Regional Director, Supply Chain Operations

Position Overview

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, including 30 hospitals, 4,423 patient beds, 23,000 employees, and 1,700 employed physicians. Each hospital is unique, reflecting the community it serves.

Regional Director, Supply Chain Operations will be responsible for multiple acute care and surgical hospitals. This role involves leading, implementing, measuring, and directing all supply chain operations while providing operational direction and oversight for operational improvements and inventory management.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure consistent operations of inventory management, transportation, and distribution.
• Lead and manage supply chain activities for all facilities within the assigned region.
• Execute the infrastructure project plan for each facility, including implementing standardization programs for all supply chain functions.
• Facilitate the implementation of market-based purchasing projects at each facility.
• Coordinate, manage, and evaluate facility supply chain directors, managers, and supervisors.
• Drive efforts to enable supply improvement initiatives within the region.
• Pull, analyze, and interpret supply spend, utilization, and metric data to identify issues and opportunities, implementing solutions as needed.
• Facilitate the standardization of products and optimize supply utilization through effective collaboration with clinical and operational leaders.
• Manage the market implementation plan, identify and mitigate risks, and monitor resource allocations to ensure successful execution.
• Execute the Supply Chain Performance Measurement plan in the region and report results to supply chain leaders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Healthcare Administration, or Finance.
• 3+ years of people management experience in an acute care hospital setting.
• 5+ years of supply chain management experience.
• Multi-facility experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency; intermediate PowerBi proficiency is helpful.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a professional, multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Initiative, dependability, and flexibility to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Sound business judgment with a strong understanding of healthcare services, operations, and finance.
• Strong organizational and process management skills.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.