Deputy Director, Procurement, Correctional Health Services

About the role

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the nation. We are a network of 11 hospitals, trauma centers, neighborhood health centers, nursing homes, post-acute care centers, and correctional health services. Our health system provides essential services to 1.4 million New Yorkers every year in more than 70 locations across the city's five boroughs.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Correctional Health Services is one of the nation’s leading correctional health care systems in quality of and innovations to care, and access from pre-arraignment through compassionate release. In-jail services include medical, nursing, mental health, substance use treatment, social work, dental and vision care, discharge planning, and reentry support.

Responsibilities

The Deputy Director of Procurement shall proactively oversee daily purchasing activities and provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for all procurement functions. This position is responsible for managing the sourcing, contracting, and acquisition of clinical and non-clinical supplies, equipment, and services to ensure cost-effectiveness, high quality, and compliance in purchasing processes that support vulnerable patient care.

• Provide strong management leadership to supervise, train, and mentor a team of four procurement analysts, ensuring high performance and professional development.
• Establish specific objectives and tasks to provide tangible guidance, including using checklists to support staff in maximizing the accuracy of their work submissions.
• Monitor, review, and assign incoming orders to staff.
• Ensure staff are promptly processing orders and following up with vendors on open POs.
• Review and approve requisitions, ensuring they are accurately reflecting order and address any requisition issues with the team.
• Coordinate with various departments, including CHS Accounts Payable, Supply Chain Purchasing team, and CHS Receiving department, and CHS Inventory Management on PO updates, returns, invoices, credits, and other requests.
• Support CHS Inventory Management with replenishment requests, flagging low inventory, and backordered items.
• Assist Leadership, and perform analysis on Capital investments to ensure alignment with strategic and financial goals.

Qualifications

The minimum qualifications for this position are a Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related discipline with an emphasis on accounting and financial systems; and two (2) years of responsible-level experience in fiscal management or administration with an emphasis on financial systems, management information and controls, one (1) year of which must have been in a responsible administrative or managerial capacity.

Alternatively, a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in disciplines, as listed above; and three (3) years of experience, as described above, one (1) year of which must have been in a responsible administrative or managerial capacity.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and oral and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and financial management software (e.g., Oracle Procurement).
• Computer literacy with excellent skills in Microsoft and Google Office suites.