Director of Procurement and Supply Chain

CLS Health; Houston (TX); Vor Ort; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

CLS Health in Houston is seeking a Director of Procurement to lead centralized sourcing across all locations. The role partners with Legal, Finance, Compliance and IT to negotiate pricing, terms, and multiyear agreements while maintaining strong internal controls.

You will establish policies, governance, and standard processes for purchasing, inventory coordination, and cost management, ensuring patient safety and clinical quality are preserved while achieving budget targets.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field.
• Strong financial-analysis skills, including pricing, budgeting, and total-cost-of-ownership evaluation.
• Experience negotiating significant vendor contracts and multiyear purchasing agreements.

Aufgaben

• Develop and implement a centralized procurement and supply-chain strategy.
• Establish procurement policies, thresholds, workflows and delegation standards.
• Lead RFPs, vendor evaluations and competitive bidding processes.
• Negotiate pricing, rebates, service levels, and terms.
• Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Compliance, IT and leaders before contracts.
• Monitor vendor performance and address issues.
• Collaborate with Finance on budgets and procurement forecasts.
• Support annual budgeting and capital-planning processes.

Kenntnisse

Vendor negotiation

Leadership

Communication

Financial analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in supply-chain management, business administration, finance, healthcare administration, operations

Tools

ERP systems (e.g., Oracle/ SAP)

Purchasing software

Contract management systems

Jobbeschreibung

CLS Health is a growing healthcare system in Houston, Texas that is taking a different approach to healthcare. We are a physician-led healthcare group that focuses on providing patients with holistic, multispecialty care. We're a dynamic team on a mission to provide better healthcare options for Houstonians!

Position Summary

The Director of Procurement is responsible for developing and leading the centralized procurement function for CLS Health. This position will oversee vendor selection, purchasing, contract negotiations, sourcing, supply standardization, inventory coordination, and procurement-related cost management across all CLS Health locations and departments.

The Director will establish transparent and consistent purchasing procedures that support operational efficiency, clinical quality, financial discipline, and regulatory compliance. The position will also ensure that major purchasing decisions and long-term contractual commitments receive appropriate multidisciplinary review and executive approval.

The Director will not control invoice payment or accounting functions. Procurement, receiving, invoice approval, and payment responsibilities must remain appropriately separated to maintain strong internal controls.

Procurement Strategy and Governance

• Develop and implement a centralized procurement and supply-chain strategy for CLS Health.
• Establish procurement policies, approval thresholds, purchasing workflows, and delegation-of-authority standards.
• Create a formal process for reviewing major purchases, capital expenditures, and multiyear vendor agreements.
• Ensure competitive bidding or documented price comparisons when appropriate.
• Maintain a centralized repository of vendor agreements, pricing schedules, renewal dates, and purchasing commitments.
• Develop emergency-purchasing procedures for urgent clinical and operational needs.

Vendor Selection and Contract Negotiation

• Lead requests for proposals, requests for quotations, vendor evaluations, and competitive bidding processes.
• Negotiate pricing, rebates, service levels, payment terms, warranties, termination rights, renewal provisions, and volume commitments.
• Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Compliance, Information Technology, and operational leaders before contracts are executed.
• Conduct vendor due diligence, including financial stability, references, insurance coverage, licensing, cybersecurity, exclusion screening, and conflict-of-interest disclosures.
• Monitor vendor performance and address service deficiencies, supply interruptions, pricing discrepancies, and contractual noncompliance.
• Reduce unnecessary vendor duplication and consolidate purchasing when doing so improves price, service, or operational consistency.

Supply Chain and Inventory Management

• Develop organization-wide standards for purchasing and managing medications, medical supplies, office supplies, equipment, furniture, technology, and contracted services.
• Collaborate with clinical and operational leaders to standardize products while protecting patient safety and clinical decision-making.
• Coordinate with the CLS inventory-management team to improve visibility into quantities, locations, expiration dates, utilization, shortages, and excess inventory.
• Establish minimum and maximum inventory levels for commonly used products.
• Reduce expired, obsolete, duplicated, and excess inventory.
• Develop contingency plans for shortages, back orders, recalls, and supply-chain disruptions.
• Ensure that receiving documentation is accurately matched with purchase orders and vendor invoices.
• Partner with Finance to establish purchasing budgets, cost-reduction targets, and procurement forecasts.
• Analyze organizational spending by vendor, location, department, item category, and contract.
• Identify savings opportunities through price negotiation, product standardization, vendor consolidation, utilization management, and group purchasing arrangements.
• Validate contract pricing, rebates, credits, administrative fees, and volume discounts.
• Prepare business cases and total-cost-of-ownership analyses for significant purchasing decisions.
• Report realized savings separately from projected or negotiated savings.
• Support annual budgeting and capital-planning processes.

Compliance and Internal Controls

• Maintain appropriate separation among vendor selection, purchase authorization, receipt confirmation, invoice processing, and payment.
• Ensure procurement activities comply with CLS policies and applicable healthcare fraud-and-abuse, conflict-of-interest, privacy, cybersecurity, and vendor-screening requirements.
• Prevent departments from entering unauthorized agreements or making purchases outside established approval processes.
• Monitor purchasing-card use and exception purchases in coordination with Finance.
• Support internal and external audits by maintaining complete procurement documentation.
• Escalate suspected conflicts of interest, kickbacks, inappropriate vendor relationships, or procurement irregularities to Compliance and executive leadership.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Build and supervise the procurement team as organizational needs require.
• Train department managers and authorized purchasers on procurement policies and systems.
• Establish productive relationships with physicians, clinical leaders, administrators, vendors, and support departments.
• Balance cost reduction with clinical quality, operational reliability, employee productivity, and patient experience.
• Lead procurement-related committees and present recommendations to senior leadership.
• Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, service, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply-chain management, business administration, finance, healthcare administration, operations, or a related field.
• At least five years of progressive procurement, purchasing, supply-chain, or strategic-sourcing experience.
• At least three years of management or departmental leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience negotiating significant vendor contracts and multiyear purchasing agreements.
• Experience developing procurement policies, approval matrices, purchasing controls, and vendor-management processes.
• Strong financial-analysis skills, including pricing analysis, budgeting, utilization analysis, and total-cost-of-ownership evaluation.
• Experience with purchasing, inventory, enterprise-resource-planning, or contract-management systems.
• Strong written, verbal, negotiation, organizational, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated integrity and the ability to manage confidential and commercially sensitive information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business administration, healthcare administration, supply-chain management, or a related field.
• Procurement or supply-chain experience within a large medical group, hospital, health system, ambulatory network, pharmacy, laboratory, or other healthcare organization.
• Experience purchasing medications, medical supplies, diagnostic equipment, information technology, facility services, and professional services.
• Experience working with group purchasing organizations and healthcare distributors.
• Knowledge of healthcare contracting, vendor compliance, product recalls, credentialing, cybersecurity review, and fraud-and-abuse considerations.
• Experience supporting a rapidly growing, multisite organization.
• Professional certification such as:
• Certified Professional in Supply Management
• Certified Purchasing Manager
• Certified Supply Chain Professional
• Certified Materials and Resource Professional
• Certified Professional in Supply Management–Supplier Diversity