System Director Sourcing and Procurement

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Marietta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical benefits

Wellbeing support and counseling

Paid time off and disability coverage

401(k) plan with company match

Job summary

HCA Healthcare is seeking a System Director of Sourcing and Procurement to lead system-level strategic sourcing, procurement operations, and supplier management across a large health system.

The role reports to the Vice President of Supply Chain and partners with Contracting, Value Analysis, and clinical leaders to optimize total cost of ownership, service performance, and supply continuity while ensuring compliant purchasing practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Business, Supply Chain, Healthcare Administration, Finance, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in healthcare supply chain, including significant responsibility across strategic sourcing and/or procurement operations.
• Experience leading category strategies, competitive sourcing events, commercial supplier negotiations, and measurable value realization in partnership with contracting, finance, and legal functions.
• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience including hiring, coaching, performance management, staff development and succession planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the system procurement function, including buyers and assigned purchasing resources, with clear service expectations, standardized work, decision rights, workload management, and accountability.
• Own requisition-to-purchase-order performance across hospitals, ambulatory sites, and system departments, improving cycle time, purchase-order quality, policy compliance, and stakeholder experience.
• Establish and manage procurement service levels and performance measures for productivity, responsiveness, backlog, accuracy, compliance, exceptions, and customer experience; use capacity and demand data to optimize coverage and escalation pathways.
• Coach and develop the procurement team through performance management, cross-training, succession planning, and professional development.
• Lead the system strategic sourcing agenda and multi-year category pipeline, prioritizing opportunities based on financial value, clinical and operational impact, supply risk, stakeholder priorities, market dynamics, and organizational readiness.
• Develop and execute category strategies using spend and utilization analytics, market intelligence, benchmarking, supplier capabilities, and total-cost-of-ownership principles; maintain category roadmaps that drive competition, standardization, consolidation, demand management, and value realization.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Negotiation

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA (preferred)

Tools

ERP/eProcurement

Job description

This position is incentive eligible.

Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as a System Director Sourcing and Procurement? At HT WS Atlanta, you come first. HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Job Summary and Qualifications

The System Director, Sourcing and Procurement provides system-level leadership for strategic sourcing, category management, procurement operations, buyer performance, supplier enablement, and purchase-order execution across the health system. Reporting to the Vice President of Supply Chain, this role owns the system sourcing agenda and procurement operating model, developing strategies that improve total cost of ownership, purchasing compliance, service performance, supply continuity, and stakeholder experience while translating approved sourcing and contracting strategies into accurate, timely, and compliant purchases.

The Director leads the sourcing and procurement organization and partners closely with the System Directors of Contracting, Value Analysis, and Supply Chain Operations, as well as physicians and clinical leaders, Finance, Accounts Payable, Information Technology, Legal, and suppliers. The role leads category strategy, competitive sourcing, and commercial supplier negotiations within delegated authority, while partnering with Contracting on formal agreements and contract lifecycle activities. Through market intelligence, analytics, standardized processes, supplier relationship management, and digital procurement capabilities, the Director reduces variation, strengthens resilience, develops talent, and builds scalable system procurement practices

What you will do in this role:

Procurement Operations and Buyer Leadership:

• Lead the system procurement function, including buyers and assigned purchasing resources, with clear service expectations, standardized work, decision rights, workload management, and accountability.

• Own requisition-to-purchase-order performance across hospitals, ambulatory sites, and system departments, improving cycle time, purchase-order quality, policy compliance, and stakeholder experience

• Establish and manage procurement service levels and performance measures for productivity, responsiveness, backlog, accuracy, compliance, exceptions, and customer experience; use capacity and demand data to optimize coverage and escalation pathways.

• Coach and develop the procurement team through performance management, cross-training, succession planning, and professional development.

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management:

• Own the system strategic sourcing agenda and multi-year category pipeline, prioritizing opportunities based on financial value, clinical and operational impact, supply risk, stakeholder priorities, market dynamics, and organizational readiness.

• Develop and execute category strategies using spend and utilization analytics, market intelligence, benchmarking, supplier capabilities, and total-cost-of-ownership principles; maintain category roadmaps that drive competition, standardization, consolidation, demand management, and value realization.

• Lead competitive sourcing activities within delegated authority, including RFx events, market assessments, supplier evaluation, quote and commercial analysis, and negotiation strategy; partner with physicians, clinicians, Value Analysis, and operational leaders to balance quality, outcomes, innovation, supply assurance, and financial value.

• Partner with clinical and operational leaders to identify utilization, specification, standardization, and consumption opportunities that reduce total cost while maintaining or improving clinical and operational outcomes.

• Optimize use of GPO and local agreements, approved suppliers, formularies, and standards; identify contract leakage, non-contracted spend, supplier fragmentation, and recurring exceptions, and support new facilities, acquisitions, conversions, and integrations through sourcing and procurement standardization.

Contract Negotiation & Contracting Partnership:

• Lead the commercial components of supplier negotiations within delegated authority, including pricing, service levels, performance expectations, implementation requirements, incentives, and total-cost considerations.

• Partner with the System Director of Contracting and Legal on complex agreements, formal terms and conditions, amendments, renewals, and risk mitigation; provide sourcing strategy, market intelligence, supplier analysis, and operational requirements to support negotiations.

• Ensure disciplined transition from sourcing and negotiation to contract execution and operationalization, including supplier enablement, pricing, catalogs, buyer guidance, purchasing controls, implementation milestones, and compliance monitoring.

Supplier Relationship Management, Performance and Resilience:

• Establish differentiated supplier relationship management practices for strategic and critical suppliers, including executive business reviews, performance improvement, innovation, risk management, and joint value‑creation opportunities.

• Oversee supplier onboarding and procurement enablement; establish operational performance measures and escalation practices for responsiveness, fill performance, lead times, ordering and pricing accuracy, freight, invoice‑match quality, and recurring service issues.

• Assess category and supplier risk, including sole‑source exposure, geographic concentration, market disruption, and supply continuity; develop commercial and sourcing mitigation strategies in partnership with Supply Chain Operations and other stakeholders.

• Advance electronic catalogs, EDI, punchout, supplier portals, and related capabilities that improve data quality, transaction reliability, and touchless procurement.

Digital Procurement, Process and Controls:

• Serve as the business leader for procurement workflows within the ERP and related purchasing technologies, defining standardized, efficient, user‑centered, auditable, and scalable future‑state processes.

• Partner with Master Data, Contracting, Finance, Accounts Payable, Information Technology, and Operations to improve supplier, item, pricing, catalog, and purchasing data quality and reliable downstream processing and analytics.

• Leverage workflow automation, analytics, Lean/root‑cause methods, and digital procurement tools to reduce manual work, defects, rework, cycle time, and variation across the procure‑to‑pay continuum.

Financial Performance Value Realization & Compliance:

• Establish sourcing pipeline governance for opportunity identification, prioritization, resource allocation, stakeholder sponsorship, milestone management, implementation follow‑through, and value validation.

• Accountable for identifying, developing, tracking, and realizing financial and non‑financial value from strategic sourcing, demand management, procurement improvement, compliance, automation, and supplier‑performance initiatives in partnership with Finance and key stakeholders.

• Monitor purchasing compliance, purchase‑price variance, off‑contract spend, PO utilization, invoice exceptions, expedited freight, transaction cost, and related indicators; maintain appropriate segregation of duties, approval discipline, documentation, and audit readiness.

Leadership, Stakeholder Partnership & Change:

• Lead, coach, and develop sourcing and procurement personnel; align organization structure, skills, workload, resources, and succession plans with system priorities and performance expectations.

• Build trusted partnerships with clinical and operational leaders, Value Analysis, Supply Chain Operations, Contracting, Finance, Accounts Payable, Information Technology, Legal, and suppliers to align sourcing and procurement priorities with system needs.

• Lead adoption of standardized processes, technology, policy, and new ways of working across the health system; use stakeholder feedback, service metrics, benchmarking, and operating data to prioritize improvement and strengthen the end‑user experience.

• Communicate sourcing pipeline, procurement performance, supplier risks, value realization, service trends, and transformation progress through dashboards, operating reviews, and executive updates.

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor's degree required in Business, Supply Chain, Healthcare Administration, Finance, or related field. – Required

• MBA or relevant advanced degree – Preferred

• 8+ years of progressive experience in healthcare supply chain, including significant responsibility across strategic sourcing and/or procurement operations – Required

• Experience leading category strategies, competitive sourcing events, commercial supplier negotiations, and measurable value realization in partnership with contracting, finance, and legal functions. – Required

• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience including hiring, coaching, performance management, staff development and succession planning. – Required

• Demonstrated experience leading buyer, procurement, or sourcing teams in a multi‑state or complex organization. – Required

• Experience with ERP/eProcurement systems, electronic catalogs, RFx tools, purchase‑order workflows, supplier enablement, analytics, and procure‑to‑pay processes – Required

• Experience working within integrated delivery networks, healthcare systems, GPO environments, or large healthcare organizations – Preferred

• Professional certification in supply chain, procurement, or healthcare supply chain (e.g., CMRP, CPSM, CPIM) preferred – Preferred

• Strategic Sourcing & Category Management - Demonstrated ability to build category strategies and sourcing pipelines using spend, utilization, market intelligence, benchmarking, supplier capabilities, risk, and total‑cost‑of‑ownership principles – Required

• Procurement Operations - Strong knowledge of purchasing, buyer workflows, requisition‑to‑purchase‑order performance, supplier enablement, procure‑to‑pay controls, service levels, and operational performance management. – Required

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long‑and‑short‑term disability coverage and leaves of absence

• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

In today's challenging business environment of cost pressures, supply disruptions, and workforce shortages, it is crucial for providers to efficiently manage expenses and enhance performance. HealthTrust, in collaboration with 1,800 hospitals and health systems, offers a specialized group purchasing organization (GPO) membership model designed to deliver immediate and sustainable cost savings. Their team of experts provides tailored value acceleration engagements to address specific needs, delivering unparalleled benefits. With nationwide purchasing power and a focus on overall spending management, HealthTrust offers unmatched pricing advantages on supplies, along with industry-leading benchmarks and best practices. The dedicated team is committed to guiding and implementing performance enhancements in cost, quality, and outcomes.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years. HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in costs for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Good people beget good people."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are a family 270,000 dedicated professionals! Our Talent Acquisition team is reviewing applications for our System Director Sourcing and Procurement opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.