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🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

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Advocate Aurora Health

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 $10.2M Grant on 2019-08

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance

Advocate Aurora Health is a leading healthcare organization that operates across various regions including Central Chicagoland, Central Wisconsin, Greater Milwaukee, and more. With a diverse range of career areas such as advanced practice clinicians, behavioral health, nursing, and more, Advocate Aurora Health is committed to helping people live well. The organization offers numerous benefits and opportunities for career advancement, fostering an environment where individuals can thrive and innovate in the healthcare sector. Advocate Aurora Health prioritizes the safety of its candidates and maintains a robust recruitment process to protect sensitive information.

📋 Description

• Manage a portfolio of over 110 service agreements totaling more than $40 million in annual spend • Serve as the primary contact for contracted vendor relationships and facilitate communication between vendors, HTM leadership, and clinical leaders • Identify standardization opportunities, service evaluations, escalations, and actionable recommendations • Initiate negotiations, cost-to-value assessments, extensions, and terminations of supplier and service agreements • Partner with HTM management on contract-processing improvements and contractual amendments • Monitor contract change dates and process amendments, rate increases, fee schedules, and reimbursement methodologies • Coordinate contract justification, legal CRAF, and technology review approvals • Consult with Legal and trigger evaluations by relevant departments such as IT and Data Security • Develop and publish communications, reference tools, product and rate summaries, prior authorization requirements, and other contract documents • Communicate vendor and contract status to HTM leaders • Lead special projects or reviews for system-level agreements when needed • Activate GPO contract pricing and maintain accurate pricing in the HTM medical equipment database (CMMS) • Audit vendor adherence to support agreement terms and applicable cost metrics • Maintain the HTM contract database and data integrity for contracts and covered assets • Develop standard and ad-hoc reports covering payment issues, amortization, accruals, budgets, invoice payments, savings, ROI, and compliance • Review, audit, and process invoices against contracts and addendums, including correct general-ledger and department coding • Analyze data trends and develop Excel spreadsheets for payment anomalies • Resolve invoice pricing discrepancies with accounts payable, the HTM Business Office, and senior leadership • Process credit memos and update contracts, general ledger records, purchase requests/orders, budgets, and databases • Present savings identified through contract-language and invoice-discrepancy audits

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Health Care Administration, Business, or a related field • Minimum 5 years of experience in contract and/or vendor management, data analysis and reporting, and capital technology support within a healthcare technology management environment • No licensure, registration, or certification required • Excellent human relations and analytical skills • Self-motivated; able to schedule, organize, and manage work independently with minimal supervision • Ability to function independently within broad guidelines and instruct, guide, assign, advise, and lead team members • Ability to manage time and resources in a dynamic, complex, highly visible environment with multiple dependencies and competing interests • Excellent project management and multitasking skills • Advanced understanding of contract management processes, procedures, terms, and conditions • Ability to manage a large portfolio of strategic contracts and categories • Ability to interpret highly technical analysis in non-technical terms for management reporting • Ability to manage complex issues, drive incremental contract savings, and develop strategic relationships • Understanding of basic accounting concepts • Ability to communicate and partner effectively with HTM Leadership, Clinical Leadership, and vendor contract management/executives • Advanced written and verbal communication skills • Excellent organizational skills • Ability to travel as required

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits Eligible: Yes • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job • Incentive pay for select positions • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance • Paid Time Off programs • Medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability benefits • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses • Adoption assistance • Paid parental leave • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match • Other financial wellness programs • Educational Assistance Program • Programs that invest in your career development • Well-being programs