AVP Supply Chain Operations and Logistics - CA

Providence; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

You will drive Lean initiatives, standard work, and performance dashboards, partnering with Medline, central planning, sourcing, P2P, and clinical teams to improve caregiver experience and operational excellence.

This role requires strategic leadership, change management, and the ability to translate data into improvements while safeguarding caregiver safety and engagement.

Responsibilities

Job description

Calling All Esteemed Leaders!

Are you a supply chain executive who excels in logistics operations, distribution management, continuous improvement, and caregiver-focused service delivery? Do you thrive in environments where operational excellence, Lean principles, workforce development, and strategic leadership come together to support high-quality patient care? If so, we invite you to explore this leadership opportunity with Providence.

The Role

This position is fundamentally responsible for the physical flow of supplies from end-to-end, demand-to-deliver (entire fulfillment cycle, receiving, delivery, re-order, consumption management, product management) in such a way that enables efficient (lowest clinical labor cost) and effective (high quality, high reliability) patient care. This position will be held accountable to an array of critical performance measures that include dock to stock cycle time, inventory demand capture, inventory accuracy, receipt cycle time and accuracy, work in process (WIP) queue management, staff productivity, caregiver engagement and retention, storage capacity management, stock out reporting/follow up, surplus reporting/follow up, intercompany transfer cycle time, cycle count program development, standardization and effectiveness, physical operating footprint standardization/quality, caregiver engagement and budget performance.

This is an executive leadership role that has a key impact on caregiver culture. It is essential this leader continuously share a vision that aligns to Providence Mission and Values while leading a best-in-class supply chain culture. Within Providence's culture, caregiver safety and well-being is a high priority that requires systems and processes to support desired outcomes. This position will advocate for standardized operations adhering to agreed upon standard work, leader standard work, and the operating playbooks.

This position will be a change agent, leading, fostering and empowering change through Lean Management principles and a culture of investing in and developing high-capacity leaders within healthcare. This position will focus on delivering value by creating a culture of seeing and eliminating waste in material flow and business processes. This leader will invest in caregivers by developing, supporting, and delivering training at all levels.

Additional expectations of this role are as follows: Role will serve as the key Supply Chain operations expert and regional/local point of connection (as the "Face of REH") to clinical and non-clinical teams. This role will act as the end customers "advocate" and "champion" for our clinical teams by working collaboratively, but aggressively, with our Enterprise Distribution Partner (Medline), Central Planning, CRI, Sourcing, P2P, and other REH teams to solve performance issues that negatively impact end customer teams. From an end customer perspective, this effectively means that this position is jointly responsible for the "caregiver experience" at point of consumption. This is intended to create joint accountability between REH functional groups and single point accountability from the customers perspective.

This leader should be technically capable and able to understand and use the systems to manage their goals. This entails using available reporting and data, understanding system configurations and settings, and optimizing system enabled workflows.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and implement operational and logistic strategies. Align metrics to key performance indicators to improve performance and optimize sources.
• Directly accountable for all Logistics Operations in assigned regions that spans inbound delivery and receiving operations to point of consumption to include inter Providence facility activities and support in their respective geographical areas, with indirect accountability to regional/Division and local leadership teams. Accountable for end-to-end logistical process to include the management of dock to stock cycle time, inventory demand capture, inventory accuracy, receipt accuracy, work in process (WIP) queue management, staff productivity, storage capacity management, stock out reporting, surplus/obsolescence management, intercompany transfer cycle time, cycle count program development and effectiveness, and physical operating footprint standardization/quality across REH areas of responsibility.
• Logistics operations standardization in all aspects of operation. Process standardization and integrity, labor efficiency, safety and overall operations excellence oriented towards the efficient and effective support of clinical care is essential.
• Creates and executes site plans to ensure alignment to continuous improvement strategies.
• Responsible for enabling clinical caregivers (Nursing/Physicians) to provide highly reliable and efficient care to our patients. Every effort must be made to eliminate supply chain related activities from clinical staff with the goal improving nursing capacity and caregiver satisfaction. Position will maintain plans to ensure supply management for all materials routinely stocked and consumed is managed by Supply Chain Best Practices.
• Accountable to create and leverage data for the performance of staff productivity, service reliability, inventory performance, budget compliance and other performance measures required to support the entirety of operations through the creation of a high-quality Operations Performance Dashboard that will be standardized across the Supply Chain Operations organization.
• Collaborate and liaise with the strategic distribution vendor (Medline) to manage and leverage distribution operations in concert with our Supplier Performance Management leadership team and ROB.
• Establish a culture of safety, innovation, continuous performance improvement, and high levels of caregiver engagement and retention to achieve specific improvement goals as defined during annual planning and continuously throughout the year. Will also support labor relations and ongoing grievance, union organizing, union activity and bargaining obligations. This position will create and maintain tools to identify and reduce variation from approved supply chain safety standards.
• Develop and institute a program of continuous training and development of REH operations oriented to improve process performance while improving caregiver working conditions and overall engagement/retention. The position will develop a culture of a "Learning Organization" that leverages employee insights across all geographies regions and invests in caregiver growth. Leadership is accountable to ensure safe systems and a culture of safety is in place to create an injury free work environment,