JOB SUMMARY:

This Sourcing / Purchasing Analyst is a full-time position with VUMC IT and offers a comprehensive benefits package, career growth and an opportunity to join a highly collaborative team.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Analyze purchase requests for the best available purchasing method, pricing, terms and conditions, quantity discounts, quality, and service. Analyze requirements, research market conditions and recommend improvements for purchasing procedures and strategies. Review, understand, and negotiate terms and conditions included in contracts

2. Manage existing contracts and supplier relations for VUMC IT. Negotiates contracts for continued cost savings and reliability. Assists in financial analysis and needs assessment for purchases and products to include consideration related to total cost impact. Interact with Stakeholders, Legal and Procurement as needed to implement new contracts and renew existing contracts

3. Review and approve documents to verify the validity of complicated transactions and the availability of funds and to assure that all necessary information is present. Identify and correct errors in documents where discrepancies require complex corrections. Create spreadsheets independently as needed by the project.

4. Prepare leasing documents for capital equipment. Manage the lease from beginning (bid) to end (entering PO).

4. Pro-actively identify and resolve potential problems or issues that may impact a program, project or business condition. Critical issues are to be discussed with manager for visibility, direction and alternative solutions.

5. Maintain PEER (Internal contract system) & Box, create and analyze monthly reports/queries for renewals and ensure financial information has been recorded accurately and consistent with VUMC IT policies and procedures. Support the maintenance and maturity of various software and systems while managing and administering financial data analytics that include granularity on vendors, projects, technology components and stacks, time-tracking, cost allocation metrics, etc.

6. Make legal and financial arrangements with vendors, deemed to be in the best interest of Vanderbilt University Medical Center

7. Serve as the liaison between the customer and the vendor's technical support staff

8. Research and become familiar with core computing systems in use at VUMC

9. Interact with IT staff, vendors, local support providers, LAN managers, department purchasing agents, and people who hold similar positions at VUMC

10. Research, analyzes, and evaluate data from multiple sources to manage invoice discrepancies and PO encumbrances.

11. Pro-actively identify and resolve potential problems or issues that may impact a program, project or business condition.

Critical issues are to be discussed with manager for visibility, direction and alternative solutions. Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

About the Department:

VUMC IT

VUMC IT provides hardware, software and service solutions for the entire Medical Center. With over 40,000 workstations in the Medical Center, our teams can assist not only with hardware support, but also software and application support and services to enhance security and protection of your information.

Position Shift : Days

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity -- of culture, thinking, learning and leading -- is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

VUMC Recent Accomplishments

Because we are committed to providing the best in patient care, education and research, we are proud of our recent accomplishments:

• US News & World Report: #1 Adult Hospital in Tennessee and metropolitan Nashville, named to the Best Hospitals Honor Roll of the top 20 adult hospitals, 10 nationally ranked adult specialty programs, with 3 specialties rated in the top 10 nationally, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt named as one of the Best Children's Hospital in the nation, with 10 out of 10 pediatric specialties nationally ranked.
• Healthcare's Most Wired: Among the nation's 100 "most-wired" hospitals and health systems for its efforts in innovative medical technology.
• Becker's Hospital Review: named as one of the "100 Great Hospitals in America", in the roster of 100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs and to its list of the 100 Hospitals with Great Heart Programs.
• The Leapfrog Group: One of only 10 children's hospitals in the to be named at Leapfrog Top Hospital.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science: The School of Medicine has 112 elected fellows
• Magnet Recognition Program: Received our third consecutive Magnet designations.
• National Academy of Medicine: 22 members, elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding achievement
• Human Rights Campaign Healthcare Equality Index: 6 ^th year in a row that Vanderbilt University Medical Center was a Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality.