Strategic Pharmacy Sourcing Manager

Job Summary:

Lead the creation, execution and management of comprehensive sourcing strategies for Pharmacy's clinical and non-clinical supplies and services. Ensures lowest total cost of ownership through managed demand, utilization, and optimal pricing. Negotiate, benchmark, implement, and monitor large scale

acquisitions, contracts, and product portfolios to ensure Jefferson Health takes full advantage of value based, state of the art medications, devices, and opportunities.

Support cross-functional project teams and develop and leverage supplier partnerships, Jefferson Health relationships, and group purchasing organization (GPO) contracts to meet business requirements to create sustainable solutions that maximize cost effectiveness for the enterprise and support its strategic direction.

Lead the creation, execution and management of comprehensive sourcing strategies for Pharmacy's clinical and non-clinical supplies and services. Ensures lowest total cost of ownership through managed demand, utilization, and optimal pricing. Negotiate, benchmark, implement, and monitor large scale

acquisitions, contracts, and product portfolios to ensure Jefferson Health takes full advantage of value based, state of the art medications, devices, and opportunities.

Essential Functions:

Support cross-functional project teams and develop and leverage supplier partnerships, Jefferson Health relationships, and group purchasing organization (GPO) contracts to meet business requirements to create sustainable solutions that maximize cost effectiveness for the enterprise and support its strategic direction.

Manages all stages of sourcing process from situation analysis, business requirements gathering, market research and intelligence, strategy creation, request for proposal, negotiation, award, implementation, and budgetary compliance.

Supports strategic supplier relationships through establishment and measurement of KPIs and other performance measures to deliver enterprise-wide cost optimization and maintain focus on pioneering, innovate products and services

Highly organized, self-motivated decision-maker working with minimal supervision and able to manage multiple priorities

Assist business in identifying trends for performance improvement, including business capture, operational efficiencies and cost reduction. Perform other responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in business is required. Master's Degree is preferred
• Five to seven years of progressively responsible experience in purchasing, contract management or materials management setting
• Three years or greater of experience working in a healthcare or pharmaceutical setting preferred
• C.P.M. from the Institute for Supply Management, Inc. or a CMRP certification from the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management of the American Hospital Association is preferred
• Employee must have excellent communications, interpersonal, analytical, time management, and organizational skills as well as multi-tasking abilities.
• Familiarity and experience with accepted purchasing practices and concepts.
• Strong background in analyzing and reviewing price documents and researching product/service sourcing and options.

Closing Statement

About Jefferson

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University , home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health , nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.