Vice President, Enterprise Procurement – Optum Health

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The Enterprise Procurement team, centralized within UHG Corporate Services, works across Optum, UHC, and UHG. With this horizontal lens, Enterprise Procurement is uniquely positioned to support Optum’s sourcing and procurement strategies by enabling holistic end-to-end solutions through its ecosystem of procurement capabilities. The benefits of Enterprise Procurement’s include: (1) Fortune 4 leverage, (2) enterprise best practice, (3) labor optimization, (4) process standardization, (5) risk management, (6) performance management of strategic suppliers, (7) Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) alignment, (8) procurement technology strategy, and (9) category strategy and management.

This is a highly visible role where influencing internal and external key stakeholders will be critical to success to supporting Optum Health’s enterprise clinical operations category spend.  In collaboration with Optum Health Care Delivery Organizations and Optum Rx this role leads strategic supplier relationships and negotiations, related Group Purchasing Organization relationships, sourcing, contracting, and supplier management and performance.   The successful candidate must be passionate about customer service and a service first culture, driving value and performance improvements related to Optum Health’s cost, service, support, and product availability.  The ideal candidate is a recognized industry leader in pharmaceutical and wholesaler procurement, with a track record of value creation, innovation, and service excellence.

This role will closely partner with business stakeholders across UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare, and Optum, with a specific focus on Optum Health, one the most diverse and quickly expanding business segments. As a member of the Enterprise Procurement leadership team, this role will lead their team and internal customers to execute on supplier and sourcing strategies developed in partnership across UHG’s multiple business segments.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead with a relentless focus on customer service
• Cast a positive leadership shadow and operate as a servant leader who leverages UHG’s values
• Sets vision for team, appropriately delegate, and motivate teams through execution and ongoing support of customer needs
• Bring a demonstrated track records of developing individuals and teams, managing through change, and transforming teams to serve as trusted advisors
• Develop strong customer relationships with key business stakeholders by adding value through strategic guidance and recommendations
• Partner effectively with peers toward achieving shared team outcomes
• Be motivated by and promote continual improvement, identify customer solutions in the face of ambiguity and contribute toward team outcomes
• Manage team performance goals through objective measures with clear alignment against customer expectations

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s OR equivalent work experience
• 10+ years progressive experience in building and managing corporate supply management / procurement functions or management consulting with focus on procurement operations, strategic sourcing and supply chain
• 7+ years of procurement experience in Acute, Non-Acute, Ambulatory, Pharma, and/or Life-Sciences focused procurement roles, partnering directly with clinicians to define long-term category and supplier strategies, leveraging standardized business processes, data & analytics with a focus on continuous improvement
• Knowledge of clinical sourcing and procurement, inclusive of industry and supplier trends, group purchasing organizations, and physician preference products
• Expertise in supplier negotiations, with strong background in pricing strategy, “should-cost / tear-down” modeling, legal terms, supplier risk management, and service-level requirements
• Experience integrating unique customer needs, suppliers, team members, and processes introduced through M&A activity
• Solid executive presence with both written and verbal communication abilities across all audience levels
• Solid track record of stakeholder management and influencing outcomes
• Ability to lead remote and global team members
• Candidate must be open to 10%+ travel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s/MBA or related graduate degree
• Post-merger integration
• Private-Equity portfolio and/or holding company supplier rationalization

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug – free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.