Vice President of Supply Chain

Position Summary

The Vice President, Supply Chain is a senior executive responsible for building and leading a best-in-class, enterprise-wide supply chain function across Proliance Surgeons’ ambulatory surgery centers, care centers, and affiliated physician practices operating within a Management Services Organization (MSO) structure.

This role drives system-wide sourcing, contracting, procurement, inventory management, and supply utilization strategies that optimize clinical quality, physician satisfaction, and financial performance. The VP will standardize procurement and inventory management processes, reduce variation in purchasing practices, secure physician and operational alignment before implementing major changes, support rapid growth including de novo and M&A activity, and partner closely with physician leaders to align supply decisions with clinical outcomes and economic value.

The role serves as an enterprise leader for supply chain strategy, governance, analytics, vendor relationships, purchasing discipline, supply continuity, and value creation across a physician-led organization.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

The key duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Enterprise Strategy and Platform Build

• Design and implement an enterprise supply chain operating model that supports ASCs, care centers, and affiliated physician practices.
• Build scalable infrastructure for policies, governance, systems, analytics, procurement controls, and purchase order adoption.
• Lead supply chain integration for acquired ASCs and practices, including contract conversion, vendor alignment, and process standardization.
• Partner with executive leadership on value creation initiatives tied to supply chain performance, growth, and organizational sustainability.

Physician-Centric Supply Alignment

• Develop and lead a physician engagement model for supply chain decisions, recognizing physician ownership, preference, and influence.
• Implement physician preference item management strategies, especially for high-cost implants, devices, and clinically sensitive categories.
• Create data transparency tools, including case cost dashboards and benchmarking, to support physician alignment and informed decision-making.
• Evaluate and support gainsharing or incentive structures tied to supply efficiency where appropriate.

Strategic Sourcing and Contracting

• Develop a contracting strategy that leverages scale across ASCs, care centers, and physician practices.
• Optimize and manage group purchasing organization relationships while selectively pursuing direct-to-manufacturer agreements for high-spend categories.
• Lead negotiations for implants, surgical supplies and disposables, pharmaceuticals, biologics, and other critical supply categories.
• Drive contract compliance, purchase order discipline, and utilization discipline across all sites.

Operations and Distribution Model

• Standardize procurement and inventory management processes across all facilities.
• Determine the optimal distribution strategy, including self-distribution, third-party logistics, or hybrid models.
• Implement best practices for inventory turns, par optimization, case cart standardization, waste reduction, and expiration management.
• Improve operations’ use of purchase orders across care centers and ASCs and implement 3-way matching to strengthen invoice accuracy, contract compliance, and spend visibility.
• Ensure high service levels across locations while balancing cost, availability, supply continuity, and shortage mitigation.

Technology and Data Enablement

• Lead selection, optimization, and adoption of ERP, inventory management, and analytics platforms that support enterprise supply chain operations.
• Build enterprise-level reporting for supply cost per APC weight, supply spend excluding implants as a percentage of revenue, contract compliance, vendor performance, and purchasing practice variation.
• Use data to drive procurement and inventory standardization, benchmarking, reduced purchasing variation, and decision-making across a decentralized network.

Financial Stewardship and Value Creation

• Identify and execute synergy opportunities across the platform.
• Partner with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and pro forma modeling for acquisitions and supply chain initiatives.
• Develop and track a multi-year savings pipeline tied to sourcing, utilization, procurement process improvement, inventory standardization, and reduced purchasing variation.

M&A Integration

• Lead supply chain diligence for acquisitions, including contract positioning, pricing benchmarks, and supply cost structure.
• Execute post-close integration plans, including vendor consolidation, contract conversion, system alignment, and process alignment.
• Achieve timely realization of identified supply chain synergies.

Leadership and Team Development

• Build a centralized supply chain leadership team with regional execution capabilities.
• Establish clear governance between corporate supply chain and local ASC, care center, and practice operators.
• Drive a culture of accountability, transparency, service, and continuous improvement.
• Develop future leaders within the supply chain function.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's degree required; master’s degree in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Supply Chain Management, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive supply chain, procurement, sourcing, or healthcare operations leadership experience.
• Minimum 7 years of senior leadership experience overseeing multi-site supply chain operations, preferably in ambulatory surgery, physician practice, hospital, or broader healthcare settings.
• Demonstrated success partnering with physician-led or clinically complex organizations.
• Strong background in strategic sourcing, contracting, vendor management, inventory management, procurement controls, analytics, financial management, and large-scale operational transformation.
• Experience supporting M&A diligence, post-close integration, vendor consolidation, or supply chain synergy realization preferred.
• Working knowledge of ERP, inventory management, purchasing, analytics, and supply chain reporting systems preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strategic Supply Chain Leadership: Ability to define and execute an enterprise supply chain strategy that supports scale, consistency, clinical quality, physician alignment, and financial performance.
• Physician Partnership: Builds trust with physician owners, managing physicians, and clinical leaders while balancing clinical preferences with operational and financial discipline.
• Financial Stewardship: Understands supply cost drivers, savings pipelines, benchmarking, contract compliance, inventory economics, acquisition modeling, and value creation priorities.
• Contracting and Negotiation: Leads complex vendor negotiations and contracting strategies with emotional intelligence, collaboration, and accountability.
• Change Leadership: Leads change in complex, decentralized, physician-led environments by clearly communicating the why, building alignment, and managing implementation risk.
• Operational Excellence: Demonstrates expertise in standardizing procurement, inventory management, purchase order discipline, 3-way matching, distribution models, and supply continuity practices.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Uses analytics, dashboards, scorecards, and benchmarking to identify variation, guide decisions, and measure performance.
• Integrity and Ethics: Maintains the highest standards of accountability, transparency, compliance, and ethical behavior.
• Leadership Development: Builds high-performing teams, establishes clear expectations, develops future leaders, and supports a culture of continuous improvement.
• Mission Alignment: Connects supply chain strategy and execution to Proliance Surgeons’ mission, vision, values, patient experience, teammate experience, and physician-led model.

Potential Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Financial

• Supply cost per APC weight and supply spend, excluding implants, as a percentage of revenue.
• Cost per APC weight by specialty and physician.
• Realized savings from sourcing, utilization, standardization, vendor consolidation, GPO, and direct sourcing initiatives.

Operational

• Contract compliance rates.
• Purchase order utilization and 3-way match adoption rates.
• Inventory turns and days on hand.
• Case cart standardization rates.
• Supply continuity, shortage mitigation, waste reduction, and expiration management performance.

Culture and Leadership

• Builds and leads a high-performing supply chain team.
• Develops team members for continued growth and future opportunities.
• Optimizes team performance across ASCs, care centers, and affiliated practices.

Strategic

• M&A supply chain diligence and integration performance.
• Vendor consolidation metrics and analysis.
• GPO versus direct sourcing savings and strategic impact.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

The work environment/physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a teammate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable differently abled persons to perform the essential functions.