Position Summary:
This position will be responsible for clinical services category management and sourcing for a large healthcare client. As a key member of our Client Services team, you will manage engagements across a range of clinical services, including anesthesia services, radiology services, dialysis services, and specialty lab services. You will be responsible for leading the sourcing strategies, engaging with stakeholders, and optimizing spend, ensuring compliance with healthcare procurement standards, and driving cost-saving initiatives. This role will report directly to the Managing Director, Sourcing and Procurement.
Responsibilities:
- Develop cost savings and strategic sourcing projects for clinical services categories, including but not limited to:
- Anesthesia services
- Radiology services
- Dialysis services
- Specialty lab services
- Manage spend, supplier, and market data from the client and LogicSource resources to analyze both savings opportunities and value chain impacts.
- Lead supplier market RFI / RFP activities, including execution, readouts, and business case implications. Meet with potential participants, both incumbents and non-incumbents, answer RFP-related questions from vendors, analyze RFP results, and support final vendor(s) awards.
- Drive annual productivity improvements across clinical services categories by developing and ensuring implementation of ideas to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Support the development of new policies and procedures to drive savings and lead operational change management within clinical services spend.
- Leverage LogicSource’s Center of Excellence (COE) category experts to assess market conditions, spend leverage opportunities, benchmarking data, RFP builds, and related activities in clinical services.
- Support and lead sourcing events, including vendor sourcing, vendor and contract negotiations for clinical services.
- Onboard new suppliers for clinical services.
- Bring sourcing efficiency to all clinical services activity; define specific roadmaps containing prioritization of clinical services categories.
- Lead research and analytics efforts to validate savings projections and enable more precise supplier negotiations.
- Review major contracts for key clinical services spend areas and act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for planning and leading complex negotiations or re-supply modeling.
- Consistently monitor and evaluate savings against targets by category, sub-category, and supplier.
- Develop PPV (product price variance) trackers to ensure improved price/savings baseline analysis for clinical services.
- Develop and communicate clinical services supply chain or sourcing strategy to a diverse group of managers and senior-level professionals at the client.
- Source suppliers and build a best-in-class clinical services supply chain; cultivate and manage relationships with best-in-class clinical service providers.
- Build supplier management and continuous improvement methodologies with key suppliers for clinical services.
- Establish and implement a clinical services supplier management structure and process; audit and vet vendors.
- Work cross-functionally to deliver sourcing and procurement cost savings, risk mitigation projects, and supplier-enabled innovation across clinical services categories.
- Aggressive focus on achieving overall clinical services category cost savings
