Director, Indirect Spend Data & Analytics

Vizient; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Benefits plan

Job summary

Vizient is seeking a Senior Director to lead data management, analytics, reporting, and automation for Indirect Spend. You will own data strategy, governance, and scalable analytics across teams, advancing AI-enabled insights for client engagements.

The role requires building and guiding data teams, improving data quality, and partnering with technology to scale analytics capabilities for healthcare members.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a related field.
• Experience leading data and analytics capabilities across multiple teams, business functions, or service offerings.
• Experience with database management, data structures, data modeling, data integration, data governance, and data quality management.
• Experience designing automated analytics, reporting, dashboards, or decision-support tools.
• Experience applying AI/ML to business processes.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and executes the data and analytics strategy for the Indirect Spend business.
• Owns the data lifecycle, including data acquisition, integration, structure, storage, transformation, categorization, normalization, validation, analysis, and delivery.
• Provides strategic oversight of databases, data models, data structures, source-system relationships, data definitions, and analytical datasets.
• Establishes and enforces standards for data governance, quality, ownership, documentation, lineage, completeness, accuracy, and issue resolution.
• Oversees spend categorization, supplier normalization, benchmarking methodologies, data hierarchies, and other foundational processes.
• Develops and standardizes analytical methodologies, recurring reports, dashboards, performance measures, and decision-support tools.

Skills

Data governance

Data modeling

SQL

AI / machine learning

Team leadership

Strategic analytics

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data analytics, computer science, information systems, business, statistics, engineering, healthcare administration, or a related field

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Vizient is seeking a Senior Director to lead data management, analytics, reporting, and automation for Indirect Spend. You will own data strategy, governance, and scalable analytics across teams, advancing AI-enabled insights for client engagements.

The role requires building and guiding data teams, improving data quality, and partnering with technology to scale analytics capabilities for healthcare members.