Procurement Operations Advisor

at Health Care Service Corporation in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

At HCSC, we consider our employees the cornerstone of our business and the foundation to our success. We enable employees to craft their career with curated development plans that set their learning path to a rewarding and fulfilling career.

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Job Summary
This position is responsible for analyzing the complex business problems presented by multiple areas and developing solutions for Procurement Support Services (PSS) and potential external clients, including, but not limited to, Product, Members, Providers, Regulatory Agencies, Privacy, Information Security, Legal, and Enterprise Strategy. This position may be responsible for many and/or all the following:

* Support daily operations of PSS tools and personnel
* Analyze complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to decision-makers
* Directly produce datasets and reports for analysis using system reporting tools
* Support innovation efforts to improve and expand PSS services and processes
* Support the management, creation, organization, and delivery of knowledge assets for PSS
* Direct department communication and training for PSS

Job Description:
Works with PSS (Category Teams and SRG) and other business areas to define needs, determine a strategy, define/gather/document business requirements and produce a plan/proposal for delivery of a project.
May provide consultation to PSS and lead cross-functional teams to address business issues or information needs.
Improves PSS processes using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues.
Addresses user issues related to e-Procurement systems and tools.
Ties together solutions across systems.
Develops and deploys large scale applications. * Works with business and divisional data teams to design and generate tools to build analysis and reports that are actionable within the business environment.
Gathers, cleans, and analyzes data in order to prepare reports and identify insights for business stakeholders.
Acts as an organizational partner to support a formal continuous improvement program and facilitate execution of continuous improvement initiatives for internal customers, including conducting strategic planning and discovery sessions, performing root cause analysis, and validating improvement value realization through metrics.
Develops in-depth market intelligence materials to support PSS Category Teams.
Responds to PSS research requests by gathering, synthesizing, and presenting a summary of up-to-date, relevant, and credible market intelligence and/or industry best practices.
Proficiently uses business intelligence secondary sources (i.e., Gartner, Forrester, Everest Group, etc.) and other sources of information to respond to research requests.
Provides user instruction of secondary sources and other department or corporate information sources. Leads and support efforts to organize PSS's internal knowledge stores to ensure compliance with HCSC policy and knowledge management best practices.
Plans, deploys, configures, and manages secure Microsoft Teams and SharePoint sites to promote department collaboration and communication.
Writes and edits an array of communications materials for internal/external audiences.
Facilitates and delivers training and learning solutions, including instructor lead classroom and remote training via video conferencing and other technologies, using adult learning principles, effective facilitation concepts, and successful classroom management.

Required Job Qualifications
Bachelor's degree with at least 3 years of experience working in a role which requires one or more of the following: business development, business analyst, innovation management, etc. OR 7 years of experience working in a role which requires one or more of the following: business development, business analyst, innovation management.
2-4 years progressive experience in indirect procurement, supply-chain management, supplier management, or category management.
Proficient at MS Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Visio.
Critical thinking, analytical skills, and business acumen.
Able to adapt and take initiative to learn new systems and tools.
Strategic and innovative thinker able to influence and advise business... For full info follow application link.

HCSC is committed to diversity in the workplace and to providing equal opportunity and affirmative action to employees and applicants. We are an Equal Opportunity Employment / Affirmative Action employer dedicated to workforce diversity and a drug-free and smoke-free workplace. Drug screening and background investigation are required, as allowed by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.