Job Description

Calling All Esteemed Leaders! Are you a strategic supply chain executive with deep expertise in analytics, inventory strategy, and enterprise operations? Do you thrive at the intersection of data, technology, and complex healthcare supply chains—driving resilience, visibility, and performance at scale? This senior leadership opportunity invites your capabilities.

The Role

The AVP of Control Tower and Inventory Strategy is a senior executive responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing an enterprise‑wide supply chain control tower for the healthcare ecosystem. This leader oversees real‑time visibility, predictive analytics, and orchestrated response across suppliers, distributors, providers, and internal supply chain teams. The AVP ensures resilience, reliability, and agility across the supply chain while driving cost, quality, and performance improvements.

This role acts as the strategic integrator between data, technology, operations, and partner networks, ensuring situational awareness and coordinated action across the healthcare supply chain.

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position advocates cutting‑edge strategies for data analysis using historical purchasing trends to inform future forecasts and inventory needs; maintains progressive strategies to improve the creation and analysis of demand forecasts; performs return on investment (ROI) analysis for centrally owned inventory; and drives strategic improvements to identify, communicate, and resolve highly complex and high‑impact product shortages, including escalation management.

The role further champions innovative strategies for identifying acceptable alternatives for shortage items in partnership with sourcing, suppliers, and clinicians; ensures effective communication to suppliers, vendors, and supply chain teams; champions state‑of‑the‑art spend‑savings strategies in partnership with Finance; maintains progressive strategies to improve inventory readiness and depletion for new products and conversions; guides development of innovative automated replenishment strategies across the majority of inventory categories; establishes statistical stock and par levels at the point of consumption; and champions innovative strategies for inventory data and analysis.

What You’ll Do

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Develop and execute the long‑term vision for a digital, analytics‑driven Control Tower that improves transparency, responsiveness, and decision‑making across the healthcare supply chain.
• Define the operating model, governance, service lines, and performance metrics for the Control Tower.
• Serve as an enterprise authority on supply chain risk, resilience, and end‑to‑end visibility strategies.

Control Tower Operations

• Lead real‑time monitoring of supply, demand, inventory, logistics, and disruptions across the supplier–provider ecosystem.
• Oversee triage, escalation, and mitigation processes for shortages, delays, recalls, emergent events, and market volatility.
• Ensure proactive alerts, scenario planning, and predictive risk modeling are integrated into decision workflows.
• Ensure adequate inventory levels are maintained through innovative disruption‑resolution strategies, advanced transaction and ordering processes, progressive approaches to minimizing obsolescence and expiration, and long‑term maintenance of complex reorder levels to support product rotation and inventory accuracy.
• Serve as an expert internal consultant and external spokesperson for enterprise inventory control initiatives.
• Maintain and continuously improve supply chain operations.
• Ensure purchasing strategies are consistent with overall sourcing strategies.

Technology, Data & Analytics Enablement

• Partner with IT, data engineering, product, and analytics teams to design and enhance platforms supporting the Control Tower.
• Champion advanced analytics, AI/ML, predictive modeling, and digital‑twin capabilities to anticipate supply chain risk.
• Drive integration of internal and external data streams, ensuring data quality, interoperability, and real‑time availability.

Collaboration, Performance & Risk Management

• Act as the primary liaison with manufacturers, distributors, providers, GPOs, logistics partners, internal business units, and executive leadership.
• Facilitate cross‑functional alignment and response during disruptions or crisis events.
• Establish KPIs, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to support visibility and accountability.
• Drive continuous improvement through root‑cause analysis, process refinement, and best‑practice adoption.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements related to supply chain transparency and operational readiness.
• Lead enterprise supply chain risk assessments, vulnerability analysis, and resiliency planning.
• Develop disruption‑response playbooks to ensure continuity of supply for critical medical products.
• Monitor geopolitical, economic, manufacturing, and logistics trends to anticipate external risks.

Team Leadership & Development

• Build and lead a high‑performing Control Tower team with expertise in operations, analytics, supply chain, and incident management.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Support key projects across Supply Chain, as needed.

What You’ll Bring

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Administration, Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field
• Master’s Degree in Business, Administration, Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field (preferred)

Experience & Expertise

• Ten (10) or more years of experience in supply chain operations, logistics, or healthcare supply chain leadership
• Demonstrated experience designing or leading a supply chain Control Tower or similar real‑time operational center
• Proven track record leveraging advanced analytics and digital technologies for operational improvement
• Experience leading cross‑functional teams in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments
• Experience within healthcare provider, distributor, manufacturer, or GPO settings (preferred)
• Familiarity with AI/ML, digital twins, advanced analytics, or ERP/SCM platforms (preferred)
• Knowledge of healthcare product categories, sourcing strategies, resiliency approaches, and regulatory environments

Leadership Capabilities

• Strategic and systems thinking
• Data‑driven decision‑making
• Executive presence and communication skills
• Crisis and risk management expertise
• Strong relationship‑building and influence skills
• Operational excellence and continuous improvement mindset
• Change leadership and innovation capability

Why Join Us?

• Enterprise Impact: Shape the resilience and responsiveness of a healthcare supply chain at scale.
• Strategic Visibility: Influence decision‑making across suppliers, providers, and executive leadership.
• Innovation‑Driven Role: Lead advanced analytics, automation, and predictive strategies.
• Collaborative Environment: Partner closely with clinicians, operators, suppliers, and technology leaders.
• Purpose‑Driven Work: Ensure critical supplies reach caregivers and patients when they are needed most.

Ready to Shape the Future of Healthcare?

If you are a forward‑thinking supply chain leader with a passion for analytics, inventory strategy, and enterprise transformation, we encourage you to apply. Step into this influential role and help define the future of healthcare supply chain performance and resilience.

The full pay range is listed in accordance with applicable law. Final compensation will be determined based on qualifications, experience, organizational compensation alignment, and the approved hiring department budget for the position. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation and benefits.

At Providence we believe in the importance of human connection and the impact of in-person collaboration towards team cohesion and caregiver engagement. Further, we want our leaders to live in or near the communities we serve. Therefore, leaders applying for this role will be required to work a hybrid schedule, which consists of three days onsite, two days remote and live within a reasonable commuting distance to the ministry or service area they support and lead.

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

Posted are the minimum and the maximum wage rates on the wage range for this position. The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits

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