AVP Supply Chain Operations and Logistics - Renton, WA

Providence St. Joseph Health; Renton (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Providence is seeking an AVP of Supply Chain Operations and Logistics to lead the end-to-end flow of supplies from demand to delivery, supporting efficient patient care and caregiver safety. This executive role will drive performance across dock-to-stock, cycle times, inventory accuracy, and cross-functional collaboration within Providence.

The leader will act as a change agent, applying Lean principles and standard work to eliminate waste, develop high-capacity leaders, and build a

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale healthcare logistics operations.
• Strong collaboration with clinical and non-clinical teams.
• Executive-level leadership and change management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement operational and logistic strategies to align metrics with KPIs.
• Directly accountable for all Logistics Operations in assigned regions, spanning inbound delivery to point of consumption, including inter-facility activities.

Job description

Description

This AVP Supply Chain Operations and Logistics 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.

The Role

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)