Join a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine, as the Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing. We are seeking an experienced leader who will continue to evolve a leading healthcare supply chain operation. This health system leader will have responsibility for the development and execution of the system wide strategic sourcing, contracting, and value analysis functions. You will lead and develop team members while driving clinical sourcing strategies to achieve best total value for the health system including supplier relationship management, negotiation and category management strategies, contract lifecycle management and supply base performance management. This position also oversees the value analysis program activities through the new product development process, including supplier identification, qualification and selection. It oversees all aspects of non-labor cost management along with sourcing and execution of the annual routine capital equipment projects and clinical equipment sourcing for all new sites. This role also leads the Supply Chain affiliate program working closely with the business development office. This is a highly visible role presenting and participating in industry forums and conferences to share knowledge, highlight UCM accomplishments, and to remain abreast of current trends, opportunities and the overall business environment.
Reporting to the Chief Supply Chain Officer, this Executive Director is a strategic business partner. A critical thinker and influential leader, the successful candidate will have 3 direct reports and provide leadership for a department that operates and maintains operations and activities for the Hyde Park Academic Medical Center campus facilities, in addition to the Ingalls Memorial Hospital campus and the UChicago Medicine Crown Point campus, as well as various ambulatory locations in our growing health system. The successful candidate must be able to actively manage human, capital, and operational resources using well-developed metrics and KPIs. This position manages an annual spend over $1B.
E4 Leadership (Equity, Engage, Evolve, Excel) is a patient centered management system that empowers teams to improve on a daily basis. This is done through daily readiness huddles, real time process monitoring, performance review huddles and structured problem solving. E4 Leadership is an evolving system where leaders work together to cultivate a culture of equity and continuous improvement that enables:
As part of the leadership team, this position will be instrumental in reinforcing and sustaining UCM’s E4 Leadership Culture.
The University of Chicago Medicine has been at the forefront of medicine since 1927, when we cared for our first patients. Our mission is to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, ever mindful of each patient's dignity and individuality. To accomplish our mission, we call upon the skills and expertise of all who work together to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and further the knowledge of those dedicated to caring.
As one of the nation’s leading academic medical institutions, UChicago Medicine comprises the Medical Center, Pritzker School of Medicine and the Biological Sciences Division. Its main Hyde Park campus is home to the Center for Care and Discovery, Bernard Mitchell Hospital, Comer Children’s Hospital and the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine. It also has a 108,000-square-foot facility in Orland Park as well as an outpatient clinic in Chicago's South Loop, as well as affiliations and partnerships that create a regional network of doctors in dozens of Chicago-area communities.
UChicago Medicine offers a full range of specialty-care services for adults and children through more than 40 institutes and centers including an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. It has 805 licensed beds, nearly 850 attending physicians, about 2,500 nurses and over 1,100 residents and fellows. Harvey-based Ingalls Health joined UChicago Medicine’s network in 2016.
