System Director, Supply Chain - Clinical Supply Chain - F/T - Days

UCI Health is the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine, and the only academic health system based in Orange County. UCI Health is comprised of its main campus, UCI Medical Center, a 459-bed, acute care hospital in in Orange, Calif., four hospitals and affiliated physicians of the UCI Health Community Network in Orange and Los Angeles counties and ambulatory care centers across the region. Listed among America's Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for 23 consecutive years, UCI Medical Center provides tertiary and quaternary care and is home to Orange County's only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, high-risk perinatal/neonatal program and American College of Surgeons-verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, gold level 1 geriatric emergency department and regional burn center. UCI Health serves a region of nearly 4 million people in Orange County, western Riverside County and southeast Los Angeles County.

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Position Summary:

The System Director, Supply Chain Operations and Clinical Integration is responsible for the operational leadership, administrative oversight, and systemwide coordination of all supply chain operations. The incumbent is accountable for the performance of supply chain operations ensuring consistent, high-performing, and reliable supply chain execution across the health system, including financial accountability for all assigned functions. This role maintains accountability for the operational performance of inventory management, distribution, logistics, and nursing and clinical supply execution across all facilities, including perioperative, procedural, and ambulatory environments, and is responsible for establishing systemwide standards, ensuring efficient supply chain operations that support the delivery of safe patient care. The System Director leads and optimizes a unified enterprise ERP platform across all hospitals and ambulatory sites, ensuring data integrity, standardized workflows, and real-time visibility into supply chain performance and financial outcomes. This position partners closely with Strategic Sourcing and Contracting leadership to translate contracting strategy into operational execution and value realization across the enterprise, and advises executive leadership on how supply chain operations and clinical integration may impact organizational strategy. The System exercises wide latitude of authority in determining departmental goals and measures to achieve systemwide supply chain operational and clinical integration objectives.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong problem-solving skills to address issues when no precedent exists and to develop creative alternatives.

• Strong operational and financial acumen in supply chain performance

• Strong ability to effectively manage multiple priorities in a complex, challenging environment. Demonstrated adaptability and flexibility to anticipate problems and implement resolution.

• Skills to forecast talent needs, and encourage leadership development for succession planning.

• Minimum 10 years of progressive leadership experience in health system supply chain operations

• Demonstrated experience leading or operating within a large-scale enterprise ERP environment across multiple hospitals or sites

• Demonstrated experience leading directors, managers, and supervisors

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Ability to influence and collaborate with clinical, operational, and executive stakeholders

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the Health System

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with regulatory and accreditation standards

• Experience with ERP optimization, reporting, and system integration

• Experience in academic health systems

Total Rewards

We offer a wealth of benefits to make working at UCI even more rewarding. These benefits may include medical insurance, sick and vacation time, retirement savings plans, and access to a number of discounts and perks. Please utilize the links listed here to learn more about our compensation practices and benefits.

Conditions of Employment:

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) seeks to provide a safe and healthy environment for the entire UCI community. As part of this commitment, all applicants who accept an offer of employment must comply with the following conditions of employment:

• Background Check and Live Scan
• Employment Misconduct*
• Legal Right to Work in the United States
• Vaccination Policies
• Smoking and Tobacco Policy
• Drug Free Environment

*Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

The following additional conditions may apply, some of which are dependent upon business unit or job specific requirements.

• California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act
• E-Verify
• Pre-Placement Health Evaluation

Details of each policy may be reviewed by visiting the following page: https://hr.uci.edu/new-hire/conditions-of-employment.php

Closing Statement:

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC Anti-Discrimination Policy.

We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce along with honoring unique experiences, perspectives, and identities. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, and welcoming.

UCI provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities upon request. For more information, please contact UCI's Employee Experience Center (EEC) at eec@uci.edu or at (949) 824-0500, Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.