain control tower for healthcare. You will lead real-time visibility, predictive analytics, and orchestrated responses across suppliers, distributors, providers, and internal teams.

You will champion data-driven forecasting, inventory strategies, and disruption-resilience while partnering with IT, finance, and clinicians to improve cost, quality, and