Richmond, Virginia
Client Supply Chain Manager Job Opening in Richmond, Virginia - Client Supply Chain Manager
The Company
Accumen is a leading healthcare transformation company that provides end-to-end services and laboratory solutions in consulting execution, utilization and outreach support. Partnering with clients, Accumen provides a unique value proposition to health systems. Our innovative approach helps health systems and associated physician groups retain control of the continuum of care, and achieve measurable improvements in lab excellence and efficiency through a comprehensive approach to people, process, and technology that both optimizes and modernizes hospital lab operations.
Laboratories can be so much more than a transactional support service; the laboratory is a strategic component of your hospital?s value-based care model. We work by bringing capacity and capability through a leveraged execution model that maximizes value while reducing costs.
Working alongside your health system Accumen helps you think about your lab strategically to create a high performing lab through a value-driven model. We work side by side with our clients, dedicating ourselves to creating healthier labs, hospitals, and communities.
Grow Outreach and Improve Physician Alignment by expanding hospital laboratory business, increasing utilization of laboratory assets, and strengthening the opportunity for physician-hospital integrated care.
Implement Comprehensive Patient Blood Management and Utilization by instituting an end-to-end blood program to drive better patient outcomes, utilize less blood, and reduce overall blood spend.
Achieve Integrated Lab Supply Chain by simplifying your service model, minimizing inventory and create effective material management processes and all while not compromising the lab?s ability to perform tests or produce timely results.
Utilize Accumen Technology?, our suite of innovative technology solutions enabling real-time results and actionable insights that drive high performance.
Drive Laboratory Efficiency by applying targeted initiatives that optimize, modernize, and consolidate lab resources and enhance productivity and performance.
Quality and Service Improvement by establishing stakeholder performance metrics, utilizing operational methods and strategies that support clinical and service quality.
The Accumen team consists of professionals with diverse backgrounds with deep specialized skills. A multitude of backgrounds allows Accumen to deliver innovative thinking and diverse experience when partnering with our clients. Accumen leadership develops and executes solutions that solve modern healthcare lab challenges and position labs for a greater role in healthcare delivery and extend their reach into local healthcare markets.
Accumen has over 150 health system and hospital clients, including five large health systems, and works with each of these clients to optimize and modernize their laboratories. These systems are innovative not-for-profit, education, for-profit health systems, and regional associations that have an interest in improving financial and clinical performance while expanding continuity of care in their community.
With $1 Billion in lab spend under management, Accumen will be the key player in the $65 Billion hospital lab industry by delivering value to health systems through a comprehensive approach to managing their laboratories.
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We are actively searching for a Client Supply Chain Manager
The Role
The Client Supply Chain Management Manager (SCM) is a key player in delivering on Quality, Cost and Growth objectives of our client. She/he will provide expertise in and oversight of complex laboratory supply chain projects and initiatives to deliver maximum value creation for our clients. The SCM will also participate in broader initiatives to drive supply chain wins on a corporate-wide basis. Projects typically involve technology, capital equipment, capacity analysis, process and organizational change initiatives focused on quality by design, laboratory product and process development, lean manufacturing, quality and regulatory, supply chain strategy and optimization.
Responsibilities
Execution of Supply Chain Management process, and organizational and technical activities.
Understand client's business needs and lead the efforts in developing a business strategy, operating model and process definitions to address the business issues.
He/she will be involved in improving SCM operational metrics, business case development and performance measurement.
Manage competitive sourcing processes, RFP?s, supplier selection, and contracting processes.
Conduct market analysis; evaluate demand pooling opportunities and effectively synchronize supply with demand.
Improve the supply chain performance through improved supply chain planning practices.
Educational
Bachelor?s Degree and an advanced degree in a relevant business, engineering or science major preferred or equivalent experience.
Professional Qualifications
Experience in project management with multiple full lifecycle Supply Chain Strategy engagements.
Success in strategic sourcing and contracts, production planning/capital analysis.
Proficiency in the use of technology to measure and improve efficiencies and collaboration.
Proven experience in operational improvements, business case development, change management, and performance measurements
Position Competencies
Stakeholder Orientation: Demonstrates a keen understanding of client needs, expectations, and business concerns; recognizes and expresses potential outcomes of a decision, situation or issue; ability to influence outcomes and people?s opinions with facts
Change Management: Ability to present compelling analysis, compelling action in an environment resistant to change.
Initiative: Goes beyond expectations in the assignment, task, or job description without being asked
Planning and Organization: Establishes a systematic course of action for self or others to ensure accomplishment of a specific objective
Communication : Recognizes and uses appropriate channels of communication (face-to-face, email, phone) to express ideas effectively
Analytical Agility: Ability to telescope analysis between cause, action and result, and provide business insight and recommendations based on learnings
Critical thinking and Problem Solving: Presents problem analysis and recommended solution to others rather than just identifying or describing the problem itself
Equal Opportunity Employer
Job Type: Full-time
Required experience:
Supply Chain Management: 5 years
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