Senior Director, Indirect Spend Data & Analytics

Vizient; Missouri; On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient, a leader in healthcare data and analytics, seeks a Senior Director to drive data management, analytics, reporting, and automation for the Indirect Spend Management business. You will own the strategy for data acquisition, structuring, governance, and translating data into actionable insights for client engagements.

You will lead data and analytics teams, set governance and quality standards, and advance automation and AI to improve data workflows and decision support across Vizient’s

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field as listed.
• Experience leading data and analytics capabilities across multiple teams.
• Expertise in databases, data modeling, governance, and data quality.
• Experience designing automated analytics, dashboards, or decision-support tools.
• Practical AI/ML or automation experience in business processes.
• Experience scaling data/analytics teams.
• Strong SQL, BI, data visualization, and workflow design; Power BI preferred.
• Ability to translate business needs into analytics requirements.
• Healthcare/healthcare tech, supply chain, procurement, or consulting background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Sets data and analytics strategy for the Indirect Spend business.
• Owns the data lifecycle, including acquisition, integration, storage, and transformation.
• Oversees data models, structures, relationships, definitions, and datasets.
• Enforces data governance, quality, ownership, lineage, and issue resolution.
• Oversees spend categorization, supplier normalization, benchmarking and hierarchies.
• Develops standardized analytics, reports, dashboards, and KPIs.
• Determines automation opportunities and AI enhancements for processes.
• Applies AI, ML, generative AI, and intelligent automation to improve outcomes.
• Establishes scalable operating model for analytics requests and reporting.
• Partner with leaders to ensure outputs are actionable for client engagements.
• Develops reusable data assets and analytical frameworks to improve delivery.

Skills

Bachelor’s degree in data analytics, |

Experience leading data & analytics |

Expertise in database management &data

Automated analytics & dashboards

AI/ML & intelligent automation

Team leadership & scaling

SQL & BI tooling (Power BI preferred)

Business translation of analytics

Healthcare / healthcare tech domain

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data analytics, computer science, information systems, business, statistics, engineering, healthcare administration, or a related field

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Vizient, a leader in healthcare data and analytics, seeks a Senior Director to drive data management, analytics, reporting, and automation for the Indirect Spend Management business. You will own the strategy for data acquisition, structuring, governance, and translating data into actionable insights for client engagements.

You will lead data and analytics teams, set governance and quality standards, and advance automation and AI to improve data workflows and decision support across Vizient’s