Senior Analyst, Supply Chain Applications

Ardent Health Services (AHS) is a national health care services company headquartered in Nashville, TN. Through its subsidiaries, Ardent owns and operates nearly 200 sites of care. Our subsidiaries own and operate hospitals and multispecialty physician practices in six states. Ardent includes 30 hospitals, 4,423 patient beds, 23,000 employees, and 1,700 employed physicians. Within the industry, we are noted for recognizing that every hospital is as unique as the community it serves. This in-depth understanding of how health care works at the local level is one of our great strengths.

POSITION SUMMARY

The overall responsibility of the Senior Analyst, Supply Chain Applications is to provide functional support, design, instruction, oversight and guidance of the supply chain applications to enable the achievement of success in the Ardent business operation. These responsibilities include but are not limited to: developing system strategies with management and other stakeholders, conducting business needs analyses, identifying and mitigating project risks, supporting the applications users and assisting in the implementation of financial application projects.

• Provides system expertise facilitating ongoing analysis, maintenance, technical and functional support for application suite.
• Develops functional requirements, specifications and system design for business requests.
• Develops or oversees the development of system documentation, user manuals and training for application suite.
• Leads testing efforts and ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
• Evaluates current state processes and identifies gaps to future state process around utilization of applications to maximize departmental and organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Prioritizes and resolves issues.
• Exhibits confidence and an extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems.
• Effectively lead project work by applying project standards and enforcing project deadlines and schedules.
• Develops and fosters relationships with business stakeholders to manage expectations effectively, introduce innovative solutions and increase customer satisfaction.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent business experience, required in IT, Accounting, Finance or Procurement
• 5 years experience in Supply Chain IT functions
• Heavy Procurement/Financials background from discovery, setup/system configuration, testing, implementation and post go live support.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Proficient knowledge of Infor/Lawson
• Experience with MSCM.
• Healthcare experience.