System Director – Strategic Sourcing & 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

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.