The healthcare industry is facing a crisis of escalating costs at every level: some categories are growing 15-20% per year. The healthcare landscape is rapidly evolving with numerous new product categories and vendors emerging as well as many established large, sophisticated vendors who continue to increase the number of their products and the complexity of their pricing structures. Given all their many other pressing priorities, few healthcare organizations are able to maintain a best practice procurement process that consistently preserves the organizations resources through effective price negotiations and protects against future surprises through prudent contract terms and conditions.
Brookside Group levels the playing field between our clients and their vendors in terms of subject matter expertise, access to current market data and deep procurement experience. While procurement strategies like demand aggregation, outsourced contracting (GPO model) and reverse auctions can be effective when sourcing commodity supply items, in many spend categories there is no substitute for inserting an experienced professional at the point of purchase to ensure best in class prices and terms from even the largest and most entrenched vendors.
Jim has a broad business background and a passion for exceptional client service developed over a 25-year career focused in technology-enabled business services. His sincere desire to fully understand client needs and concerns and then develop customized solutions to deliver on agreed-upon objectives and targets earned him successively higher positions with a number of leading firms in the procurement and vendor management field. Starting in 2002 Jim served as President North America for recovery audit leader PRG-Schultz where he was responsible for running a business providing guaranteed financial recovery results to procurement executives at dozens of Fortune 500 corporations as well as a number of the largest healthcare provider organizations in the US. Immediately prior to joining Brookside Group Jim was part of the senior leadership team at spend management firm NPI where he focused on developing operational capabilities and growing the multi-industry reach of NPI. Jim holds a degree in Economics from Lafayette College.
Our people drive our business. We recruit experienced subject matter and procurement professionals who are passionate about delivering superior results for our clients. The skill and experience of our people along with up to date market intelligence make Brookside Group uniquely effective in driving results for our clients. Our people choose Brookside Group thanks to the diversity of assignments, challenging work environment and attractive compensation we are able to provide.