**Join the Leadership team at Avera!** **Award Winning Health Care:** Avera has been named among the nation’s 15 Top Health Systems, Forbes list of America’s Best-in-State Employers and Level 10 Most Wired Health Care Organization by CHIME. **Culture:** Be part of a multidisciplinary team built on teamwork, with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter. **You Belong at Avera:** Advance Avera to the next level through innovation, side by side with a leadership team proven to help shape the future of health care. **Avera is currently seeking a highly motivated NPPC Program Manager with experience in project management.** **_Position Highlights:_** + **More than a career! Avera is a mission-driven organization focused on people and our communities.** + **As a NPPC Program Manager, manage the organization’s approach to full life cycle of projects.** + **Positive and productive team environment.** **Job Summary** + The NPPC Program Manager leads NPPC Member and Affiliate executives and system leaders to align, define, and implement strategic, transformative, high-visibility, and significantly complex initiatives for NPPC. Initiatives require engagement with all levels of leadership, operational teams, Premier, and vendors to implement contracts, strategies, or alignment programs. + The NPPC Program Manager relies on mastery level experience and independent judgement to plan and accomplish project goals, motivate and lead teams, and direct the work of others in a highly matrixed environment. + This visible role requires the ability to monitor and audit project progress, connect with health system leaders to remove barriers and escalate issues, lead team members, and act on behalf of NPPC to the vendor community. + The NPPC Program Manager is an expert in driving outcomes by leading and ensuring the successful delivery and management of single or multiple projects or programs within scope, quality, time and cost constraints that may be defined or require iterative approaches with dynamic organizational change management. This role requires relationship management with senior leaders, expertise in project management practices, tools, reporting and communications to drive desired KPIs and increase the value to the organization’s goals and strategies. Strategic Sourcing and Contracting + This position plays a crucial role in ensuring efficient and effective integration between national and regional agreements. The manager will collaborate with supply chain, service lines, department leaders and value analysis leaders to develop a plan to identify new opportunities and facilitate the renewal of existing collaborative agreements. This individual is responsible for coordinating and communicating additions and changes to new and existing agreements. The manager assists in establishing collaborative activities, goals, and strategic plan for the facilities and affiliates of the health system. This position plays a pivotal role in driving cost-effective procurement strategies, negotiating favorable contracts with suppliers, and ensuring the availability of high-quality products and services for the member health systems.​ **Work Schedule** + Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm; 80 hours every 2 weeks **Pay** The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. + $28.75 - $43.50 per hour What Makes Avera Special? (http://www.avera.org/careers/what-makes-avera-special/) The policy of Avera to provide opportunities for all qualified employees or applicants without regard to disability and to provide reasonable accommodations for all employees or applicants who may be disabled. Avera is committed to ensuring compliance in accordance with the Americans with Disability Act. For assistance, please contact HR Now at 605-504-4444. Additional Notices: For TTY, dial 711 Avera is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer: Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.