Sourcing Manager

April 10

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Advocate Aurora Health

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Advocate Aurora Health is a leading healthcare organization that operates across various regions including Central Chicagoland, Central Wisconsin, Greater Milwaukee, and more. With a diverse range of career areas such as advanced practice clinicians, behavioral health, nursing, and more, Advocate Aurora Health is committed to helping people live well. The organization offers numerous benefits and opportunities for career advancement, fostering an environment where individuals can thrive and innovate in the healthcare sector. Advocate Aurora Health prioritizes the safety of its candidates and maintains a robust recruitment process to protect sensitive information.

Health Care • Hospitals • Outpatient Care • Clinical Trials • Scientific Research

10,000+ employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 $10.2M Grant on 2019-08

📋 Description

• Responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategy for food-related products and services, leveraging best practices, identifying cost containment opportunities, and standardizing products. • Ensure purchasing strategies support Advocate Health’s strategic plan, mitigate risk, maximize efficiency, and achieve cost, quality, and service delivery goals. • Aligns functional team strategy to enterprise strategy. • Manage multi-million-dollar food service contracts within both managed and non-managed programs. • Supports strategic sourcing best practices for enterprise across assigned categories. • Supports sourcing strategies such as analyzing market fundamentals, industry data, price benchmarks, cost drivers and trends, key cost variances, and economic forecasting in assigned categories. • Accountability for the end-to-end sourcing process, including supplier identification, qualification, selection, negotiation, and contracting. • Identify cost-saving opportunities through comprehensive analysis of utilization, pricing, and contracting. • Foster strong relationships with suppliers and supports supply chain-supplier relationships in assigned categories. • Work closely with value analysis, finance, supply chain management, and other relevant stakeholders to understand their needs and priorities. • Develop and manage metrics and performance indicators to measure the impact of strategic sourcing initiatives on cost savings, quality improvement, and patient outcomes.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply chain, Business or related field. • Typically requires 5 years of experience in procurement, materials management, logistics, and finance. • Includes 3 years of management experience in planning, directing, and leading a centralized purchasing function, value analysis, the standardization of products, and the implementation of best practice and cost containment initiatives. • Knowledge in system-wide purchasing strategies, processes, and programs which support a service focused, cost effective, and centralized model. • Demonstrated successful contract negotiation skills and ability to establish and administer complex contracts for products and services. • Sound knowledge of inventory management and related accounting processes. • Skills developing strategic and tactical plans to meet business objectives in a large healthcare system. • Excellent communication skills necessary to communicate effectively with senior administrators, department leaders, physicians, vendors, and clinical staff to support Advocate Health’s goals. • Excellent analytical, quantitative, and qualitative skills. Ability to identify and solve problems creatively, to work within deadlines with a high attention to detail and to work independently in a fast paced, dynamic environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs • Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs • Educational Assistance Program