Director of Contracting

About the role

This position is incentive eligible. Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Director of Contracting today with HealthTrust Supply Chain. HealthTrust Supply Chain is a critical part of HCA Healthcare’s strategy. Our focus is to improve performance and reduce costs by joining non-clinical and administrative functions. We develop, apply and monitor cost-efficient initiatives and programs for HCA Healthcare. By improving facility efficiency, medical professionals can focus on our mission - patient care. HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses. "The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Responsibilities

• Work closely on a team of professionals to help execute on key strategies to reduce HCA’s Non-Contracted Spend.
• Work with HCA Senior Director of Contracting, Healthtrust GPO, specific target vendors, etc. to identify new contracting opportunities and to maximize cost reductions for existing Division/Regional and National Contracts.
• Work closely with the Senior Director of Contracting, Healthtrust and HCA Divisions to make sure equipment and bulk buys savings are maximized.
• Analyze and implement best practices, policies and procedures across HCA Contracting.
• Coordinate, communicate and share intelligence with other service line contracting teams to assist and improve upon cost savings opportunities and to minimize redundancies or duplication of efforts.
• Review and prepare all division/regional custom agreements to ensure they are not in conflict with Healthtrust or national HCA agreements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 5-7 years of related healthcare or industry experience preferred
• Contracting experience in healthcare preferred

Benefits

HealthTrust Supply Chain offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include: Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services; Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services; Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence; Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling; Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing; Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts. Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.