Michigan Medicine ยท 3 hours ago
Chief Supply Chain Officer, University of Michigan Health
Ann Arbor, MI
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
10+ years expMichigan Medicine is seeking a Chief Supply Chain Officer to oversee the end-to-end supply chain management for UM Health. This role includes providing leadership for supply chain functions, managing a significant budget, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements while fostering a collaborative organizational culture.
EducationHealth CareMedical
Responsibilities
Facilitate and drive strategic direction for UM Health's end-to-end supply chain vision, goals, and objectives across owned and affiliated clinical sites
Responsible for the analysis, assessment, and approval of human resources, capital planning and acquisition, space, technology, and other resources to maintain operations in a manner that creates a safe environment and creates the ideal experience for patients, families, and other customers
Responsible for ensuring the development of financial plans of departments according to institutional directives, tracking results, reviewing monthly results, and partnering to develop and implement any required actions. Monitor monthly metrics via dashboards and work with direct reports on any necessary actions
Provide oversight, management, and guidance in support of the entire supply chain services department, which coordinates annual supply spend for UM Health at approximately $1.8 billion
Serve to maintain a cost-effective staffing structure that focuses on lean operations and organizational integration that results in expense reduction over time
Collaborate with the University of Michigan campus procurement on integrated initiatives
Partner with sustainability, facilities, department leaders, and UM Campus colleagues to implement environmental sustainability projects
Demonstrate commitment to coach and mentor direct reports and other emerging leaders for succession in the organization and personal career development
Collaborate with reporting leaders in creating an ideal staff experience and a positive organizational culture through employee engagement and action plans
Ensure that respective departments follow regulatory and legal requirements, including continual readiness for the Joint Commission and other regulatory agencies. Ensure follow-up action plans are in place, if necessary. Ensure that departments are compliant with required learning modules
Serves as executive point of contact for strategic vendors and industry contacts to include group purchasing organizations, distributors, and manufacturers
Participate in institutional capital, operations, and programmatic committees to support UM Health's goals and initiatives
Build alliances with customers and colleagues: demonstrate honesty, integrity, and follow through on commitments, anticipate internal/external customer needs, and meet expectations. Strives for collaboration, supports others, and team results
Other leadership tasks as assigned
Qualification
Required
Master's degree in Business Administration, Health Services Administration, Public Health, or a related area, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Progressively responsible business and administrative experience in healthcare administration, including healthcare operations in a large academic medical center setting of 10 years or greater
Experience and knowledge of financial management principles in the preparation of budgets (capital and operating), ongoing management of expenses and revenues and capital project management
Progressively responsible experience in supply chain strategy, purchasing, and materials management in an academic medical center (strong background in healthcare supply chain is essential, ideally with both sourcing and logistics experience to draw on)
Proven track record of improvement and execution of institutional goals with demonstrated knowledge of operations management principles, practices, and methods
Demonstrated experience in planning, coordinating, and executing operational work plans, process improvement, and new program development
Demonstrated knowledge and use of process improvement and change management, and leadership techniques
Demonstrated commitment to enhancing workplace culture and a commitment to creating the ideal work environment for staff
Company
Michigan Medicine
Michigan Medicine is a health care system and academic medical center that provides medical education and more. It is a sub-organization of University of Maichigan.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Heather Ascani
Director, Business Operations - Applied Systems Biology Core
Jack Kufahl
Chief Information Security Officer
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2025-12-11
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