Senior Director, Indirect Spend Analytics & Data Strategy

Vizient; Centennial (CO); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient is seeking a Senior Director of Data Management & Analytics to lead data strategy, governance, and analytics capabilities for the Indirect Spend Management business. You will own data lifecycle, shape analytical frameworks, and drive AI-enabled insights across consulting engagements.

You will lead distributed teams, establish standards, and collaborate with technology to deliver scalable, actionable data products for healthcare members.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data analytics, computer science, information systems, business, statistics, engineering, healthcare administration, or related field.
• Experience leading data and analytics capabilities across multiple teams, business functions, or service offerings.
• Expertise in database management, data structures, data modeling, data integration, data governance, and data quality management.
• Experience designing and implementing automated analytics, reporting, dashboards, or decision-support tools.
• Practical experience applying AI, machine learning, generative AI, or intelligent automation to business processes.
• Experience managing, developing, and scaling teams of data, analytics, or technology professionals.
• Strong understanding of SQL, business intelligence platforms, data visualization, and analytical workflow design; Power BI experience preferred.
• Experience in healthcare, health systems, healthcare technology, supply chain, procurement, finance, benchmarking, 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 supporting meaningful analysis.
• 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.

Skills

SQL

Data visualization

Workflow design

Team leadership

AI / automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in data analytics / related field

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Vizient is seeking a Senior Director of Data Management & Analytics to lead data strategy, governance, and analytics capabilities for the Indirect Spend Management business. You will own data lifecycle, shape analytical frameworks, and drive AI-enabled insights across consulting engagements.

You will lead distributed teams, establish standards, and collaborate with technology to deliver scalable, actionable data products for healthcare members.