Associate Principal, Spend Management (Texas)

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Summary:

In this role, you will act as a provider expert who champions, leads, and coordinates all spend management activity through the spend management delivery team's account planning process and activation of the SM-PMM (Spend Management, Partnership Management Methodology) where required. You will work with provider leadership across all Spend Management categories to understand priorities and build a workplan that aligns Vizient solutions to help solve problems, drive value, and grow the Vizient-provider relationship.

Responsibilities:

• Engage provider leadership around challenges specific to non-labor spend categories, demonstrating an understanding of healthcare supply chain, including industry trends and leading practices.

• Utilize Vizient insights and intelligence to bring ideas forward to highlight Vizient value, mitigate risk and to influence Providers in leveraging Vizient to help solve their spend management challenges.

• Lead the development and execution of account plans, project plans, and workplans by facilitating a collaborative process between provider stakeholders and Vizient resources.

• Provide mentorship for the team and promote peer collaboration across teams, setting positive cultural tones and sharing best practices.

• Develop, coordinate, and promote resource stewardship of spend management solutions, delivering influential value propositions to providers that drive strategic integration of tools and services.

• Interpret insights and intelligence and align findings to Provider priorities and leads spend management delivery team in making recommendations to Provider on category workplan initiatives; Presents benefits and return on investment derived from Vizient tools and solutions, ensuring provider value is realized.

• Oversight for activation of Provider spend management renewal strategy - partnering with Enterprise Team (where applicable) and Spend Management Sales & Solution Architects on financial modeling, upsells, managing scope approval, statement of work (SOW) generation, and invoicing activities.

• Drive member value within provider account plans by developing spend management roadmap and activating category strategy, pulling through new spend management opportunities within the defined territory.

• Conduct quarterly spend management business reviews and/or Project Reviews with supply chain, their executive leader, and other stakeholders to communicate project/roadmap progress, value delivered, and future opportunities.

• Participate with Enterprise Principal/MPP/PEC in Provider Executive Business Reviews.

• Weekly/biweekly engagement with Providers' strategic stakeholders across spend management categories to understand the problems they are working to solve, and their strategic financial and operational objectives.

• Work with product owners to develop and deliver provider education plans that enhance provider knowledge of the spend management services portfolio.

• Lead weekly/biweekly internal meetings for spend delivery team to collaborate and align on workplan progress.

• Facilitate internal accountability at Vizient to ensure a consistent Vizient delivery experience with the Provider. Work with an internal team of experts, custom contracting, outsourced resources, Vizient program representatives, advisors, etc. to ensure delivery integration.

• Enforce standards across all delivery resources for a One Vizient experience in areas such as data representation, meeting consistency, team alignment, data intake, all member interactions, etc.

• Has overall management of Provider account plan, workplan, and project plan.

• Maintain customer relationship management database activity updates for assigned territory (e.g., contact information, active opportunities, bookings, provider account plan updates, GAF) to achieve revenue goals.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred.

• 10 or more years of relevant healthcare experience required in either consulting, sales, or supply chain management.

• Proven track record in managing large strategic accounts required.

• Proven success in leading teams is required.

• Experience in solution selling preferred.

• Must be able to read financial reports and comprehend supply chain and group purchasing processes.

• Must be proficient with all MS Office Products.

• Candidates residing within the state of Texas are preferred.

• Willingness to travel

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

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