Senior IT Analyst, Supply Chain Applications

Ardent Health is a leading provider of healthcare in growing mid-sized urban communities across the U.S. With a focus on people and investments in innovative services and technologies, Ardent is passionate about making healthcare better and easier to access. Through its subsidiaries, Ardent delivers care through a system of 30 acute care hospitals, 24,000+ team members and more than 280 sites of care with over 1,800 affiliated providers across six states.

POSITION SUMMARY

The overall responsibility of the Senior IT Analyst, Supply Chain Applications is to provide functional support, design, instruction, oversight and guidance of the supply chain applications to enable the achievement of success in the Ardent business operation. These responsibilities include but are not limited to: developing system strategies with management and other stakeholders, conducting business needs analyses, identifying and mitigating project risks, supporting the applications users and assisting in the implementation of financial application projects.

• Provides system expertise facilitating ongoing analysis, maintenance, technical and functional support for application suite.
• Develops functional requirements, specifications and system design for business requests.
• Develops or oversees the development of system documentation, user manuals and training for application suite.
• Leads testing efforts and ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
• Evaluates current state processes and identifies gaps to future state process around utilization of applications to maximize departmental and organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Prioritizes and resolves issues.
• Exhibits confidence and an extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems.
• Effectively lead project work by applying project standards and enforcing project deadlines and schedules.
• Develops and fosters relationships with business stakeholders to manage expectations effectively, introduce innovative solutions and increase customer satisfaction.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent business experience, required in IT, Accounting, Finance or Procurement
• 5 years experience in Supply Chain IT functions
• Heavy Procurement/Financials background from discovery, setup/system configuration, testing, implementation and post go live support.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Proficient knowledge of ERPs (Infor/Lawson, Oracle, or Workday).
• Experience with MSCM.
• Healthcare experience.

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