Michael Costante

Vice President Supply Chain Operations @Vizient

Chicago, IL, US

Advise CEO and other executives on outsourcing strategy, growth, data, services, and markets as executive team member. • Oversee ongoing operations of clients at 19 acute care facilities, including their sourcing strategy, policies, purchasing, price accuracy, warehouse, replenishment, clinical evidence value analysis, contracts, P&L, and more functions. • Recruit, train, evaluate, develop, and retain 42 staff, including 12 direct reports running supply chain at 19 hospital systems. • Improve client hospital care delivery quality and costs by giving remote and onsite talent, best practices, and cost savings. • Grow revenue by projecting long-term route of client business strategy and develop solutions for their unmet needs. • Increase account usage, satisfaction, knowledge, retention, upsells, and cross-sells as a supply chain subject matter expert. • Enable supply chain outsourcing revenue growth by creating and expanding relationships with clinical and administrative executives at large, complex medical facilities. • Support new contract proposals, agreements, scope of work, specifications, procedures, staffing, and price quote analysis. Select Achievements • Empower revenue growth by creating value-based supply chain outsourcing solutions, remote service delivery, and writing and presenting data case studies as a SME. • Delivered savings to key accounts by delivering on the unmet needs of clinical and administrative staff. • During COVID-19, PPI was provided at reduced cost at client facilities through contract maximization and standardization. • Improved team performance, culture, and trust via impactful engagement, communication, and change management.

Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Illinois State University

Bachelor of Science - BS