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Description

This position is incentive eligible.

Introduction

Are you looking for a work environment where diversity and inclusion thrive? Submit your application for our Senior Manager Contracts opening with HealthTrust today and find out what it truly means to be a part of the HCA Healthcare team.

Benefits

HealthTrust, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.

• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.

• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing

• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock

• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.

• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more

• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts

• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships

• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)

• Colleague recognition program

• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)

• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

We are seeking a Senior Manager Contracts for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Senior Manager Contracts is responsible for negotiating industry leading national agreements for HCA focused on the Lab Services, Equipment and Expense. Objective is to ensure best in class industry pricing and contract terms and conditions. Position's key area of focus will be sourcing initiatives that are primarily categories with low to medium spend, complexity, risk and sensitivity. Position may have some responsibility for other types of categories for the purposes of development and workload allocation. Individual must possess knowledge or prior experience in principles and concepts related to sourcing and contract management.

Individual has knowledge of the industry or organization, processes, suppliers, customers, and contract terms/conditions. Individual will follow standard practices and policies in analyzing situations and data and solve a range of straightforward problems. Individual demonstrates project leadership for back office team members (legal, contract administration, etc.).

What you will do in this role:

Project Management:

• Ability to plan and execute project timelines for assigned categories, with guidance from manager. Must have:

• Demonstrated level of organizational ability and attention to detail

• Ability to translate objectives into project planning priorities, create and manage work plans and timelines for multiple projects and priorities, and finalize negotiations in the time-frame designated for the project

• Ability to be highly efficient and productive without sacrificing quality

Category Knowledge:

Understanding or aptitude to learn the product categories assigned and how end-users interface with the products.

Understanding or demonstrated ability to learn in-depth aspects of portfolio:

• Product features and benefits

• Product comparisons between supplier offerings

• Operational impact to provider

• Interpretation and use of market information provided by global sourcing team

• Future product pipe-line and impact on market

• Interpretation of current and new FDA 510k filings

Supplier Knowledge:

Individual must be able to develop and use knowledge about supplier to develop strategies, create leverage, mitigate risks, anticipate direction of the market and potential supplier direction.

Includes, but not limited to:

• Discuss future product pipelines with suppliers

• Review current or future technology

• Investigate new supplier entrants to market

• Future product pipe-line and impact on market

Strategy Development, Validation, and Risk Mitigation:

The individual will develop the strategy with the guidance of their manager and in collaboration with HCA Lab Services. Individual will seek guidance of manager for risk issues and agreed upon risk mitigation strategies. For these categories, the individual will develop the strategy, identify risks, and develop a risk mitigation plan. Individual will present that information to their manager for discussion and approval.

Sourcing Process:

• Thorough understanding and accountability for the sourcing process for their assigned portfolio. Including market research, bid preparation, RFI, Strategy Development & Validation, RFP, Contract Negotiations, and contract launch.

• Supplier and Customer Relationship Management:

• Oversee supplier relationship during the sourcing process. Participate in supplier business reviews and review new products/technologies as they arise in assigned categories.

• Build strong relationships with senior level supplier contacts.

Customer:

• Build strong customer relationships through frequent interaction (all levels, including executive).

• Communications:

• Communications are primarily focused on effective and efficient communications with internal stakeholders and suppliers, with limited communication to customers.

Major communications include:

• Facilitate conversations with internal functional team during project kick-off to gather feedback, opinions, and alignment of resource needs to meet contracting initiative timelines

• Communication of bid process, negotiation status, agreement on terms, financial proposal concerns and other matters with supplier and internal team

• Engaging customers through one-on-one conversations to articulate business strategy and resolve customer specific issues/concerns with contracting strategy or outcome.

Collaboration:

Collaboration required with functional team throughout sourcing process:

• With legal staff on development and finalization of contract

• With financial analysts on assessing supplier proposals

• With board leads on meeting with advisory boards

• With contract analysts on product/price loading of awarded agreements

• With communications on contract launch/implementation

Financial & Operational Goals:

Meet/exceed financial & operational goals in the annual contracting plan.

Policies & Procedures:

Maintain timely achievement of all assigned sourcing initiatives ensuring activities adhere to all established policies and procedures and standards of business conduct.

Customer Service:

• Resolve supplier and/or customer issues, as escalated by Portfolio Specialist.

• Maintain strong customer relationships and build trust and respect by consistently meeting or exceeding customer expectations. Customers are internal and external.

• Work with HealthTrust audit team to assist and facilitate engagement and finalization of audit projects.

Change Management:

Act as a champion for business process change, organizational change, and cultural change. May include leading process improvement or training initiatives.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Must have strong analytical skills with the ability to create or interpret potentially complex financial models

• Maintain grace under pressure while displaying a high level of professionalism

• Align internal and external resources to achieve objectives

• Pay attention to details

• Work effectively as part of a team

• Comprehend, and interpret complex instructions, proposals, and contract language

• Listen and separate ancillary information from the primary content being communicated, ask appropriate questions to clarify and confirm understanding

• Excellent oral, written communication skills, and presentation skills

• Solid knowledge of all MS Office Products, proficient in the use of Excel, Word and PowerPoint

What qualifications you will need:

• Accredited College Bachelor's Degree required (Supply Chain, Healthcare, Business, Finance)

• 3+ years of relevant work experience preferred. Ideal candidate will have experience in strategic sourcing and negotiating a variety of contracts in the [Insert Contracting Area].

• Strategic sourcing

• Contract negotiation

• Contract management

• Supply chain operations

• Materials management/ purchasing

• Contracting financial analysis

• Healthcare knowledge is a plus

HealthTrust Supply Chain (https://healthtrustpg.com/) is a critical part of HCA Healthcare's strategy. Our focus is to improve performance and reduce costs. We do this by joining non-clinical and administrative functions. HealthTrust Supply Chain best practice methodologies. We develop, apply and monitor cost-efficient initiatives and programs for HCA Healthcare. By improving facility efficiency, medical professionals can focus on our mission - patient care.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Across HCA Healthcare’s more than 2,000 sites of care, our nurses and colleagues have a positive impact on patients, communities and healthcare.

Together, we uplift and elevate our purpose to give people a healthier tomorrow."- Jane Englebright, PhD, RN CENP, FAAN

Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Senior Manager Contracts opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.