Do you want to work at one of the Top 100 Hospitals in the nation? We are guided by our values of Love and Excellence and are passionate about delivering exceptional health care. Come join us at ChristianaCare!

ChristianaCare is one of the country's most dynamic healthcare organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible, and lowering healthcare costs. ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,299 beds), a free-standing emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care, and women's health. It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute and was rated by IDG Computerworld as one of the nation's Best Places to Work in IT. ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 260 residents and fellows. It is continually ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the Best Hospital. With the unique CareVio data-powered care coordination service and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care.

ChristianaCare Offers

• Full Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, etc.
• Two retirement planning offerings, including 403(b) with company contributions.
• Generous paid time off with annual roll-over and opportunities to cash out.
• 12-week paid parental leave
• Incredible Work/Life benefits including annual membership to care.com, access to backup care services for dependents through Care@Work, retirement planning services, financial coaching, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and great discounts through several vendors for hotels, rental cars, theme parks, shows, sporting events, movie tickets and much more!

About This Position

ChristianaCare is searching for a Director of Perioperative / HVIS Supply Chain to be responsible for material management operations within the Perioperative and HVIS departments, ensuring a steady supply of necessary materials and equipment for surgeries and post-operative care. This position is responsible for driving and meeting key strategic objectives to ensure the ChristianaCare system and Supply Chain vision extends throughout Perioperative and HVIS and procedural Supply Chain operations. Strategic goals could include optimizing logistics, improving real-time inventory and procedural charge capture methods, developing and measuring against performance KPIs, and ensuring continuous improvement. The Director, Perioperative / HVIS will lead a team of supervisors and have overall responsibility for their assigned functions. This position plays a key role in fostering Supply Chain's customer service image within the facility and requires extensive collaboration with the Director of Hospital Operations. Ideal candidates should possess:

• Demonstrated success in logistics environment, preferably in healthcare
• Have expertise in ERP systems operations, particularly in areas such as inventory control, forecasting demand, managing replenishment, and overseeing requisitions, skilled in reporting and analytical tasks, preferably in Workday.
• Experience leading a team
• Demonstrated experience engaging executive and clinical leaders to drive change and influence outcomes.

Principal duties and responsibilities:

Leads the Perioperative and HVIS Supply Chain Operations for all CCHS facilities, i.e., Christiana Care, Union, Wilmington, and other satellite hospitals

Coordinates and monitors all technical and administrative activities of Perioperative and HVIS Supply Chain Management, under the direction of the Sr. Director, Supply Chain Operations

Provides leadership as a contributing member of both the corporate Supply Chain and surgical leadership teams to create strategies based on Supply Chain vision and internal customer needs.

Provides leadership necessary to proactively identify, articulate and rectify problems, which may interfere with providing high quality and efficient patient care within the Perioperative and HVIS service line.

Provides leadership to consult with medical staff, nursing, Operating Room / Interventional Suite clinical engineering, and purchasing for all matters pertaining to the selection, processing and usage of items in the health system's surgical settings.

Manages the logistics for all (official stock & non-stock) items used by the surgical areas and specialties operating within the Operating Room / Interventional Suite. (This includes, but is not limited to, the updating and modifying of supply standards, assuring quality of incoming products, coordination and responsibility for inventory throughout the health system. This includes monitoring of staff re-ordering supplies and purchasing to resolve supply issues)

Works with Operating Room / Interventional Suite management, physicians, and value analysis (as necessary) to determine clinically acceptable substitutes.

***Full job spec will be provided during the recruitment process

Bachelor's degree or equivalent required

• Master's degree in business, Supply Chain, operations or a health care-related field preferred
• 10 years of experience with increasing scope of responsibility and impact
• Experience in healthcare is highly coveted
• Lean/6 sigma experience and/or certifications preferred.

Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.