Reference #: 187916
Job Details
Job Location
Corporate Headquarters - Plymouth Meeting, PA
Remote Type
Fully Remote
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
Bachelor's Degree Preferred
Travel Percentage
10%
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Supply Chain
Description
WHY CHOOSE ECRI?
ECRI is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ECRI team:
Industry leadership: We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research.
On-the-job-learning: You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology.
Comprehensive healthcare benefits: We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage.
Retirement Savings: Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to LinkedIn Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identify theft insurance, flexible spending accounts).
Volunteer Program: ECRI Cares, our employee volunteer program, provides a framework for us to work together and make a difference in the lives of others. All employees are provided 16 hours annually of paid time to volunteer at preapproved ECRI Cares charities during normal business hours.
ABOUT ECRI
At ECRI, our passion for safe, effective, and efficient care is ingrained into the fabric of who we are and why we are here. For more than 50 years, the people of ECRI have been unyielding in their work to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. Now, with the acquisition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), we have created one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world.
As a non-profit, independent organization, we utilize an unbiased, evidence-based approach to develop guidance, and maintain our principles of integrity and transparent work. Our ethical standards have led us to adopt the industry's strictest conflict-of-interest policies, and they are why tens of thousands of healthcare leaders worldwide rely on ECRI to guide their clinical, operational, and strategic decisions across all sites of care.
The Most Trusted Voice in Healthcare
ECRI is proud to serve the healthcare industry, from providers and insurers to government agencies, and medical associations. Our areas of focus include:
Patient Safety: empowering leaders to eliminate patient harm through the dissemination of best practices, guidance, benchmarking, and recommendations.
Evidence-Based Medicine: providing clinical evidence to inform and support decisions on the effectiveness of medical technologies, procedures, genetic tests, and clinical practice guidelines.
Technology Decision Support: arming hospital systems with unbiased insights, so they can optimize their supply chain.
ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
At ECRI, our passion for the truth drives us to go further and dig deeper in our pursuit to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally.
The success of our organization relies on the kind of creative thinking that can only result from a diverse team of individuals. ECRI is proud to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all employees. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, ECRI provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees.
It's what makes ECRI unique, and why we are the most trusted voice in healthcare.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Principal Healthcare Supply Chain Specialist will oversee work on large projects related to capital and supply products and will lead Sourcing projects, which will include coordinating calls with ECRI analysts, engineers, and clients; reviewing vendor RFP responses; and making purchase decision recommendations based on technical specifications, quoted pricing, and proposed service and support options. The Specialist will be responsible for reviewing, editing, and approving comparative capital and supply reports to ensure technical accuracy and proper clinical focus before they are sent to clients. In addition, the Specialist will work with Team Managers to develop new reports and service offerings, will support the Sales team by performing demos and providing sales pitch and selling strategies, and will attend and present at trade shows and conferences. The Principal Healthcare Supply Chain Specialist is a subject matter expert who will assist in all aspects of developing the Global Supply Chain Solutions team to represent ECRI's mission-driven values and continue to meet the ever-evolving needs of ECRI's member organizations.
ECRI is seeking a highly experienced Clinical Subject Matter Expert (SME) with a strong background in acute care nursing and knowledge related to the use of all @types of equipment used in the hospital setting. The SME will work with ECRI's technology teams and managers to create, edit, and review a variety of written reports to assist healthcare facilities when acquiring medical equipment and supplies. The SME will also assist ECRI members by providing clinical guidance, addressing technical questions, and recommending equipment, models, and products that best meet their requirements.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable Accommodation Statement:
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Functions:
Analyzes medical technology price quotations for capital, supply, and services from a financial perspective and provides hospitals with information and resources to facilitate price negotiations with vendors.
Analyzes utilization trends cross department and/or facility to reveal opportunities for utilization optimization that may result in cost savings and/or reduced waste.
Analyzes market alternatives and market share data to reveal potential opportunities for standardization/market shifts or to mitigate disruptions with technologies or supplies.
Identifies purchase, lease/rental, and service contract pricing benchmarks using ECRI's internal database applications.
Assists ECRI member facilities with capital inventory, planning, and budgeting
Routinely surveys client requests and feedback to identify trends, deficits, etc. Proactively encourages the use of services to clients in correlation with other requests when opportunities present themselves. Collects specific client feedback whenever possible.
Reviews/edits/approves comparative capital and supply reports before they are sent to clients. Works with individual analysts as needed to ensure techni
