HCS Director Value Analysis
UNC Health Care
**Description**
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**Summary:**
Reporting to the HCS Executive Director of Supply Chain, the Director of Value Analysis is responsible for leading efforts to identify, evaluate and implement opportunities to reduce unnecessary clinical supply variation, decrease costs, increase revenue, and improve quality as Director of the system-wide Value Analysis function. Provides day to day administrative leadership for the Value Analysis team. Provides category expertise across a variety of spend and operational categories.
Facilitates and maintains system-wide Value Analysis committees across major spend/usage categories that foster collaboration between Supply Chain, clinical staff, and hospital administrative leaders. Supports organizational margin contribution (cost management) and operational improvement objectives through the identification and implementation of sourcing and contracting initiatives that promote product standardization, contract consolidation and other levers of financial, operational, and clinical-usage optimization. Establishes and maintains relationships with key UNC Health System stakeholders (physicians, clinicians, leadership) and vendor partners.
**Responsibilities:**
Manages department labor force, employee development (corrective action, performance evaluations, etc.) and operational budget. Supports executive Supply Chain leadership in annual budgeting planning, development of strategic goals/KPIs. Monitors department performance to goals, budget and other strategic objectives.
Works to achieve system objectives for clinical Value Analysis teams in relation to goals set for standardization/cost reduction in physician-preference and other product categories. Facilitates the standardization of products and opportunities to optimize supply utilization through effective collaboration with physicians, clinicians and administrators.
Provides oversight and leadership to Value Analysis committees, ensuring proper representation from system facilities, encouraging participation of hospital leaders and clinicians, fostering collaboration, and ensuring that defined Value Analysis processes are followed.
Supports Value Analysis implementations at the system and hospital level. Develops an oversight process based on factors such as value, difficulty, organizational significance, etc.
Assists clinical and Supply Chain operations as needed in implementation of new product/technology requests.
Facilitates complex meetings and discussions that include operational executives, physicians, clinical and Supply Chain leadership, and representatives from Finance.
Refines Value Analysis team charters, membership guidelines, product evaluation processes, etc. as needed.
Develops/monitors departmental metrics to facilitate process improvement, system performance, and the measurement of impact of Value Analysis initiatives.
Interfaces with system facilities and assists them in cost effectively satisfying their supply, service and support needs. Effectively communicates supply chain’s strategies and successfully elicit support and assistance in implementing those strategies.
Develop policies and procedures that maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the department. Ensures all proper internal controls are in place to satisfy internal and external regulatory requirements. Assist to develop and monitor departmental operating budgets.
Serves as a leader on the system Value Analysis oversight board. Works with other Supply Chain and clinical leaders to craft appropriate response strategies to supply shortages, major back orders, recalls, FDA warnings, etc.
Responsible for management of vendor rebate programs, providing tracking of all rebates using a database, and working with the Treasury department to ensure money is distributed properly.
Provides oversight of system recall management process, including supervision of recall manager.
Works with team to maintain a sourcing pipeline/master schedule of year over year planned product sourcing initiatives.
**Other Information**
**Education Requirements:**
● Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate discipline.
**Licensure/Certification Requirements:**
● No licensure or certification required.
**Professional Experience Requirements:**
● If a Bachelor's degree: Seven (7) years of experience in Value Analysis and/or clinical work, including three (3) years of experience in a supervisory role.
● If an Associate's degree: Eleven (11) years of experience in Value Analysis and/or clinical work, including three (3) years of experience in a supervisory role.
● If a High School diploma or GED: Fifteen (15) years of experience in Value Analysis and/or clinical work, including three (3) years of experience in a supervisory role.
**Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:**
● Ability to apply critical decision making, and tailored communications, in a wide variety of complex business scenarios. Strong leadership capability, executing as appropriate in the areas of responsibility. Knowledge of budget planning, financial management and resource management. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Clinical experience (or equivalent knowledge from clinically-adjacent role) strongly preferred.
**Job Details**
Legal Employer: NCHEALTH
Entity: Shared Services
Organization Unit: Sourcing and Contracting
Work Type: Full Time
Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
Work Assignment Type: Hybrid
Work Schedule: Day Job
Location of Job: US:NC:Durham
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes
This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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