Senior Specialist Contract Operations and Analytics

What you will be doing:
The Senior Specialist – Contract Operations and Analytics is accountable for providing complex analytics and leadership in the development and execution of new and innovative reporting mechanisms and offerings. This position works collaboratively with staff in Contracting, Performance Groups, Member Field Services, Data Management, and Operations to successfully deliver new offerings that are innovative to the market. The Specialist performs analytics, complex data extracts, and presents findings and deliverables to key project stakeholders to support various areas including: contract launch, contract sourcing, and/or throughout the contract life cycle. In addition, develops analysis plans for assigned product categories, from member need identification to contract execution, which includes spend analysis, financial modeling, direct negotiations, legal collaboration and contract integration with electronic tools used by our members. The Senior Specialist is the lead subject matter expert for one or more categories, advising other team members on complex or sensitive issues.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibility #1 – 30%: Business Intelligence Tool (Tableau) Development:
- Develop reports for Sourcing Operations, Contracting, Performance Groups, and Member Field Services
- Automate work and workstreams of the Sourcing Analytic process, wherever possible
- Produce and maintain reports and tools built in Business Intelligence Tools (Tableau)
- Imbed Quality Assurance mechanisms as part of the automated analytics production
- Interpret needs of decision-makers and help design analytic output
- Expand Business Intelligence Tool utilization into new capabilities and new reports to maximize value to Contracting, and member field services, where applicable
- Continuously pursue opportunities for streamlining analytics production and developing new business intelligence capabilities
Responsibility #2 – 25%: Contracting Analytics:
- Focusing on Complex Categories ONLY
- Execute analyses for staying with current or converting to new suppliers
- Partner with the Product Planning team to ensure the development of consistent analytic research in the pre-negotiations phase of sourcing that highlight and recommend sourcing rationale.
- Perform analytics and produce key targeting and performance monitoring deliverables for strategic contract launches.
- Identify, obtain and analyze various disparate internal and external data sources required for completion of required deliverables.
- Communicate with contract managers and have robust product planning, negotiations, and performance monitoring knowledge.
- Develop analysis plan for assigned product categories, from member need identification to contract execution, which includes spend analysis, financial modeling, and contract integration with electronic tools used by our members.
- Complete pricing / spend data analysis.
- Assist in the development of award recommendation
- Present financial data in award presentation
- Adhere to the milestones and cycle times outlined in product category work plan, and notify team of deviations
- Conduct supplier and market intelligence research and analysis
- Perform product addition / deletion analytics.
- Create Price Increase/Decrease Analyses of products currently on contract.
- Identify and communicate regularly with supplier community to obtain market analytics and trends.
- Work with suppliers and others to maximize the sourcing process and benefit the members
- Assist Contract Launch in the development of the contract launch materials
Responsibility #3 – 45%: Centralized Analytics:
- Support Planning, Contracting, Performance Groups, Sourcing Operations, and Member Field Services by developing and producing global analytical reports using databases, analytical tools, and business acumen.
- Perform in depth analysis of market trends, product usage, and spend history
- Complete projects through the development of various pre-launch analysis and savings calculations tools and resources

Required Qualifications

Work Experience: Years of Applicable Experience - 4 or more years

Education: High School Diploma or GED (Required)

Preferred Qualifications

Skills:

Microsoft Excel
Data Analytics
Financial Analysis

Experience:

Project team leadership experience
Healthcare industry and/or statistics; Sourcing analytics or contract cycle analytics depending on need
Tableau, Qlick, Power BI, Microstrategy, WinSql

Education:

Bachelor’s degree

Additional Job Requirements:

Remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time
Be adaptive and change priorities quickly; meet deadlines
Attention to detail
Operate computer programs and software
Ability to communicate effectively with audiences in person and in electronic formats.
Day-to-day contact with others (co-workers and/or the public)
Making independent decisions
Ability to work in a collaborative business environment in close quarters with peers and varying interruptions

Working Conditions: Air conditioned office space

Travel Requirements: No travel required

Physical Demands: Sedentary: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.

Compensation: Premier’s internal salary range for this role is $64,000 - $118,000.

Benefits:

Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
401k retirement program
Paid time off
Participation in Premier’s employee incentive plans
Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities

Premier at a glance:

Ranked #1 on Charlotte’s Healthiest Employers list for 2019, 2020, and 2022
Named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute for the 16th year in a row

Equal Opportunity Employer: Premier is an equal opportunity employer.

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