Healthcare Supply Chain Data Analyst (Remote Available)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a leading healthcare institution located in Nashville, Tennessee, dedicated to patient care, education, and research. The Healthcare Supply Chain Data Analyst role provides essential analytic support for healthcare supply chain and purchasing activities, working closely with Account Executives to optimize purchasing contract portfolios and ensure accurate tracking of billable contract fees.

Responsibilities:

• Communication to vendors, clients and team members
• Heavy use of Excel and other data tools
• Develop communications such as PowerPoint presentations, proposals, policies and procedures, and business summaries to enhance and support strategic and operational plans
• Think strategically and effectively implement tactical elements to ensure strategic goals are met
• Demonstrate creative problem solving through pattern reorganization and thinking along unconventional lines
• Demonstrated ability to work well with people at all levels of an organization
• Process Improvement and Analysis
• Develop continuous process improvement methods applicable to the field and designs plans for implementation
• Work with other team members to perform financial analysis, draw conclusions and make recommendations to leadership
• Participate in calculation, validation and updating of cost saving initiatives
• Gather data, analyze information, develop conclusions, communicate recommendations clearly and work effectively with others on a team
• Planning and Strategy
• Research current challenges and trends in the field and brings information and recommendations back to leadership for consideration
• Participate in business planning, needs analysis and business risk assessment
• Reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution
• Recommend measures to improve processes, employee performance, and quality of service provided to the customer
• Foster an environment that rewards new ideas and risk taking, builds confidence, encourages teamwork and collaboration
• Create and contribute to a work environment of openness, and mutual respect
• Self-starter identifying the work that is needed to support the business

Requirements:

• Strong or Advanced Excel skills
• Supply Chain experience
• Healthcare background
• PowerPoint experience
• Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) experience
• Any dashboard or reporting experience with Tableau, PowerBI
• SQL Skills or the ability to create a database for future reporting needs
• Use of evolving A.I tools