Administrator, System Stewardship & Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing

Drive enterprise-wide transformation, strengthen financial stewardship, and help shape the future of operational excellence at UVA Health.

UVA Health is seeking an accomplished Administrator, System Stewardship & Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing to lead high-impact initiatives that optimize organizational resources, improve financial performance, and advance strategic sourcing across our academic health system.

This highly visible leadership position offers a unique opportunity to partner with senior executives, influence system-wide strategy, and translate complex improvement opportunities into measurable financial and operational results. The successful candidate will bring a strong combination of strategic sourcing expertise, financial acumen, executive collaboration, and disciplined program execution.

The Role

As Administrator, System Stewardship & Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing, you will provide strategic leadership for enterprise-wide stewardship initiatives, supply chain optimization, and complex transformation projects.

Working in a dual-reporting structure with Supply Chain and system executive leadership, you will collaborate across Finance, Clinical Operations, Revenue Cycle, Facilities, Information Technology, Human Resources, and other departments to identify opportunities, establish accountability, and deliver sustainable improvements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead enterprise-wide stewardship and expense optimization initiatives, identifying opportunities to improve financial margins, reduce unnecessary expenditures, and strengthen resource utilization.
• Develop and execute strategic sourcing initiatives across clinical, non-clinical, purchased services, capital, and other major spending categories.
• Establish governance structures, project management methodologies, and accountability frameworks to support system-wide improvement initiatives.
• Manage a portfolio of high-impact transformation projects, overseeing initiatives from opportunity identification through implementation, performance measurement, and benefits realization.
• Partner with executive leaders, physicians, and operational stakeholders to align financial improvement strategies with patient care, quality, and organizational priorities.
• Lead complex sourcing activities, including RFPs, RFQs, supplier evaluations, contract negotiations, and strategic supplier selection.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings and cost avoidance through contract optimization, standardization, utilization management, supplier consolidation, and improved purchasing strategies.
• Establish annual savings targets and monitor projected and realized financial benefits in collaboration with Finance and operational leadership.
• Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, and performance indicators to track stewardship initiatives, contract compliance, supply expenses, supplier performance, and realized savings.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams through complex organizational change, establishing project milestones, identifying risks, resolving barriers, and maintaining accountability for results.
• Strengthen supplier relationships through executive business reviews, performance management, contract compliance, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Evaluate group purchasing organization (GPO) opportunities, total cost of ownership, and value-based sourcing strategies.
• Facilitate executive governance meetings, develop strategic recommendations, and communicate progress and outcomes to senior leadership.
• Champion a culture of financial accountability and continuous improvement, ensuring stewardship initiatives deliver sustainable value without compromising clinical quality or service excellence.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, analytically driven leader with demonstrated success managing complex sourcing, financial improvement, or enterprise transformation initiatives.

This individual will bring strong executive communication skills, advanced project and program management capabilities, and the ability to influence stakeholders across diverse clinical and operational environments.

Success requires someone who can see the big picture while maintaining accountability for execution, translate financial and operational data into actionable strategies, and build partnerships that produce measurable, sustainable results.

Why UVA Health

At UVA Health, responsible stewardship is essential to advancing our mission of exceptional patient care, education, research, and innovation.

As an academic health system, UVA Health brings together clinical expertise, operational leadership, and organizational resources to support high-quality care while maintaining long-term financial sustainability.

This position offers a distinctive opportunity to influence how UVA Health manages resources, executes strategic priorities, and delivers value across the enterprise.

What makes this opportunity compelling:

• Enterprise-Wide Strategic Influence: Collaborate directly with senior executive leadership to advance financial stewardship, supply chain strategy, and organizational performance.
• High-Visibility Leadership: Guide initiatives with significant financial and operational implications, presenting recommendations and results to executive teams and governance committees.
• Opportunity to Build and Transform: Establish disciplined governance, project management, and performance measurement frameworks that strengthen organizational accountability.
• Meaningful Financial Impact: Lead initiatives that improve financial margins, optimize spending, and ensure resources are used effectively to support patient care.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with leaders across Finance, Supply Chain, Clinical Operations, Revenue Cycle, Facilities, Information Technology, and Human Resources.
• Innovation and Strategic Sourcing: Advance contemporary sourcing practices, supplier partnerships, analytics, and value-based purchasing strategies.
• Lasting Organizational Impact: Help create sustainable improvements that strengthen operational performance and support UVA Health's long-term strategic priorities.

This is more than a traditional supply chain or financial improvement leadership position. It is an opportunity to connect enterprise strategy with operational execution, lead meaningful organizational transformation, and help ensure UVA Health continues to deliver exceptional care through responsible resource stewardship.

Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Education: Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree preferred.

Experience: 10 years of relevant professional experience, to include 7 years of formal managerial experience required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Retirement Savings
• Long-term and Short-term Disability
• Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Certification and Education Support

UVA Health is a world-class Magnet Recognized academic medical center and health system with a level 1 trauma center. 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report "Best Hospitals" guide rates UVA Health University Medical Center as "High Performing" in 5 adult specialties and 14 conditions/procedures. We are one of 70 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers. UVA Health Children's is named by 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report as the best children's hospital in Virginia with 9 specialties ranked among the best in the nation. Our footprint also encompasses 3 community hospitals and an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics throughout Charlottesville, Culpeper, Northern Virginia, and beyond.

The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA's commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.