Director, Foodservice Analytics & Insights

Vizient, Inc; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits plan

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a food analytics leader to guide a team that turns food spend and market data into actionable insights for sales and sourcing teams.

You will set analytical direction, oversee tool development, and ensure high-quality, timely deliverables across client engagements. The role emphasizes collaboration with internal stakeholders, recruiting and developing team members, and leveraging AI-enabled solutions while traveling up to 10%.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience in analytics leadership.
• Experience leading food analytics or BI teams.
• Ability to translate data into strategic insights.
• Experience coaching and developing employees.
• Willingness to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Establish direction for methodologies, reporting standards, quality, and deliverables.
• Lead relationships with sales, sourcing, technology, and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate with tech teams to define requirements and develop analytics tools.
• Translate complex data into clear insights and executive-ready materials.
• Oversee market basket analyses for Vizient clients.
• Support contract portfolio maintenance and enhancement through analytics.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop team members while ensuring accountability.
• Maintain QA processes, documentation, and review practices for analytics.
• Identify opportunities to scale, automate, and improve reporting.
• Use AI-enabled tools responsibly to boost productivity.

Skills

Team leadership

Analytical skills

Communication

AI fluency

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

BI tools

AI tools

Job description

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Summary: In this role, you will lead a food analytics team that supports the Vizient sales organization as well as the food contracting/sourcing team. You will set direction for analytical methodologies, quality standards, reporting, automation, and technology-enabled solutions that turn food spend and market data into actionable insights. Your team will partner with Vizient sales teams to deliver food market basket analyses for clients and provide analytic support to the food sourcing team to inform contract portfolio maintenance and enhancement. You will also serve as a subject matter expert in the development of new analytics tools, build strong relationships with internal clients and stakeholders, and ensure service levels and deliverable quality meet expectations.

Responsibilities

• Establish direction for food analytics methodologies, reporting standards, quality expectations, operating practices, and decision-support deliverables.
• Build and maintain rapport with sales leaders, sourcing partners, technology teams, and other stakeholders to align priorities, manage expectations, and ensure service levels meet expectations.
• Collaborate with technology and development teams to define business requirements, evaluate analytical approaches, and develop new analytics tools; serve as a food analytics subject matter expert throughout design and development discussions.
• Translate complex food spend and market data into clear insights, recommendations, and executive- and client-ready materials that support decisions and measurable value.
• Work with the Manager to oversee completion of food market basket requests for Vizient acute and non-acute clients, ensuring analyses are accurate, timely, actionable, and aligned to sales and client needs.
• Partner with the Vizient food sourcing team to provide analytics that inform contract portfolio maintenance, enhancement, sourcing priorities, and member value opportunities.
• Assist the Manager with recruiting, onboarding, training, and developing team members while reinforcing accountability, business acumen, analytical capability, and effective communication.
• Maintain and improve quality assurance processes, documentation, and review practices to ensure accurate, consistent, and reliable analytics.
• Identify opportunities to improve scalability, automation, reporting, and team effectiveness across food analytics and related indirect spend support.
• Use approved AI-enabled tools to improve analysis, documentation, communication, and team productivity while reinforcing responsible use and output validation.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred in Business, Nutrition, Dietetics, or related field. Registered Dietician a plus.
• 7 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Experience in team management and leadership, food service, analytics, business intelligence, or related functions within a complex organization.
• Strong analytical, financial, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to translate data into strategy, value, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience coaching and developing employees, setting expectations, managing performance, and supporting team effectiveness through change.
• Ability to influence internal stakeholders, clients, suppliers, and executive-level audiences through clear communication and sound judgment.
• AI Fluency – Experienced: Demonstrates broad understanding of AI's business impact and effectively leads teams in adopting responsible AI-enabled ways of working.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring three days per week in the office.
• Willingness to travel. Estimated travel is less than 10%.

Estimated Hiring Range: At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $102,400.00 to $179,000.00. This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan!

Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

Working at Vizient means shaping the future of healthcare, every day. Alongside our clients, we're building a healthier, more human healthcare system. We connect people, data, and solutions to enable healthcare organizations to improve financial sustainability, enhance system performance, and deliver better care.

Headquartered in Irving, Texas, with 11 offices across the United States, Vizient has more than 5,000 employees who bring deep expertise and a shared commitment to transforming healthcare. Together, we're solving some of the industry's most complex challenges while creating opportunities to learn, grow, and drive lasting change for healthcare organizations and the communities they serve.

Through our enterprise of companies, we deliver meaningful impact across the continuum of care: Apexus - The exclusive contractor for 340B Drug Pricing Program, managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration. aptitude - The industry's first online direct contracting market, supporting self-contracting activity between hospitals and suppliers. Kaufman Hall - Leading healthcare advisory services to support our clients in achieving financial, clinical, and operational excellence. Provista - Proven supply chain partner specializing in extended, diagnostic, and preventive care facilities, including surgery centers, home health, and senior living.