RN - Category Manager - Clinical Category Management/ Procurement

University of Mississippi Medical Center; United States; Presencial; USD 110.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

University of Mississippi Medical Center seeks an RN Category Manager for Clinical Category Management/Procurement. This role leads stakeholders and value analysis teams in identifying strategic sourcing decisions to reduce costs, increase revenue, and improve patient outcomes.

Candidate must have RN licensure and a nursing degree with healthcare management experience. The position emphasizes collaboration with clinicians, procurement, and contracts teams to standardize processes and optimize

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing required.
• Five (5) years clinical, healthcare management, or clinical education experience required.
• Valid RN license required.

Responsabilidades

• Provide supply chain leadership and act as liaison between clinicians and supply chain department.
• Assist departments in managing commodity and contract services expenses.
• Identify and communicate expense variances; develop strategic sourcing to reduce cost and increase revenue.
• Assist in development, financial analysis, and processing of department contracts for commodities and services.
• Provide leadership to value analysis teams.
• Facilitate data collection, market research and spend analytics for strategic sourcing.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Organizational

Facilitative

Communication

Negotiation

Analytical

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Nursing

Herramientas

Microsoft Office

Descripción del empleo

Job Title

RN - Category Manager - Clinical Category Management/ Procurement

Job Summary

Responsible for actively leading and supporting the UMMC department stakeholders, business managers, and value analysis teams in identifying and executing clinical strategic sourcing decisions designed to reduce operational expense, increase revenue, and improve patient outcomes. Contributes to quality, clinical and financial initiatives by actively seeking and facilitating opportunities for standardization, decreased operational expense and increased revenue with contracting, purchasing, and value analysis.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Nursing with five (5) years clinical, healthcare management, or clinical education experience.

Certifications, Licenses or Registration required

valid RN license

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Leadership, organizational, facilitative, communication, negotiation, and analytical skills.

Additional Knowledge and Preferred Skills

• A strong knowledge of medical supplies and processes with expertise in physician relations.
• Must have ability to lead strategies to address physician product preferences and utilization variation.
• Knowledge of Microsoft office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing supply chain leadership and support and serves as a supply chain liaison between clinicians and the supply chain department.
• Actively assists departments in the management of commodity and contract services expenses.
• Identifies and communicates expense variances and assists in the development of strategic sourcing initiatives to reduce cost, increase revenue, and improve patient outcomes.
• Assists UMMC departments in the development, financial analysis, and processing of department contracts for commodities and contract services.
• Provides active leadership and support to specific value analysis teams.
• Facilitates utilization of data collection, market research, and spend analytics as best practice for UMMC strategic sourcing process.
• Works with GPO and suppliers to develop strategic opportunities and partnerships to support established financial targets.
• Works with the value analysis teams and the contracts department in the negotiation of contracts, development of RFP, and support of competitive bids.
• Works with the purchasing department to assure that all strategic initiatives are implemented and monitored to assure the expected value is realized.
• Provides effective communication to physician chairs, senior leadership, strategic sourcing support members, value analysis teams, end-users, and other stakeholders to establish collaborative communication related to strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Serves as a professional and knowledgeable representative of the organization to outside suppliers and partners.
• Actively engages in professional development opportunities to remain current and knowledgeable with healthcare business trends and best practices related to healthcare supplies and services.

The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires occasional travelling to offsite locations, frequent activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, and frequent walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Employment Details

Time Type: Full-time
FLSA Designation/Job Exempt: Yes
Pay Class: Salary
FTE %: 100
Work Shift: Benefits Eligibility: Grant Funded
Job Category: Nursing
Organization: SC-Clinical Category Management/ Procurement

Company Culture and Commitment

The University of Mississippi Medical Center is committed to educating the next generation of health professionals, discovering new cures and treatments and providing the highest quality health care. We foster environments that support respect, compassion and belonging for all faculty, staff and students as well as patients and visitors. Our employment, academic, research and clinical care practices reflect these commitments.

Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination Statement

UMMC is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), disability, age, sex (as that term is defined in applicable laws such as 45 CFR § 92.101(a)(2) and binding court decisions), religion, genetic information, veteran's status and any other status protected by applicable law. UMMC also prohibits retaliation against those who report discrimination or harassment and against those who participate in the Medical Center's investigation and handling of such reports. Further, UMMC complies with all applicable statutes, regulations and executive orders regarding sex discrimination, sexual harassment, domestic and dating violence, sexual assault and stalking, including but not limited to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and its implementing regulations which prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity UMMC operates including in admission and employment, the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistic Act ("Clery Act") and the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act ("SaVE Act"). UMMC's commitment to nondiscrimination applies to all of its programs, services, opportunities and activities, including but not limited to all employment, academic, research and clinical care practices and extends to all students, applicants for admission, employees, applicants for employment, affiliates, subcontractors, on-site contractual staff, third party or community members, visitors to any of our campuses and others participating in UMMC programs or receiving UMMC services. With respect to employment in particular, this commitment applies to all employment decisions including but not limited to recruitment, employment, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, disciplinary actions and termination. UMMC maintains an affirmative action program in accordance with applicable laws. Consistent with these laws, UMMC takes affirmative action to recruit, employ, advance and prevent discrimination against qualified individuals.

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