Position Overview
Responsible for developing sourcing strategies to align with the overall goals of Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation. Leverage BMHCC’s purchasing volume to ensure all contractual agreements are of the highest quality and at the lowest total cost for products and services.
Responsibilities
- Negotiating contracts with key suppliers, including costs, agreement terms of supply, service and quality.
- Influence collaboration between cross-functional stakeholders to identify cost savings opportunities, operational efficiencies and facilitate strong partnerships between BMHCC and its strategic vendors.
- Administers the “Request For” (RF) process from preparing the request to supplier award and implementation.
- Responsible for the beginning to end process for agreements from negotiations, drafting contractual documents, gaining approvals and signature.
- Utilize benchmarking tools (ex. mdbuyline and Group Purchasing Organization) to validate pricing and support lowest total cost negotiations.
- Act as liaison between internal stakeholders, legal, finance, risk and vendors to ensure compliance to sourcing and contracting policies and procedures.
- Request and analyze quotes, compiling a detailed assessment of cost breakdowns.
- Manage and coordinate multiple projects, sourcing events and contracts.
- Manage supplier relationships and ensure the ongoing management of performance, quality, cost, contractual commitments, etc.
- Completes assigned goals
Education and Experience Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, economics, finance, logistics, or in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Five (5) years’ experience negotiating contractual agreements preferably in a related industry.
- Experience in the sourcing process
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Analytical skills with ability to collect and correlate information and data
- Written and verbal communication skills and mathematical skill to calculate figures and amounts.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Sound time-management and organizational skills.
Preferred
- Certifications: APP, CPM, CPSM, CPIM, APICS
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, economics, finance, logistics, or related field or equivalent experience.
- Five years' experience negotiating contractual agreements.
- Experience in the sourcing process and administering RF/purchasing workflows.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Analytical, written and verbal communication, and mathematical skills.
- Time-management and organizational skills.
- Certifications such as APP, CPM, CPSM, CPIM, APICS.
What We Do
Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Baptist offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and consistently ranks among the top integrated health care networks in the country. The health care system comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, Mississippi and East Arkansas; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 900 providers; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by Baptist Health Sciences University (formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences). Baptist employs more than 21,000 people, and in fiscal year 2022 contributed more than $455 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook or Instagram.
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