Strategic Sourcing Manager

1 week ago

Linthicum Heights, United States University of Maryland Medical System Full time
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionCompany Description

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state's future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System's anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Job Description

This person will support Physician Preference contracting.

General Summary

Under general supervision, provides leadership, coordination and administration for a portfolio of medical and surgical contracts, programs and services. Negotiate and implement purchase agreements encompassing all aspects of medical and surgical group purchasing including contracting for equipment, supplies, pharmaceuticals, lab reagents, equipment service, contracted services, and related distribution and general services.  Focused on maximizing quality and service while achieving standardization, cost control and performance improvement. Directly supervises and assigns tasks to contract specialist in the completion of contract requests.  Provides management reports and analysis of the information processed through the procurement system.

Principal Responsibilities and Tasks

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification.  They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.

  • Manages corporate contracts assigned to their respective commodity group.
  • Interacts at a high level within UMMS and the supplier community.
  • Manages contract personnel assigned to their commodity group.
  • Manages, leads and/or facilitates corporate or any major supply, service or capital initiatives.
  • Leads contract negotiations for all supplier contracts.
  • Provides consultative services to UMMS’ personnel regarding any aspect of supply chain management and strategic sourcing.
  • Prepares Infor Build and Corporate Contract Summary for upload into Infor Contract Management System for their commodity group within System Contracting and Clinical Capital Contracting.
  • Manages contracts assigned to their commodity group to ensure UMMS compliance, vendor compliance, price competitiveness, utilization and market trends.
  • Assists in the development of management cost reporting of expenses, corporate savings programs and recommendations for further “cost cutting” opportunities.
  • Attends appropriate meetings and serves on teams as directed.
Qualifications

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in a Business Administration or related discipline, or equivalent experience is required.  Significant experience sufficient to develop equivalent business knowledge and skills may be considered in lieu of this requirement.
  • Five years of experience in a progressively responsible professional purchasing and/or contracting environment.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Demonstrated ability to work with professional, multi-disciplinary teams as a group leader as well as a participant.
  • Highly effective supervisory skills necessary to train, motivate and monitor a staff working on complex issues.
  • Demonstrated experience in complex contract negotiations.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.


Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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