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Beth Israel Lahey Health’s roots in providing top-quality health care date back nearly a century. We're fully committed to ensuring our patients receive the care they deserve. As a leading healthcare provider throughout New England, we aim to change the current state of health care for the better and make lasting improvements that guarantee access to our services.

Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Charlestown, Massachusetts

Organization Facility: Beth Israel Lahey Health - Non Executive Category: Contract Management & Value Analysis Job ID: JR44785 Date posted: 02/26/2024
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When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

40

Work Shift:

Day (United States of America)

• This role will ensure BILH negotiates optimal system-wide contracts from both a cost and quality perspective. This role will identify and prioritize both clinical and purchased service contracts with an emphasis on information technologies and facilities to be renegotiated at a system level, driving the process and focusing on vendor consolidation, appropriate short-term contracts, and other initiatives that will generate substantial savings for the health system.

Job Description:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to: 

  • Evaluates internal and benchmarking data to identify purchased service and clinical cost savings opportunities 
  • Develops and implement BILH contracts to ensure cost-effective and quality-driven supplies and services
  • Manages vendor relationships, develops contract/relationship performance goals and criteria, and serves as a subject matter expert resource
  • Works collaboratively with all key stakeholders, including supply chain, clinical departments, and finance on cost savings initiatives specifically relating to contracting operations
  • Leads and/or staffs multi-disciplinary teams to select/standardize contracting choices that maximize supply chain savings while meeting clinical and operational needs. Conducts and/or staffs group meetings to facilitate contract review, trials, and implementation
  • Evaluates the success of the contract once implemented, reconciles problems between BILH and vendors, and makes relevant recommendations to best meet the supply chain needs of the system
  • Analyzes data and provide cost savings reports to leadership on a routine basis
  • Shares information and educates managers and physicians throughout the system to advance others' ability to improve supply chain performance
  • Builds, maintains, and manages strong partnerships with our strategic vendors

Minimum Qualifications: 
Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, finance, supply chain management, or a closely related field is preferred; Master’s Degree preferred


Licensure, Certification & Registration:

  • Certified Materials and Resource Professional (CMRP) certification preferred


Experience:

  • Seven (7) years of purchasing, contracting, or materials management experience, preferably in a healthcare setting
  • Five (5) years or more of contract negotiating experience.
  • Expertise in healthcare purchased services particularly purchased services. Experience with IT and facilities contract is beneficial.
  • The incumbent should have progressive management and leadership experiences Purchased Service proficiency is expected. 


Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
  • Workday experience preferred
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong project management skills including the ability to plan, organize, and complete work projects in a cross-functional team setting
  • Results and deadline-oriented with the ability to manage competing priorities under pressure
  • Strong relationship management skills with the ability to gain buy-in from employees not directly under his/her span of control
  • Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing


Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

  • N/A


Dept./Unit-Specific Skills:      
N/A

FLSA Status:

Exempt

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a difference and explore your potential, Beth Israel Lahey Health is the place you belong. Our system includes a network of hospitals, physician practices, outpatient centers, and other healthcare facilities and we offer a broad range of careers in direct patient care, environmental services, registration, finance and many other fields. We are focused on providing compassionate and personalized healthcare with a strong reputation for clinical excellence and research and offer diverse opportunities for career growth and development. Conveniently, we have many locations in communities across Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.

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