Material Management /On-site
Full Time
Regular
Day Shift
8
Rated as one of the Top 25 Best Hospitals to Work for in the U.S., the heart of LMC is our 557-bed modern state-of-the-art facility. Winning the prestigious, "Summit Award" from Press Ganey for outstanding patient satisfaction, "Consumer Choice Award" from the National Research Corporation, all contributing to our reputation for giving our patients the highest quality care. Lexington Medical Center was voted one of South Carolina’s “Best Places to Work” for 2019!
We are located in heart of the Midlands, right outside of Columbia, SC, and one of the most successful integrated healthcare systems in the Southeast. As the third largest employer in the Midlands, we invite you to be a part of our ongoing success and join our LMC Family.
Job Summary
The Vice President Supply Chain will provide leadership to the supply chain function, which includes ensuring supplies and materials are procured and distributed to our hospital, physician network locations, community medical centers, and administrative support locations. The Vice President is responsible for envisioning and effectively articulating a clear, modern and effective integrated end-to-end supply chain that meets and keeps pace with patient expectations while keeping costs of operations within the established budgets and guidelines. Reporting directly to the Sr. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, the Vice President participates in the development of long-term strategies and business plans.
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in a related field. Master's Degree strongly preferred
- Minimum Years of Experience: 10+ years' progressive leadership in organizing and optimizing a supply chain system for a large hospital
- Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): None
- Required Certifications/Licensure: None
- Required Training: None
Essential Functions
- Provides leadership to the supply chain organization, ensuring that all teams share a common vision in order to deliver the best clinical care for our patients.
- Leads development of the supply chain strategy and results to ensure clear understanding and alignment of the strategy and supporting programs to LMC's mission and strategy.
- Actively manages all warehouse facilities and system-wide purchasing activities.
- Leads an organization responsible for keeping inventory at various LMC locations stocked with needed medical equipment and supplies, while ensuring optimal stocking and flow of inventory throughout the system.
- Drives the supply chain team to develop creative solutions to ensure timely and efficient flow of inventory through the distribution network with a focus on proactive capacity, forecasting and planning.
- Works with leaders around the organization to anticipate potential obstacles in the supply chain and generate ideas for improving overall distribution operations and logistics processes.
- Anticipates future trends related to supply chain operations in order to ensure LMC is in a position to maximize opportunities and sustain our high level of patient care.
- Ensures that the supply chain organization uses the most appropriate tools and analytics to optimize product flow and fulfillment systems.
- Partners with administrative functions, and builds strong and deep relationships with Finance, Legal, Compliance, and Information Technology.
- Fosters a spirit of service within the entire supply chain operation.
- Develops and executes strategy for supply chain operations.
- Possess a deep appreciation for customer service.
- Possess strong knowledge of business process and design techniques that encourage a critical look at key processes that focus on optimizing organization performance.
- Understands the key drivers for cost control.
- Team builder and leadership developer. Proven ability to attract, develop, motivate, retain and lead a high-performing team of professionals.
- Maintains a track record of developing and implementing performance metrics that are correlated with success, while holding a leadership team strictly accountable for results.
- Develops, implements, and motivates teams to encourage and reinforce innovation and change thinking. Involves key influencers in the design and implementation of change initiatives to gain buy-in from key stakeholders.
- Effectively leads change to align with the strategy to improve performance. Ensures roles and expectations are defined such that they focus on key organizational objectives.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Demonstrates the ability to work cooperatively across all levels of the organization. This is the value of and ability to contribute to strategy formulation and speak with a unified voice in support of the strategic agenda.
- Drives results across the supply chain department. Ensures that the right people and processes are in place to produce and maintain excellent business results.
- Drives to achieve higher performance by setting challenging goals and making decisions based on sound judgment and business fundamentals. Delegates effectively and demonstrates the ability to accomplish things through mobilizing the team, both enabling others to act with purpose and holding them accountable.
- Understands industry best practices and utilizes this knowledge to benchmark and drive performance.
- Proactively seeks to improve and/or identify new processes and systems to raise quality and productivity in a calculated way. Works productively in the face of ambiguity or uncertainty.
- Able to adapt leadership skills to meet the changing demands of a situation.
- Develops and communicates a compelling vision for the future and consistently articulates the vision and the implications change will have for team members and the organization as a whole.
- Creates an environment of open communication; understands team members' skill sets and challenges each accordingly, thus enabling the team to perform at its best. Holds individuals accountable for their commitments, providing proper tools and instruction for executives, as well as feedback for continued growth. Executive Characteristics.
- Operates effectively in a fast-paced environment with high expectations to produce results.
- Drives highly complex, cross-organizational initiatives through the influencing of and negotiation with stakeholders who at times may hold competing points of view.
- Develops trusted relationships with physicians, senior clinical and non-clinical leaders, understand their strategies and objectives, and devise effective and efficient ways to implement supply chain solutions that align to and support those objectives.
- Excellent executive level written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills.
- Demonstrates poise and self-control, establishes credibility, deals diplomatically with conflict, and instills a sense of trust and confidence in others.
- Demonstrates a high level of drive balanced with an equal amount of self-discipline. A predisposition for action while simultaneously demonstrating LMC's values.
- A management style that seeks to share information and welcomes input into the decision-making process. A collaborative approach and ability to take an institutional view.
- Demonstrated political acumen and the necessary skills to orchestrate, optimize, and constructively balance the interests of diverse stakeholders.
- A mentor and developer of people who motivates others to be team players and drive accountability as well as being supportive and open with staff.
- Commits to excellence and high quality.
- A role model of personal and professional integrity.
- All other duties as assigned.
We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our employees and their families:
- Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
- Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
- Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
- Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
- Adoption assistance
- LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan forgiveness
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of LMC to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. LMC strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. LMC endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee’s desires and abilities and the hospital’s needs.
