Purchased Services Director

This position is incentive eligible.

Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as a Purchased Services Director? At Health Trust, you come first. HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.

The Senior Director, Purchased Services leads the strategy, management, and execution of sourcing initiatives across all clinical and non-clinical service categories and technologies. This role oversees the development of a comprehensive purchased services program, including expense management, supplier negotiations, analytics, contract execution, and value realization. Key responsibilities include identifying purchased services opportunities, maintaining a multi-year purchased services opportunity pipeline, implement contract conversions, working with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to operationalize savings strategies, and monitoring post-implementation compliance to achieve annual purchased services savings goals

• Provides leadership support in the area of purchased services expense management
• Manage the Purchased Services contract portfolio to include but not limited to clinical and non-clinical services, technology, and other non-labor expense categories
• Effectively manage projects from beginning to end, translate objectives, execute outcomes, and present project deliverables to local and system managers, directors, and executives
• Design and manage the sourcing and contract management framework for all categories in the Purchased Services portfolio including new requests and renewals
• Develop and deploy an industry-leading Purchased Services playbook focused on Analytics, Strategy and requirements development, supplier negotiations, performance-based contract negotiation and value realization through structured business reviews
• Manage strategic supplier engagement and expand optimization efforts through development of high-performance contracts through integration of key performance indicators (KPIs) and structure business review process
• Collaborate with key stakeholders including Clinical / Non-Clinical leaders, physicians, executives, end-users, and others to define category specifications and acceptable service levels; work closely with leaders and key stakeholders to project category purchases and develop strategies to maintain and maximize spend management opportunities and timelines
• Achieve stakeholder support and collaboration through participation in cross-functional teams, engagement in conversations that expose core business and service objectives and sharing best practices for comprehensive success
• Assess and provide insights into purchased services expenses to guide and support HCA's sourcing workplan
• Manage purchased services project plan working with all key stakeholders to drive and implement savings for all identified purchased services categories
• Analyze purchased services data, make recommendations, and execute a course of action for implementing purchased services contracts
• Lead calls with relevant stakeholders to review and update active sourcing projects, etc.
• Track service contract execution, implementation, savings and supplier service levels on an on-going basis to ensure high quality service delivery and savings achieved

• Manage assigned contracting projects, including the completion and timely execution of contracted services that deliver high quality services and cost savings, including but not limited to:
• Prepare and distribute Request for Proposals (RFPs)
• Research and analyze vendors to be included in RFPs
• Evaluate proposals by developing your own analysis or oversee development of financial analysis and present contract recommendations
• Craft contract language working with Corporate Legal to finalize agreements
• Interacts and develops relationships with key stakeholders to better understand needs and challenges which may include clinicians, supply chain, and other hospital leadership
• Continuously defines and improves client solutions as it relates to the purchased services program

• Establishes and meets expense savings goals
• Organizes saving enhancement strategies for purchased services
• Develops standardized documents, processes, and calculations for use by the purchased services team to quantify purchased services savings solutions

• Directs multiple projects and tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Strong organization skills, including the ability to plan, implement, and execute
• The ability to focus and execute exceptional time management
• Demonstrates the ability to develop a project plan for major and complex projects
• Develops milestones for projects to determine outcomes are achieved that includes facilitating teams that lead to building consensus and contract implementation
• Track and reports all activities and milestones

• Demonstrates healthcare purchased…