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Responsible for directing the overall purchasing function, including managerial administrative responsibilities for University of Michigan Health (UMH) across the state.  Acts as a liaison between UMH Supply Chain, Hospital System and Regional Finance, Campus Business and Finance, Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Clinical Affairs, and the University?s academic enterprise.  Position is ultimately responsible for the legal and business content of the agreements completed by the Contracts and Procurement staff which require compliance with University Regental rules, State of Michigan rules and regulatory requirements of the Federal Government. These agreements encompass system, regional, and local agreements needed to advance our tripartite mission for the entire statewide health system.  This position acts as a Contracting Specialist for the most complex and sensitive agreements needed for the organization.  This role is responsible for developing and refining contracting and sourcing policies and procedures and works with other supply chain leaders to set contracting strategy in alignment with health system goals.  This role is responsible for implementing changes in strategy and facilitates redesign of purchasing agent roles and responsibilities and policies and procedures across all the contracting and purchasing functions across the state.

SIGNING LIMIT ? Unlimited Years and up to $5,000,000 per agreement

This role reports to the Senior Director for Sourcing

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally.  Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

The aim of Michigan Medicine is to advance health to serve Michigan and the world. With annual revenues of approximately $5.0 billion, Michigan Medicine ranks as one of the top academic health centers in the country, and is committed to providing exceptional patient care, facilitating groundbreaking research, and developing the next generation of physicians and scientists. Michigan Medicine consists of the University of Michigan Hospitals, the University of Michigan Medical School and its Medical Group, Michigan Health Corporation, and affiliated health systems.

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world’s most distinguished academic health systems.  In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.

What Benefits can you Look Forward to?

• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
• 2:1 Match on retirement savings

• Collaborates with stakeholders on the acquisition of goods and services including advising them on the appropriate course of action per SPG 507.01.
• Manages bid events, RFQ, RFP, RFI and Sole Source Acquisitions per SPG 507.01.
• Recommends overall contracting strategies and negotiates legal and business terms in UMH Agreements to support goals of the requester in alignment with contracting and regulatory requirements for UMH and University of Michigan and strategy for the health system.
• Collaborates with Legal, Risk Management, Compliance, and other support departments as necessary to complete contracting activities.
• Collaborates with departments outside of Procurement, like HITS, Information Assurance, Infection Control and Regulatory Affairs to ensure contracts conform with organizational priorities and other regulatory or compliance requirements.
• Reviews purchasing, contract, and supplier engagement requests to determine any additional oversight needed by other key area of the health system and ensures that those groups are including in routing and signoff of any agreement.
• Develops routing documentation to support engagements following SPG 507.01 rules to obtain the appropriate signature on the agreement when projects are outside of their signing authority.
• Engages with UMHS stakeholder departments across the state enterprise to solve problems related to existing or future contracts.  This often takes the form of mediating disputes between UMH Stakeholders and Vendors, including assessing and recommending appropriate actions to resolve the dispute.
• Engages with Shared Services and other stakeholder departments on payment issues to prevent or resolve credit holds that could negatively impact patient care.
• Engages with department stakeholders, suppliers, UMH Value Analysis, Vizient (Group Purchasing Organization business partner) and other data sources on strategic sourcing cost reduction initiatives and to formulate effective contracting strategies to support. Contracting strategies may involve approach to product selection, volume commitments and product variety reduction.  Data analysis may be required to identify and verify savings and contracting strategies.
• Engages with clinical and administrative stakeholders to review and estimate impact of new product, technology, or services requests against current contracts and sourcing and contracting strategies. This includes analyzing and reporting the downstream impact of requests for new products or services against other UMH contracts relative to the introduction of new products.   These impacts address potential deterioration of spend on committed contracts for similar items that can impact pricing on the committed contracts, potentially increasing cost to UMH. 
• Delegates and prioritizes works of seniors PAs and their commodity/purchased services groups to ensure execution of all PA activities.  Supervises and executes daily plan for senior procurement agents and their teams.
• Creates procurement process plans and work assignments for procurement agents assigned to across all teams.  Procurement agent seniors meets regularly to review work assignments, prioritize, and distribute work to the full team.
• Approves and implements changes to work assignments and processes recommended by senior procurement agents or required to meet regental and other regulatory requirements.
• Mentors Procurement Agents Seniors, Intermediates and Associates and work within their teams to educate stakeholders and other UMH departments on the University Procurement Process.
• Develops and nurtures customer relationship across multiple complex clinical areas and other key stakeholder and leadership groups.

Direct Supervision of the following Position titles

• Procurement Agent Associate
• Procurement Agent Intermediate
• Procurement Agent Senior
• Procurement Agent Lead/Specialist

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and ten years of related experience, including supervision and leadership in supply chain management.
• Significant experience negotiating and facilitating highly complex agreements across all categories of spend.
• Demonstrated success using A3 problem solving and other Lean concepts.
• Demonstrated experience in executing a portfolio of agreements for a clinical area or stakeholder department.
• Ability to provide contractual and risk guidance and leadership to technical staff and clinical and executive leadership based on area of specialty.
• Knowledge of contractor compliance issues and procedures, as applicable to a public institution.
• Ability to assess contract compliance and product/service quality.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills and the ability to work effectively with external contracting executives at all levels.
• Advanced knowledge of health care or public sector contracting procedures, specifications, and documentation requirements.
• Demonstrated experience and commitment to Servant Leadership
• Demonstrated success using data driven decision making and outcomes-based performance.
• Demonstrated success crafting, refining, and implementing contracting and sourcing strategies and related policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to manage people, build teams and communicate effectively.
• Demonstrated success managing aligning priorities for teams.
• Demonstrated use of business and management principles, leadership strategies, and strategic planning.
• Demonstrated knowledge of economic and accounting principles, along with forecasting and analyzing operational and financial information.
• Significant academic medical center provider or GPO contracting and sourcing experiencing.
• Demonstrated experience developing and growing strategic supply relationship beyond a transactional lens.

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

What Benefits can you Look Forward to?

• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
• Flexible spending accounts
• Prescription drug plan
• Mental and emotional health programs
• Child care resources
• Life insurance
• Legal services plan
• 2:1 match on 401K

Another reason to go Blue!

• Nationally recognized for work/life effectiveness by WorldatWork
• Top 5 employer in Michigan by Crain's Detroit Business
• Forbes #1 Best Employer in Michigan
• Ranked #17 in the US and best in Michigan "Best Hospitals" rankings for 2022-2023
• Three medical specialties ranked in the nation's top 10 and was ranked No 1 in the state of Michigan
• Michigan Medicine ranked in the Top 40 in Newsweek's "World's Best Hospitals" rankings

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings.  Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.  The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.