VP Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Relations

Description

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The HCS VP Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Relations role provides enterprise leadership for supply chain resource stewardship functions, including clinical resource management, value analysis, non-clinical and purchased services sourcing oversight, system-level sourcing strategy, capital resource alignment, contract lifecycle management, supplier performance oversight.

The VP ensures that supply chain resource decisions-clinical and non-clinical-align with service line priorities, physician-driven requirements, operational needs, financial stewardship, and UNC Health's mission to deliver high-value, high-quality patient care. This role promotes a data-driven approach linking clinical evidence, operations, spend analytics, and vendor strategies to maximize system value. Additionally, the Vice President fosters strong alignment and synergy across the health system by integrating sourcing strategies, value analysis and vendor partnerships with both clinical and non-clinical leadership, enabling collaborative decision-making, optimizing resource utilization, and ensuring cohesive execution of enterprise-wide strategic initiatives.

The role reports to the Chief Supply Chain Officer.

Enterprise Leader & System Integration:
Serve as a core member of the Supply Chain Executive Leadership Team, shaping enterprise supply chain direction, systemness, and long-term resource stewardship strategy. Partner with clinical, operational, financial, ISD, and service line leaders to ensure supply chain resource priorities align with organizational goals, care models, and investment strategies. Translate enterprise strategic priorities into coordinated approaches for clinical resources, purchased services, contract lifecycle management, supplier portfolios, and capital-related resource planning.

Represent UNC Health as the executive leader for supply chain resource stewardship in internal, external, and industry forums. Clinical Resource Management, Value Analysis, & Physician Engagement:
Provide executive leadership for UNC Health's Value Analysis program, ensuring that product decisions are clinically led, evidence-based, outcomes-focused, and aligned with service line strategies. Partner directly with physicians, surgeons, nursing leaders, researchers, and clinical leadership to prioritize resource decisions that support quality, safety, and clinical workflow. Establish enterprise standards for product evaluation, introduction, conversion, and utilization, ensuring disciplined, transparent, and data-supported decision-making.

Ensure that clinical resource decisions incorporate total cost of ownership, clinical impact modeling, and systemwide adoption planning. Non-Clinical & Purchased Services Spend Management:
Lead enterprise oversight of non-clinical and purchased services resource categories, ensuring disciplined assessment of scope, cost, utilization drivers, supplier performance, and operational reliability. Drive portfolio strategies that balance financial stewardship, operational continuity, service performance, and risk management across all non-clinical domains. Ensure consistent application of enterprise methodologies for prioritization, analysis, supplier evaluation, and contracting across the non-clinical spend landscape. Capital Resource Alignment & Collaborations with ISD:
Provide executive partnership to ISD, Finance, and clinical leadership in capital resource planning, evaluation, sourcing, and lifecycle considerations. Participate in capital-related governance bodies to ensure capital investments align with clinical service line strategy, interoperability requirements, safety standards, and financial stewardship. Oversee preparation of sourcing, commercial analysis, and vendor engagement materials for capital resource decisions. Ensure capital resource strategies align with system technology roadmaps, cybersecurity standards, support models, and long-term lifecycle planning.

Contract Lifecycle Management & Supplier Strategy:
Oversee enterprise contract lifecycle management processes, ensuring contracts are configured, maintained, monitored, and optimized throughout their lifecycle. Lead supplier strategy across clinical, non-clinical, purchased services, and capital-related spend, including segmentation, performance management, commercial negotiations, and executive business reviews. Ensure competitive bidding, contracting standards, compliance practices, and supplier accountability mechanisms are consistently applied across categories. Serve as a senior liaison to GPO partners, influencing contract strategy, supplier innovation pipelines, and emerging technology pathways.

Embed proactive risk identification and mitigation into sourcing and contracting strategies, including supplier financial stability,…