Summary
Job Description:
Baptist Health is looking for a Contract Manager to join their Supply Chain team! This is a remote work position for candidates who reside in KY or IN.
The Contract Manager is responsible for leading system wide contracting of supplies, equipment, material, services and maintenance. This includes extensive procurement, contracting, and purchasing functions, with the goal of driving significant savings or cost avoidance by pointing procurement towards our contracted options.
The manager is responsible for providing high quality, efficient, and cost-effective service to the organization with an emphasis on customer service. Achieving standards of performance, portfolio management and collaboration with leadership and system departments. The position will also be focused on continuous process improvement, benchmarking, performance measurement, and reporting.
Responsibilities include assisting in the identification and review of new and alternative product selections, sourcing products within the vendor community, monitoring vendor performance, and building business relationships. Also negotiates contracts, including GPO, IDN and hospital specific contracts within their service line.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field. Prefer a clinical background like nursing
- Advanced certification in supply chain or healthcare administration preferred
- 3+ years experience related experience in contracting, supply chain, or healthcare administration
- Market knowledge of key medical/surgical supplies and services preferred
- Experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, negotiating, contracting, business law, cost containment, and expense management activities preferred
Healthcare Contracting, Healthcare Contract Manager, Hospital Contracting, Hospital Contract Manager, Contract Administrator, Supply Chain Manager, Healthcare Supply Chain Manager
Work Experience
Relevant Work ExperienceEducation
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in related field
- 3+ years experience in contracting, supply chain, or healthcare administration
- Advanced certification in supply chain or healthcare administration
- Market knowledge of key medical/surgical supplies and services
- Experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, negotiating, contracting, business law
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
