Vice President-Supply Chain Strategy

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General Summary

The VP, Supply Chain Strategy will lead Duke's enterprise value creation agenda across Duke Health and Duke University by directing strategic sourcing, clinical integration, and shared services to improve cost, utilization, contract performance, supplier value, and operational discipline. This executive converts supply chain strategy into measurable enterprise results across the health system and university while strengthening clinical, academic, and operational trust.

Work Performed

Enterprise Value Creation Leadership

• Own a unified enterprise value creation strategy spanning Duke Health and Duke University.

• Translate financial targets into a governed pipeline of sourcing, utilization, contracting, and shared-services initiatives.

• Deliver sustained, auditable savings, expense reduction, and margin improvement against the multi-year plan.

Strategic Sourcing Leadership

• Lead all strategic sourcing across clinical and non-clinical categories, including category strategy, negotiation, supplier governance, and activation.

• Set portfolio strategy across direct contract, GPO, local sourcing, sole-source risk, and standardization pathways.

• Build a disciplined operating model that improves contracting speed, adoption, compliance, and realized value.

Clinical Integration & Utilization

• Lead the Clinical Integration function with primary emphasis on utilization improvement, evidence-based product decisions, and physician engagement.

• Use Lumere as the core platform to identify variation, benchmark opportunity, prioritize initiatives, and monitor realized clinical value.

• Partner with physicians, nursing, service lines, and value analysis leaders to improve supply utilization without compromising quality, safety, or outcomes.

Shared Services Leadership

• Lead the enterprise shared services portfolio, including purchased services, contracting, economic mobility, IT, and capital support functions.

• Create coordinated strategies that improve total cost of ownership, contract discipline, supplier performance, and speed to value in non-labor spend.

• Ensure economic mobility and community impact priorities are embedded where they align with Duke's mission and sourcing strategies.

Executive Partnership, Governance & Credibility

• Serve as a senior advisor to clinical, academic, finance, and operational leaders on where and how supply chain can create enterprise value.

• Lead governance with transparency through dashboards, executive reviews, and initiative tracking that distinguish projected value from realized value.

• Strengthen Supply Chain's position as a strategic enterprise operator, not simply a transactional service function.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Core Strategic Competencies:

• Strategic leadership and operating model design: Ability to translate enterprise supply chain priorities into clear strategy, governance, structure, and execution plans.

• Executive communication and stakeholder engagement: Skilled at influencing senior leaders, facilitating alignment across complex stakeholder groups, and communicating clearly at the executive level.

• Program and portfolio management: Ability to lead large-scale initiatives, manage competing priorities, drive accountability, and ensure measurable progress against strategic goals.

• Data-driven decision making: Strong ability to use analytics, performance metrics, financial data, and market insights to identify opportunities and guide strategic recommendations.

• Change leadership and team development: Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, build high-performing teams, support organizational change, and create a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Operational & Domain Expertise:

• Enterprise strategist with systems thinking: Connects category actions, clinician behavior, contract structure, and financial outcomes.

• Deep command of strategic sourcing: Expertise in non-labor value creation and enterprise shared-services transformation.

• Strong utilization-management orientation: Fluency in Lumere, value analysis, benchmarking, and physician-led standardization.

• Cross-functional adaptability: Ability to work across health system and university environments with differing stakeholders, governance models, and decision rights.

• Execution tracking: Lead large-scale sourcing and utilization portfolios with measurable, auditable enterprise results.

• Complex spend leadership: Demonstrated success leading purchased services, contracting, IT, capital, or similarly complex indirect spend domains.

Level Characteristics

• Enterprise strategist with systems thinking: connects category actions, clinician behavior, contract structure, and financial outcomes.

• Deep command of strategic sourcing, non-labor value creation, and enterprise shared-services transformation.

• Strong utilization-management orientation with fluency in Lumere, value analysis, benchmarking, and physician-led standardization.

• Ability to work across health system and university environments with differing stakeholders, governance models, and decision rights.

• Lead large-scale sourcing and utilization portfolios with measurable, auditable enterprise results.

• Demonstrated success leading purchased services, contracting, IT, capital, or similarly complex indirect spend domains.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, finance, economics, or a related field.

• Master's degree is preferred.

Experience

• Position requires a minimum of 15 years in healthcare supply chain experience demonstrating progressive increases in responsibility and scope, including at least five years' experience collaborating with physicians and executives.

Degrees, Licensures, Certifications

• (Note: Based on the provided text, this currently mirrors the experience requirement) Position requires a minimum of 15 years in healthcare supply chain experience demonstrating progressive increases in responsibility and scope including at least five years' experience collaborating with physicians and executives.