Over the last decade, we set out to be the world's greatest dialysis company, and over the next decade, we are on unwavering pursuit of a healthier tomorrow. When you join the DaVita Village, you are joining a winning team. Through our commitment to training, growth, and quality, we consistently achieve superior clinical outcomes while allowing teammates to excel in an award-winning environment that enables them to thrive professionally and personally.
DaVita’s procurement team, PRISM (Procurement, Risk reduction, Innovation, and Supply Management), is on a multi-year journey of transforming our procurement / supply-chain / strategic sourcing process to be the best for our patients and partners and is looking for an innovative leader with Vendor Management experience to join our leadership team.
The Senior Director, Supply Network Risk & Vendor Management will report directly to the VP of Procurement. In this Vital role, you will primarily be responsible for proactively identifying and mitigating supply chain risks to enable supply continuity, driving supply chain resiliency and process improvement in alignment with company financial forecasts, and insulating the Village from critical supply risk. You will enable this by overseeing the development of standard work, tools, metrics, and processes to guide your teams’ work. You will also enable your team to quickly identify issues and underlying root causes, plan, and track countermeasures, and coordinate cross-functionally to pull in the correct resources to solve problems. Additionally - you will stand up a Vendor Management Office (VMO) team that provides oversight of key vendors, monitors vendors to ensure compliance with company policies, provides regular communications to senior leadership, and participates in key initiatives and partners with internal customers and vendors for process improvement. The position requires a deep understanding of vendor management best practices, systems, and policies and the use of data to implement those practices to drive enhanced economic value to the company.
Responsibilities:
The following duties and responsibilities generally reflect the expectations of this position but are not intended to be all-inclusive.
Technical Skills
Deep functional expertise in one of the following areas:
Logistics & Distribution
Inventory Management
Risk & Resiliency
Demand Planning
Strong ability to develop integrated supply network strategies and programs involving supplier partnership, tier-II supplier sourcing, inventory visibility, logistics, and distribution
Strong business financial acumen.
Oversee development and implementation of standard work, tools, metrics, and processes to guide work and ensure standardization of data, process, and reporting across the team.
Lead the identification and implementation of a proactive supply-network monitoring and mapping software solution for critical supplies.
Manage continued development and improvement of DaVita’s Supplier Risk Index to improve our ability to identify and mitigate future critical supply risks. proactively
Identify internal process issues that directly / indirectly impact the vendor’s ability to supply timely.
Manage large-scale distribution projects and partner on change management
Present project updates to executive steering committees and other key stakeholder groups
Ensure communication and coordination between the Supply Network & VMO team and other support functions to resolve issues, share best practices, and optimize processes
Build, lead, and motivate a high-performing team
Performance metrics and reporting: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to monitor supply network performance. Prepare regular reports and presentations to communicate performance results, identify areas for improvement, and support strategic decision-making.
VMO Responsibility:
Build and lead the establishment of a vendor management office in the Village by providing long-term vision and execution strategies from hiring and training talent to driving VMO initiatives.
Define and activate the VMO operating model, including RACI and interaction model that outlines how the VMO works with external and internal partners.
Lead a team focused on day-to-day vendor engagement, escalations, identifying new opportunities with business partners, and reporting on and managing vendor performance.
Create, maintain, and lead the delivery of policies, standards, procedures, communication, and training strategies to support and sustain the Vendor Management Office.
Drive the assessment of shadow VMO groups across the Village to develop a strategy for future organizational design, roles, and responsibilities.
Develop scorecards & forward-thinking improvements that advance DaVita's ability to optimize our supply management capabilities and bring visibility to vendor performance and opportunities to deliver incremental value to our patients and teammates.
Ability to build consensus and buy-in to support change efforts
Ability to synthesize diverse ideas, facts, and data into a cohesive analysis that includes problem statement, solution hypotheses, and robust data analysis to support recommendations
Qualifications:
8+ years of Supply Chain and Vendor Governance / Vendor Management experience required
Extensive experience and knowledge with outsourcing, including the ability to gather/articulate business requirements for RFPs/RFIs
Leads from the heart with a deep interest in people management and effective teaming
Experience as a Director preferred
Experience partnering with procurement / supply-chain / legal preferred
Experience with Stakeholder Management and cross-functional collaboration preferred
Demonstrated Track record in the following:
Communication skills, written and oral
Leading through influence
Ability to prioritize and adapt based on changing priorities
Ability to develop and deploy new initiatives at scale
Ability to learn new software and vendor management tools.
Philosophies that align with our core values of Service Excellence, Integrity, Team, Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Fulfillment and Fun
Thrive in a company that places equal weight on cultivating a compassionate culture and fostering a fast-paced entrepreneurial culture.
Here is what you can expect when you join our Village: • A "community first, company second" culture based on Core Values that really matter. • Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average. • Award-winning education and training across multiple career paths to help you reach your potential. • Performance-based rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions. • A comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your health, your financial well-being and your future. • Dedication, above all, to caring for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure across the nation.
Join us as we pursue our vision "To Build the Greatest Healthcare Community the World has Ever Seen."
More than pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates can receive benefits on the first day of the month following or after one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.
Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off
Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave, and more.
Salary/ Wage Range
$146,600.00 - $215,300.00 / year
Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their careers and offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform, Star Learning.
At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed Diversity & Belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. As such, individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
Salary/ Wage Range
$146,600.00 - $215,300.00 / year
Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience and may fall outside of the range shown. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits
DaVita Teammates Work Together to Make a Difference for our Patients, Each Other and Our World. This is underscored by our deep rooted commitment to our ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) practices. For more than 16 years, our Trilogy of Care—Caring for Our Patients, Caring for Each Other and Caring for Our World—has been at the heart of everything we do. Our key ESG issues and five focus areas are Patient Care, Teammate Engagement, Environmental Stewardship, Healthy Communities, and Leading with Integrity and Accountability.
The health and safety of our teammates and patients is our top priority as we continue to navigate the impact of COVID-19 together. We have focused on access to vaccines, infection control practices and education to ensure the safety of our teammates and patients.
Over the last decade, we set out to be the world's greatest dialysis company, and over the next decade, we are on unwavering pursuit of a healthier tomorrow. When you join the DaVita Village, you are joining a winning team. Through our commitment to training, growth, and quality, we consistently achieve superior clinical outcomes while allowing teammates to excel in an award-winning environment that enables them to thrive professionally and personally.
DaVita’s procurement team, PRISM (Procurement, Risk reduction, Innovation, and Supply Management), is on a multi-year journey of transforming our procurement / supply-chain / strategic sourcing process to be the best for our patients and partners and is looking for an innovative leader with Vendor Management experience to join our leadership team.
The Senior Director, Supply Network Risk & Vendor Management will report directly to the VP of Procurement. In this Vital role, you will primarily be responsible for proactively identifying and mitigating supply chain risks to enable supply continuity, driving supply chain resiliency and process improvement in alignment with company financial forecasts, and insulating the Village from critical supply risk. You will enable this by overseeing the development of standard work, tools, metrics, and processes to guide your teams’ work. You will also enable your team to quickly identify issues and underlying root causes, plan, and track countermeasures, and coordinate cross-functionally to pull in the correct resources to solve problems. Additionally - you will stand up a Vendor Management Office (VMO) team that provides oversight of key vendors, monitors vendors to ensure compliance with company policies, provides regular communications to senior leadership, and participates in key initiatives and partners with internal customers and vendors for process improvement. The position requires a deep understanding of vendor management best practices, systems, and policies and the use of data to implement those practices to drive enhanced economic value to the company.
Responsibilities:
The following duties and responsibilities generally reflect the expectations of this position but are not intended to be all-inclusive.
Technical Skills
VMO Responsibility:
Project and Communication Skills:
Qualifications:
Demonstrated Track record in the following:
Here is what you can expect when you join our Village:
• A "community first, company second" culture based on Core Values that really matter.
• Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average.
• Award-winning education and training across multiple career paths to help you reach your potential.
• Performance-based rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions.
• A comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your health, your financial well-being and your future.
• Dedication, above all, to caring for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure across the nation.
Join us as we pursue our vision "To Build the Greatest Healthcare Community the World has Ever Seen."
Why wait? Explore a career with DaVita today.
Go to http://careers.davita.com to learn more or apply.
What We’ll Provide:
More than pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates can receive benefits on the first day of the month following or after one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.
Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off
Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave, and more.
Salary/ Wage Range
$146,600.00 - $215,300.00 / year
Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their careers and offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform, Star Learning.
At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed Diversity & Belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. As such, individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
Salary/ Wage Range
$146,600.00 - $215,300.00 / year
Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience and may fall outside of the range shown. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits
The health and safety of our teammates and patients is our top priority as we continue to navigate the impact of COVID-19 together. We have focused on access to vaccines, infection control practices and education to ensure the safety of our teammates and patients.