Healthcare Supply Chain Assessment & Transformation Director

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

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a Sr Supply Chain Assessment Director to lead enterprise-wide assessments in healthcare, translating data into actionable recommendations and strategic roadmaps.

You will drive executive engagement, manage multi-site engagements, and advance methodologies, benchmarking, and AI-enabled analytics to realize financial and operational outcomes. Travel up to 60-70% is expected to meet clients; strong communication and leadership are essential to influence senior stakeholders

Qualifications

• Relevant degree in healthcare administration, supply chain, or healthcare operations management.
• 7+ years in healthcare supply chain, operations, consulting, or performance improvement.
• Experience leading assessments or value realization initiatives.
• Deep expertise in healthcare supply chain leading practices, operating models, and AI fluency.
• Ability to travel 60-70%.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise and strategic guidance for complex assessments involving enterprise operating models, governance, organizational effectiveness, and transformational improvement opportunities.
• Lead execution of enterprise assessment frameworks, including stakeholder interviews, operational observations, data collection, and analysis, ensuring alignment with established standards, methodologies, and tools.
• Validate financial, operational, and clinical outcomes through disciplined analytics, benchmarking, and performance evaluation against leading practices.
• Identify performance gaps and develop actionable recommendations, improvement strategies, and implementation priorities in partnership with client and internal stakeholders.
• Quantify improvement opportunities and estimate potential financial and operational impact, including KPIs, benchmarks, and savings validation.
• Validate assessment findings through data analysis, benchmarking, and stakeholder engagement that translate assessment findings into clear, actionable insights that drive measurable outcomes.
• Evaluate enterprise-wide performance trends and maturity gaps to identify transformational opportunities and long-term strategic priorities.
• Develop business cases and quantify improvement opportunities, assess progress toward desired financial and operational outcomes, and identify risks, barriers, and performance variances with recommended mitigation strategies.
• May serve as the primary point of contact for assigned assessment-related activities with client stakeholders.
• Facilitate executive-level discussions and strategic planning sessions with health system leadership to align assessment findings, priorities, and transformation roadmaps.
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews and working sessions to validate findings, build alignment, and support recommendation development.
• Partner with sourcing, P2P, analytics, clinical integration, and operations teams to align assessment insights with execution strategies.
• Present assessment findings and recommendations to client and internal leadership teams, driving alignment across complex, multi-site environments.
• Ensure assessment outputs directly inform contracting, non-labor cost management, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise standards, operating procedures, and quality controls.
• Drive consistency, scalability, and speed of assessment delivery across engagements.
• Provide feedback to refine tools, templates, and methodologies based on execution insights.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of assessment methodologies, benchmarks, tools, and intellectual property to enhance consistency, scalability, and client value.
• Utilize AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency in assessment execution, data analysis, and deliverable development while critically evaluating outputs and ensuring alignment with professional, operational, and client standards.

Skills

Healthcare supply chain

Stakeholder engagement

AI fluency

Data analytics

Executive communication

Education

Relevant degree in healthcare administration, supply chain, or healthcare operations management

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a Sr Supply Chain Assessment Director to lead enterprise-wide assessments in healthcare, translating data into actionable recommendations and strategic roadmaps.

You will drive executive engagement, manage multi-site engagements, and advance methodologies, benchmarking, and AI-enabled analytics to realize financial and operational outcomes. Travel up to 60-70% is expected to meet clients; strong communication and leadership are essential to influence senior stakeholders