Senior Director, Indirect Spend Analytics & Data Strategy

Vizient, Inc.

Cape Girardeau (MO)

On-site

USD 135,000 - 237,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director to lead data management, analytics, reporting, and automation for the Indirect Spend Management business.

You will own the strategy for data acquisition, structuring, governance, normalization, analysis, and insight delivery to support consulting and healthcare members. You will lead data and analytics teams, establish governance standards, advance automation and AI, and partner with technology teams to scale analytic capabilities across the

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a data-related field and relevant leadership experience.
Experience leading data and analytics capabilities across multiple teams or functions.
Expertise in database management, data structures, data modeling, data integration, data governance, and data quality management.
Experience designing automated analytics, reporting, dashboards, or decision-support tools.
Practical experience applying AI, ML, or intelligent automation to business processes.
Experience managing and scaling teams of data/analytics professionals.
Strong SQL, BI platforms, data visualization, and analytical workflow design; Power BI preferred.
Ability to translate business needs into data and analytics requirements.
Experience in healthcare, healthcare technology, supply chain, procurement, finance, or consulting preferred.

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.
Determines which processes should be automated, standardized, enhanced with artificial intelligence, or maintained as human-led activities.
Evaluates and applies AI, machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent automation to improve data management, reporting, opportunity identification, insight generation, and workflow efficiency.
Establishes a scalable operating model for managing analytical requests, recurring reporting, production support, enhancements, and strategic initiatives.
Partners with consulting leaders to ensure that data and analytical outputs are accurate, relevant, actionable, and easy to apply in client engagements.
Develops reusable data assets, analytical frameworks, methodologies, tools, and intellectual capital that improve consulting delivery.
Partners with technology and product teams, as appropriate, to communicate business needs and support effective data and analytics capabilities.
Supports business development, proposals, member presentations, and marketing activities by demonstrating the value of Vizient's data and analytics capabilities.