Brent Johnson is Vice President of Supply Chain & Support Services, Chief Purchasing Officer for Intermountain Healthcare based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is responsible for the $1.5 billion non-labor spend of the company that supports 23 hospitals and160 clinics. In his responsibilities he directs over 600 employees that support the corporate functions of warehousing, strategic sourcing, purchasing, material systems, couriers, travel services and central laundry. He has additional corporate responsibilities over Clinical Engineering, Environmental Services, Food & Nutrition and Linen Management.

He has a passion for supply chain management and has over 30 years of senior management and consulting experience applying best practices.

He was hired in June of 2005, as a result of a national search by Intermountain Healthcare to lead a new supply chain strategy for the company. In the past eight years Brent has created an industry “top 25 Gartner” Supply Chain Organization which has achieved over $250 million savings…ranked #4 in 2013.

In 2012, Intermountain Healthcare opened a new Supply Chain Center. It’s a $40 M, 325,000 sq. ft. complex that has everything supply chain under one roof, including 350 employees and the following functions: purchasing, accounts payable, sourcing, analytics, systems, many programs and other ancillary services. Additionally there is a state-of-the-art central distribution center and large in-house courier service.

He has an MBA from the University of Utah. He resides in Centerville, UT and has four children and fifteen grandchildren.