Healthcare Consulting Senior Director, Supply Chain Automation

About Huron

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Role of a Senior Director

Senior Directors represent the pinnacle of consulting success at Huron, creating a high-performance environment and inspiring the respect of clients and engagement teams alike. Through strong leadership and unmatched industry expertise, they ensure Huron’s success and shape the industry as a whole. They model and instill in others Huron values as well as personal commitment and integrity.

A key function Senior Directors carry out is to serve as engagement leaders, working closely with client senior leaders and directing the Huron team to ensure the overall success of the project. They successfully close new business, deliver sales and industry presentations, participate in negotiations, and close contracts for new work. They also cultivate lasting, trusted advisor business relationships which bring forth positive references, translating to new revenue.

The roles Senior Directors play require considerable responsibility and, as a result, offer great personal reward.

True excellence begins at the top with leaders dedicated to producing lasting, positive results. Let’s get to work – together.

Responsibilities for the Healthcare Consulting Senior Director, Supply Chain Automation

• Identify, design, and drive intelligent automation solutions to develop and implement strategies for supply chain cost reduction and efficiency.
• Leverage automated solutions to optimize the review of purchased services, clinical supplies, and GPO contracts.
• Collaborate with clinical teams to streamline procurement of clinical supplies and physician preference items using technology.
• Participate in the development and implementation of intelligent automation tools to drive best practices in inventory management.
• Design and oversee automated inventory management systems to maintain optimal stock levels.
• Assist in developing proposals and presentations for potential clients, highlighting technological efficiencies.
• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, focusing on technology-driven initiatives.
• Communicate progress and outcomes of supply chain improvements to executive leadership.
• Lead cross-functional teams to achieve organizational goals through innovative solutions.
• Identify and implement intelligent automation opportunities to streamline internal supply chain methodologies with a focus on improving quality and reducing the cost to deliver.
• Identify third-party solutions and relationships to accelerate supply chain intelligent automation through partnerships and potential acquisitions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in healthcare supply chain management and consulting.
• Proven track record of designing supply chain intelligent automation solutions to achieve cost reductions and process improvements.
• Strong knowledge of GPOs, clinical supplies, physician preference items, and purchased / support services.
• Experience with current and evolving inventory management systems and automation technologies within the Healthcare and Supply Chain industries.
• Experience with developing automated or AI solutions to meet internal or client needs, Data Science or Engineering experience preferred.
• Experience with Large Language Models and their use in the healthcare industry.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Key Skills/Competency

• Healthcare Supply Chain Management
• Intelligent Automation
• Cost Reduction Strategy
• Process Improvement
• GPO Contracts
• Clinical Supplies Procurement
• Inventory Management Systems
• AI/Machine Learning
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Stakeholder Engagement