• Provide analytical and data driven recommendations to the Value Analysis Committees regarding cost savings, product/service standardization, quality improvement, or operational efficiencies. • Work in concert with sourcing/contracting to achieve best value for OHSU. • Document savings generated from cost savings initiatives. • Responsible for participating in achieving the annual healthcare savings goal of approximately $5,000,000 per fiscal year. • Act as a liaison between Logistics, OHSU departments, vendors, senior administration, and Group Purchasing Organization. • Manage Value Analysis Committee for established commodity groups by planning and facilitating committee meetings and communications. • Represent Logistics on other decision-making, planning, and investigative committees as needed. • Monitor current market for established commodity groups and analyze for opportunities based on cost savings, product/service standardization, quality improvement, or operational efficiencies. • Fully understand Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) contract portfolio and program offerings. • Watch market trends for new technologies or changes in standards that may yield value to OHSU. • Provide leadership and coordination on product conversions. • Utilize advanced project management tools to create, track, and manage project tasks, time constraints, and physical and personnel resources. • Screens, analyzes, and processes all new product requests submitted to each Value Analysis Committee. • Ensure compliance of all new stocked product requests with current standardization and cost containment initiatives. • Analyze purchase options and sourcing for new product requests to assess value of request. • Develop and lead end-to-end project plans and ensure on-time delivery of initiatives. • Identify and communicate project risks, progress, launches and retrospectives across all stakeholders and teams consistently and transparently. • Define and build common processes across multiple teams. • Create change management and communication plans to drive adoption of new initiatives.