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Duke University is Hiring a Director, Sourcing and Supply Chain Near Durham, NC
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At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together. Director, Sourcing and Supply Chain
Job Code: 5345
FLSA: E
Job Level: J1
Supervisory Responsibility: Yes
General Description of the Job Class Provide leadership related to the strategic sourcing activities and initiatives across both the Duke University Health System, Inc. (DUHS), as well as Duke University (DU), developing and sustaining a best-in-class sourcing program within the United States.
Duties and Responsibilities of this Level Provide leadership for all assigned associates, utilizing a standardized sourcing methodology, contract templates and pre-requisite sourcing strategy and benchmarking proforma. Develop and utilize a strategic sourcing roadmap that includes a twelve-month forward-looking expired contract roadmap. Develop and execute a strategic sourcing roadmap, specific to the needs of the role. To lead and develop a detailed, comprehensive, and progressive plan with Duke's group purchasing organization to ensure maximum administrative fees are realized for the organization. Responsible for interacting with the remainder of the Supply Chain strategic sourcing leadership to leverage all initiatives and dollars spent against all capital equipment sourcing initiatives to achieve the best pricing for Duke. Responsible for developing a standardized set of benchmark tools and processes for assigned services. Provide leadership responsibility to identify and cultivate a standardized supply inventory room proforma, including size, room configuration, location proximity to point-of-care environments, and complete with the inclusion of standardized inventory management methodologies and technology capabilities.
Responsible for leadership related to the development, execution, and achievement of all cost savings initiatives related to the assigned areas of responsibility necessary to support department, DUHS and DU-related initiatives. Commensurate with this leadership responsibility, utilize the department-recognized price benchmarking standards to strive to achieve industry-best pricing across all sourcing-related activities. Provide leadership to develop a specific economic valuation target for each operating fiscal year, as a subset to the overall Supply Chain expense reduction targets.
Provide leadership to develop a commensurate process to strategically source and negotiate all service-related agreements associated with any sourcing. Be responsible for negotiating best-in-class terms related to any service agreement-related attribute that impacts overall operating expense, i.e. warranty, service, parts replacement, etc.Provide leadership to interact with the designated Supply Chain group purchasing organization and any assigned purchasing aggregation groups, complete with detailed benchmarking assessments, for the purpose of generating economic value and overall margin improvement.
As a post-sourcing related activity, be responsible for developing and implementing compliance management standards, to ensure agreement-based compliance management, an overall reduction in clinical variation in use, and the migration to product standardization. Responsible for demonstrating successful leadership collaboration with other members of Supply Chain leadership to foster and advance positive change and strategic sourcing roadmaps that mitigate risk and advance economic value and that serve the overall needs of organizational stakeholders. Be a responsible and supportive leader in relation to measuring, monitoring, and continuously improving the overall time to execution (Time to Execution), as targeted within the Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard.
Responsible for the leadership related to advancing the DUHS and DU supplier consolidation and product standardization roadmap. Responsible for the strategic sourcing initiatives necessary to reduce supplier and product variation, serving as a supporting collaborative for both value analysis and Supply Chain Operations in the operational product substitution necessary to support the supplier reduction and product standardization.
Responsible for leading all associates in the use and deployment of standards of work, including, but not limited to standardized i.) sourcing methodologies, ii.) contract repository and sourcing project management platform, iii.) contract template deployment and utilization, and iv.) overall utilization of the Supply Chain balanced scorecard.
Responsible for developing strategic sourcing plans that, in conjunction with Supply Chain Supplier Diversity, achieve the Tier 1 and Tier 2 supplier diversity goal objectives for Supply Chain, as a subset to the overall objectives from DUHS and DU. Be responsible for the continued integration and advancement of Supply Chain integration with the designated group purchasing organization, including any alignment with selected aggregation groups. Provide leadership support, coaching, and candid feedback to the Vice President, Supply Chain in all aspects of responsibility.
**Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.**
Required Qualifications at this Level Education Requires a bachelor's degree. A Master's Degree is strongly preferred. Certified project management and APICS certification are a plus.
Experience Minimum of ten years in progressively responsible positions including supervision and program leadership. Willingness to effectively lead through an evolving and dynamic work environment, consisting of both in-person and remote working arrangements (Hybrid).
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