Principal, Spend Management Healthcare Solutions Planner

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Summary:

In the role, you will design cost performance improvement solutions to align customer priorities to Vizient’s spend management strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Vizient Spend Management BU Leadership and the sales & delivery teams to uncover hospital and healthcare system customer needs, align Vizient solutions, and design comprehensive engagements that leverage Vizient’s spend management solutions.

• Serve as the Spend Management subject matter expert to the Enterprise in the solution and design of spend management partnerships for existing members and new member recruitment.

• Cultivate meaningful relationships with member organizations.

• Perform achievement of goals through supporting renewal and new business development opportunities, managing profitability and margin in assigned activities.

• Advance the commercialization of each category strategy; measurable, meaningful pipeline opportunities in each category.

• Create and deliver high-quality, strategy-aligned presentations and proposals to C-level and other executives.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred. Advanced degree preferred.

• 10 or more years experience in category expertise/ spend management or customer solutions experience required. 

• Services or consulting sales experience required.

• General management, leadership, and people management experience required.

• Experience working with health system C-Suite providers is required.

• Category subject matter expertise preferred in areas of healthcare non-labor expense management, supply chain, pharmacy, medical device, purchased services / indirect spend, or capital equipment.

• Experience working with clinical departments that interact with supply chain preferred.

• A high degree of client interaction, and commercially oriented experience are needed.

• Demonstrate a strategic and solution design mindset.

• Experience working both independently and as part of a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.

• Possess excellent communication skills.

• Ability to travel regularly and expeditiously throughout the year to meet clients’ needs and timetables.

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Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

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