AVP Control Tower and Inventory Strategy

Description

Calling All Esteemed Leaders! Are you a strategic supply chain executive with deep expertise in analytics, inventory strategy, and enterprise operations? Do you thrive at the intersection of data, technology, and complex healthcare supply chains-driving resilience, visibility, and performance at scale? This senior leadership opportunity invites your capabilities.

The Role

The AVP of Control Tower and Inventory Strategy is a senior executive responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing an enterprisewide supply chain control tower for the healthcare ecosystem. This leader oversees realtime visibility, predictive analytics, and orchestrated response across suppliers, distributors, providers, and internal supply chain teams. The AVP ensures resilience, reliability, and agility across the supply chain while driving cost, quality, and performance improvements.

This role acts as the strategic integrator between data, technology, operations, and partner networks, ensuring situational awareness and coordinated action across the healthcare supply chain.

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position advocates cuttingedge strategies for data analysis using historical purchasing trends to inform future forecasts and inventory needs; maintains progressive strategies to improve the creation and analysis of demand forecasts; performs return on investment (ROI) analysis for centrally owned inventory; and drives strategic improvements to identify, communicate, and resolve highly complex and highimpact product shortages, including escalation management.

The role further champions innovative strategies for identifying acceptable alternatives for shortage items in partnership with sourcing, suppliers, and clinicians; ensures effective communication to suppliers, vendors, and supply chain teams; champions stateoftheart spendsavings strategies in partnership with Finance; maintains progressive strategies to improve inventory readiness and depletion for new products and conversions; guides development of innovative automated replenishment strategies across the majority of inventory categories; establishes statistical stock and par levels at the point of consumption; and champions innovative strategies for inventory data and analysis.

What You'll Do

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Develop and execute the longterm vision for a digital, analyticsdriven Control Tower that improves transparency, responsiveness, and decisionmaking across the healthcare supply chain.
• Define the operating model, governance, service lines, and performance metrics for the Control Tower.
• Serve as an enterprise authority on supply chain risk, resilience, and endtoend visibility strategies.

Control Tower Operations

• Lead realtime monitoring of supply, demand, inventory, logistics, and disruptions across the supplier-provider ecosystem.
• Oversee triage, escalation, and mitigation processes for shortages, delays, recalls, emergent events, and market volatility.
• Ensure proactive alerts, scenario planning, and predictive risk modeling are integrated into decision workflows.
• Ensure adequate inventory levels are maintained through innovative disruptionresolution strategies, advanced transaction and ordering processes, progressive approaches to minimizing obsolescence and expiration, and longterm maintenance of complex reorder levels to support product rotation and inventory accuracy.
• Serve as an expert internal consultant and external spokesperson for enterprise inventory control initiatives.
• Maintain and continuously improve supply chain operations.
• Ensure purchasing strategies are consistent with overall sourcing strategies.

Technology, Data & Analytics Enablement

• Partner with IT, data engineering, product, and analytics teams to design and enhance platforms supporting the Control Tower.
• Champion advanced analytics, AI/ML, predictive modeling, and digitaltwin capabilities to anticipate supply chain risk.
• Drive integration of internal and external data streams, ensuring data quality, interoperability, and realtime availability.

Collaboration, Performance & Risk Management

• Act as the primary liaison with manufacturers, distributors, providers, GPOs, logistics partners, internal business units, and executive leadership.
• Facilitate crossfunctional alignment and response during disruptions or crisis events.
• Establish KPIs, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to support visibility and accountability.
• Drive continuous improvement through rootcause analysis, process refinement, and bestpractice adoption.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements related to supply chain transparency and operational readiness.
• Lead enterprise supply chain risk assessments, vulnerability analysis, and resiliency planning.
• Develop disruptionresponse playbooks to ensure continuity of supply for critical medical products.
• Monitor geopolitical, economic, manufacturing, and logistics trends to anticipate external risks.

Team Leadership & Development

• Build and lead a highperforming Control Tower team with expertise in operations, analytics, supply chain, and incident management.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Support key projects across Supply Chain, as needed.

What You'll Bring

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Administration, Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field
• Master's Degree in Business, Administration, Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field (preferred)

Experience & Expertise

• Ten (10) or more years of experience in supply chain operations, logistics, or healthcare supply chain leadership
• Demonstrated experience designing or leading a supply chain Control Tower or similar realtime operational center
• Proven track record leveraging advanced analytics and digital technologies for operational improvement
• Experience leading crossfunctional teams in complex, multistakeholder environments
• Experience within healthcare provider, distributor, manufacturer, or GPO settings (preferred)
• Familiarity with AI/ML, digital twins, advanced analytics, or ERP/SCM platforms (preferred)
• Knowledge of healthcare product categories, sourcing strategies, resiliency approaches, and regulatory environments

Leadership Capabilities

• Strategic and systems thinking
• Datadriven decisionmaking
• Executive presence and communication skills
• Crisis and risk management expertise
• Strong relationshipbuilding and influence skills
• Operational excellence and continuous improvement mindset
• Change leadership and innovation capability

Why Join Us?

• Enterprise Impact: Shape the resilience and responsiveness of a healthcare supply chain at scale.
• Strategic Visibility: Influence decisionmaking across suppliers, providers, and executive leadership.
• InnovationDriven Role: Lead advanced analytics, automation, and predictive strategies.
• Collaborative Environment: Partner closely with clinicians, operators, suppliers, and technology leaders.
• PurposeDriven Work: Ensure critical supplies reach caregivers and patients when they are needed most.
• Enterprise Impact: Shape the resilience and responsiveness of a healthcare supply chain at scale.
• Strategic Visibility: Influence decisionmaking across suppliers, providers, and executive leadership.
• InnovationDriven Role: Lead advanced analytics, automation, and predictive strategies.
• Collaborative Environment: Partner closely with clinicians, operators, suppliers, and technology leaders.
• PurposeDriven Work: Ensure critical supplies reach caregivers and patients when they are needed most.

Ready to Shape the Future of Healthcare?

If you are a forwardthinking supply chain leader with a passion for analytics, inventory strategy, and enterprise transformation, we encourage you to apply. Step into this influential role and help define the future of healthcare supply chain performance and resilience.

The full pay range is listed in accordance with applicable law. Final compensation will be determined based on qualifications, experience, organizational compensation alignment, and the approved hiring department budget for the position. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation and benefits.

At Providence we believe in the importance of human connection and the impact of in-person collaboration towards team cohesion and caregiver engagement. Further, we want our leaders to live in or near the communities we serve. Therefore, leaders applying for this role will be required to work a hybrid schedule, which consists ofthree days onsite, two days remote and live within a reasonable commuting

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