AVP, Vendor Strategy & Cost Management

Thank you for considering a career at Ensemble! Ensemble is a leading provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management solutions for health systems, including hospitals and affiliated physician groups. They offer end-to-end revenue cycle solutions as well as a comprehensive suite of point solutions to clients across the country. Ensemble keeps communities healthy by keeping hospitals healthy. We recognize that healthcare requires a human touch, and we believe that every touch should be meaningful.

This is why our people are the most important part of who we are. By empowering them to challenge the status quo, we know they will be the difference!

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Purpose:

Customer Obsession:
Consistently provide exceptional experiences for our clients, patients, and colleagues by understanding their needs and exceeding their expectations. Embracing New Ideas:
Continuously innovate by embracing emerging technology and fostering a culture of creativity and experimentation. Striving for Excellence:
Execute at a high level by demonstrating our “Best in KLAS” Ensemble Difference Principles and consistently delivering outstanding results.

The Opportunity:

By embodying our core purpose of customer obsession, driving innovation, and delivering excellence, you will help ensure that every touchpoint is meaningful and contributes to our mission of redefining the possible in healthcare.

The Assistant Vice President (AVP), Vendor Strategy & Cost Management serves as the enterprise leader responsible for optimizing vendor-related financial performance across the organization through advanced spend analytics, utilization management, strategic sourcing, and contract negotiations. This role functions as the organization's “cost czar,” providing deep analytical oversight of vendor spend, utilization trends, pricing structures, and commercial performance. The AVP partners closely with Finance, Operations, Revenue Cycle, Information Technology, Legal, Risk, and executive leadership to ensure vendor investments are strategically aligned, economically justified, and delivering measurable value.

The AVP leads the organization's most complex sourcing events and negotiations, establishes financial accountability for vendor spend, and challenges business stakeholders to validate utilization, demand, and purchasing decisions. Through fact‑based analysis and executive influence, this leader drives cost optimization, margin improvement, and enterprise value realization while maintaining strong business partnerships.

• Serve as the primary leader responsible for enterprise vendor spend transparency and optimization.
• Analyze vendor expenditures across all categories to identify savings opportunities, utilization trends, contract leakage, and margin improvement opportunities.
• Establish enterprise standards for spend reporting, utilization reviews, and sourcing governance.
• Develop executive-level dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into vendor financial performance and emerging trends.
• Partner with Finance and FP&A to validate savings opportunities, financial assumptions, and realized value.

• Conduct comprehensive price and quantity analysis across vendor portfolios.
• Challenge business assumptions and utilization trends to ensure spending decisions are justified and aligned with business priorities.
• Review consumption patterns, transaction volumes, staffing models, and operational demand drivers to identify optimization opportunities.
• Facilitate discussions with business stakeholders regarding utilization variances, budget impacts, and spend management strategies.
• Establish governance processes that promote…