R. David “Dave” Edwards
Vice President of Supplier Relations and Business Development
Premier healthcare alliance
With nearly 30 years of experience in healthcare sales, marketing, and management, Dave Edwards is an enthusiastic champion of creating win/win scenarios through collaboration, particularly between healthcare providers and suppliers. He is an energetic leader with a proven record of sales success with a Fortune 50 company, a start-up-device company and as a partner in a small medical manufacturer. Now an executive with the Premier healthcare alliance, his talents for motivating people, synthesizing complex ideas and building strong relationships across the healthcare supply chain, along with his engaging personality, make Dave one of the industry’s authorities on driving strategy, collaboration and organizational improvements.
Dave is responsible for supplier relations, contract uptake (sales) and business development. During his 12-year tenure with Premier, he has been instrumental in propelling the alliance’s purchasing volume from $12 to $40 billion. He was the principal architect of Premier’s field force strategy, and later created Premier’s supplier relations framework – widely regarded as the most effective such models in the industry.
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