Clinical Procurement Consultant
Req ID: 195072
Location: Central Zone, Halifax Infirmary Robie Street Entrance - QEII
Department: SCO CONTRACT MANAGEMENT - CNS
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 27-Jan-25
Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We're on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.
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About the Opportunity
Reporting to the Manager of Contract Management the Clinical Procurement Consultant supports the delivery of a comprehensive integrated supply chain service for the NSHA ensuring an alignment between strategic and operational planning and excellence in client relations. Using a "people and client first" approach, the Consultant will support current and emerging technologies and practices to establish a robust people focused and service excellence culture across the province. This position contributes to strategic and operational leadership to corporate functions which envision, enable and support the ongoing development and delivery of high quality, provincially integrated health programs and services that are based on provincial standards of care, efficient, sustainable, safe and responsive to the needs of Nova Scotians. The position contributes to the leadership of support strategies and operational plans consistent with legislation, accountability frameworks and the mission, vision and values of the organization. The position supports a provincially integrated process and assists with leading the design and development of all supply chain related processes, plans and policies to support the effective, efficient and sustainable delivery of all NSHA services and programs.
Responsibilities include:
- Supports the cross functional strategic planning of the goods services and equipment procurement requirements for NSHA programs to support patient care, safety and value.
- Ensures that the NSHA program leadership vision is represented and achieved through procurement strategy
- Participates in relevant category governance committees
- Provides ad hoc updates to program leaders on activities and events related to procurement within their program
- Supports the prioritization of procurement requirements taking into consideration patient care, financial stewardship, and administrative resources.
- Responsible for promoting the needs of the NSHA program within the procurement process
- Promotes procurement process and outcomes that improve service delivery quality and value, ensuring a robust sustainable system in a changing environment with significant pressures.
- Relationship management supports the cross functional networking of processes within the supply chain service and across applicable NSHA, IWK, Nova Scotia Government programs and services.
- Responsible for supporting use of evidence to inform the planning and execution of procurement initiatives.
- Networks across stakeholder groups to ensure that the right individuals are identified and engaged to participate in procurement projects
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:
- Bachelors Degree in Business, Commerce, Engineering, Science, or Supply Chain Management
- Minimum three (3) years' experience with clinical product sales or clinical procurement required
- Experience working in a healthcare environment
- Experience with procurement process preferred
- Proven history providing support and customer service to senior leaders in an organization
- Proven history building and fostering collaborative relationships with organizational leaders
- Experience consistently displaying professionalism in all interactions with customers
- Contract life cycle knowledge and or experience in a phase of the contract life cycle
- Critical thinker with strong problem identification and resolution skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and strict deadlines
- Master of Business Administration considered an asset
- Graduate of a recognized nursing program or medical technology program considered an asset
- Recognized Professional Supply Chain Designation (CPP/SCMP or P Log), Project management professional (PMP) certification, LEAN certification, change management certification, considered assets
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours
- Permanent, Full-time / 75 Hours Bi-weekly
Compensation and Benefits
$35.27 - $44.09 Hourly
Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.
Once You've Applied
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.