Strategic Healthcare Sourcing & Programs Director

Vizient; United States; Remote; USD 102,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient is seeking a strategic Sourcing Leader to manage sourcing and implementation for the NPC aggregation group. You will partner with Yale New Haven, NPC staff, and Vizient stakeholders to drive best-in-class value, terms, and contracting outcomes.

You will lead negotiations with key suppliers, develop pipeline opportunities, and mentor the sourcing team while coordinating cross-functional efforts across multiple departments. This role involves travel and collaboration with senior management.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred. Advanced degree is a plus.
• 7 or more years of relevant experience in health care, contracting, negotiating, or sales.
• Experience in management, leading teams, or consulting preferred.
• Strong presentation skills and experience presenting to senior management.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite of Products.
• Willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Establish strong relationships with Yale New Haven/NPC sourcing teams through ongoing connections and interactions focused on common goals.
• Partner with teams to develop ongoing pipeline and opportunities for growth.
• Lead efforts in working with teams to ensure NPC member relationship support.
• Facilitate strategic and operational activity as it relates to sourcing, negotiations, and implementation, such as member conversion potential and ensure the NPC is receiving best-in-class value, terms, and conditions.
• Establish and maintain internal relationships with cross-functional teams, ensuring collaboration to meet external stakeholder needs.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of request for proposal (RFP) process and contractual terms to provide guidance through the contracting process.
• Lead and facilitate negotiations with key suppliers to drive value in RFP process.
• Collaborate with internal and external analyst to develop reporting insights to support contracting process.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of the operations, cost drivers, and market dynamics of product and/or service categories across many different departments with emphasis on physician preference areas.
• Present and communicate successes, opportunities, and challenges to Vizient leadership and to member health systems, or key stakeholders.
• Mentor and develop members of the sourcing team (e.g. Sourcing Executive, Associate Sourcing Executives).
• Support Reveal program expansion through recruitment and operational engagement.
• Manage Reveal onboarding process with new suppliers.

Skills

Health care contracting

Negotiation

Leadership experience

Presentation skills

MS Office

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Vizient is seeking a strategic Sourcing Leader to manage sourcing and implementation for the NPC aggregation group. You will partner with Yale New Haven, NPC staff, and Vizient stakeholders to drive best-in-class value, terms, and contracting outcomes.

You will lead negotiations with key suppliers, develop pipeline opportunities, and mentor the sourcing team while coordinating cross-functional efforts across multiple departments. This role involves travel and collaboration with senior management.