Senior Director Category Management Pharmacy and Children’s Health

Job Description

Our employees, whom we call “caregivers”, take pride in and live our mission of Helping People Live the Healthiest Lives Possible. Our Category Management & GPO Relations Senior Director leads a team of engaged caregivers to provide the best possible experience for our customer and supplier stakeholders. In this role, you are responsible for the Pharmacy and Children’s Health Category Management team and own the strategic relationship with the GPO partner with span of control of roughly 20-40 caregivers.

This leader must reside in the greater Salt Lake City area or be willing to relocate to strengthen collaboration, visibility, and alignment with enterprise initiatives.

Along with offering a chance to work in a stable, strong, mission-based environment, this role provides the opportunity to experience the Mountain West’s diverse culture and incredible landscapes. You’ll be able to explore abundant outdoor recreational opportunities, including skiing, hiking, and fishing, as well as stunning national parks and forests, all within hours of where you’ll call home. Becoming a part of the Intermountain team means gaining a family and finding a place to plant your roots.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind, and spiritual well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling, and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

With this position, you are eligible to participate in an annual pay-for-performance opportunity (“AP4P”). This plan enables Intermountain Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The AP4P opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected Intermountain Health Board-approved goals.

To show our commitment to you and assist with your transition into our organization, we may offer a sign-on and/or a relocation bonus when applicable.

The Senior Director of Category Management owns the operational performance metrics, internal improvement initiatives, development of standards and consistent work product templates, and the productivity outputs of the Category Management team and the GPO partnership.

As the Senior Director, you are responsible for the daily managerial and strategic aspects of the Category Management teams with the greatest GPO portfolios to effectively manage all non-labor spend of the company. The Senior Director will effectively and regularly communicate with, coach, train, and develop the Category Management team to enhance and leverage the team's talents and abilities. This position will lead and manage a team of supply chain professionals, will work within the Procurement Supply Chain Organization (SCO) function, cross-functionally, with other hospital organizations, and with the broader SCO to meet goals and improve processes and outcomes. The successful Senior Director will leverage prior work experience to advance the strategic GPO partnership in order to drive maximum savings on the $1.6B+ of Intermountain Health (IH) annual GPO spend, ensure IH meets our contractually binding compliance spend thresholds, influence the GPO portfolio strategic direction for IH benefit, and to represent IH for strategic projects to enhance the value of the GPO for the broader membership with IH as an industry leader among peers.

As the Senior Director of Category Management, you will

• Have strong, positive, engaging people management skills that will drive change management and continuous improvement efforts with the unilateral ability to handle tough situations in accordance with corporate policies
• Manage, support and maintain final decision rights on contracting deliverables, deadlines, and contract terms and conditions while ensuring customer satisfaction
• Interpret and analyze data, then use this insight to develop strategies and tactics which will influence suppliers for contract offerings. Must have an analytical approach and way of thinking, and an interest in quantitative data.
• Initiate continuous quality improvement by evaluating and enhancing the operations of the division to provide efficient and responsive reports and services to internal and external customers.
• Have end-to-end project management capabilities for the high-visibility projects that need executive oversight to ensure that the anticipated goals and objectives are being met.
• Be responsible for accuracy and completeness of internal and external communications to provide maximum supplier awareness and utilization.
• Present industry information clearly and effectively to suppliers, members, company executives and department team members.
• In conjunction with Human Resources, maintain a high-performance work environment.
• Travel as required and participates in organization programs and events which are valuable to organization growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field is required
• Highly prefer prior PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Manager), pharmacy operations, and/or payer contracting and payer negotiations experience. Background in limited distribution and specialty drug negotiations experience is a plus.
• Experience leading large-scale procurement teams (3-5 years of managing 10+ employees including managing of people managers), proficient capability with GPO operations, integration, and collaboration, mastery of procurement multiple functions (Category Management, GPO relations, Contracting, Purchasing, Sourcing) is required
• Mastery of operationalizing and coaching large teams, establishing operating model structures, standardizing processes, facilitating transformational change management, and communications
• Have a proven talent to lead a team of professionals to effectively achieve the organization’s goals and objectives Superior proven analytical, problem solving, interpersonal, and communication skills required.
• Proven decision-making, communication, and leadership skills
• Ability and drive work towards best in class processes to deliver significant financial, quality, and service results
• Demonstrated negotiation, customer service, and collaboration skills
• Capability in motivating a team, public speaking, leveraging data, and adoption of technology

Preferred Qualifications

• A master’s degree preferred or additional 5 years’ experience at similar management level
• Experience in leading teams through strategic planning for categories of spend
• Experience in Procurement Transformation
• Experience in fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Experience with effectively aligning stakeholder goals in complex environment to develop long-term strategies

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Location

Supply Chain Center

Work City

Midvale

Work State

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$78.66 - $121.47

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here .

By applying for a position with Intermountain, I acknowledge that I will comply with all applicable Intermountain policies and expectations. If applying for a remote or hybrid role, this includes remote work expectations related to confidentiality, information security, work schedules, conflicts of interest, and use of company equipment. I further acknowledge that outside employment or activities may not interfere with job responsibilities or create a conflict of interest with Intermountain. Actual or reasonably perceived conflicts may be grounds for disqualification from consideration or, if hired, corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

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