Careers at Consorta
Supply Chain Business Analysts
Reports to:
Director, Data Management
Location:
Schaumburg, Illinois
Position Summary:
Responsible for identifying savings opportunities and maximizing
the value and usage of the contract portfolio through the analysis
of contract and hospital spend data. Position requires continuous
and successful interaction with staff from hospital supply chain and
materials management departments, Consorta, HealthTrust Purchasing
Group, and MedAssets Analytical Systems. Requires the ability to
acquire, assimilate, and analyze data from multiple systems and data
sources utilizing a variety of business intelligence and reporting
tools.
Education:
B.A. / B.S. degree in business, health care, and/or information
technology or related field is required.
Responsibilities:
- Support the execution and delivery of Consorta’s Supply
Chain Analytics program on behalf of participating Shareholders
through the analysis of GPO contract and hospital spend data.
- Prepare and publish monthly contract audit and savings
opportunity reports per Shareholder’s direction utilizing the
MedAssets Strategic Information (SI) portal and supporting
tools.
- Work with and respond to ad hoc requests for information
from Shareholder supply chain, materials management, and value
analysis teams, Consorta and HPG member services, finance, and
contracting.
- Participate in monthly review meetings with Shareholder
staff to present, review and track identified opportunities.
- Assist in the periodic auditing of contract administrative
fee and rebate remittance.
- Support internal and external requests for information and
reports from Consorta’s reporting system, COSMOS™ and ensure
external customers’ inquires are handled in an efficient manner.
- Provide assistance to other areas of the department as
needed.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
Experience:
- Minimum of two years of experience in complex data analysis
projects in the healthcare, financial or information services
industry, with an emphasis on business or financial analysis.
- Minimum of two years of experience utilizing Microsoft Excel
in support of data analysis projects. Proficiency in managing
workbooks consisting of multiple, large worksheets, utilizing
advanced formulas and lookup functions, pivot tables, and
charts.
- General working knowledge of health care materials
management information systems (MMIS) or other data acquisition
and retrieval systems strongly preferred.
- General knowledge of supply chain concepts, preferably in a
hospital/provider setting, strongly preferred.
- Experience with business intelligence tools such as Business
Objects, COGNOS, Crystal Reports, etc. strongly preferred.
- Experience with personal database tools, such as Microsoft
Access, desired.
- Knowledge of relational database concepts and proficiency
with SQL desired.
- Acts in an independent manner, with minimal supervision;
ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects for which
timeliness and accuracy are critical.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills required.
Must be comfortable interacting with and presenting to senior
management in supply chain and materials management areas within
Consorta’s membership.
Submit resume now:
email: hr@consorta.com
fax: (847) 517-2912