Steven Chyung

Steven Chyung is senior vice president and chief supply chain and procurement executive at Kaiser Permanente.

Chyung’s work directly supports Kaiser Permanente’s mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care and to improve the health of the communities it serves. By aligning supply chain and procurement strategy with clinical and operational priorities, he helps advance Kaiser Permanente’s value-based care model — supporting improved outcomes, greater access, and responsible stewardship of resources. His leadership focuses on reliability, standardization, and long-term value, and enables evidence-based care delivery while managing total third-party cost across the organization.

In his role, Chyung leads Kaiser Permanente’s enterprise supply chain and procurement organization, with accountability for strategic sourcing, procurement, and supply operations that support care delivery. He is responsible for ensuring product availability, strengthening supply resilience, advancing sustainable and responsible sourcing practices, and partnering with clinical and operational leaders to reduce unwarranted variation in care. Through this work, Chyung helps ensure members receive safe, timely, and high-quality care while supporting Kaiser Permanente’s commitments to affordability, community health, and environmental stewardship.

Chyung joined Kaiser Permanente in 2022 from SCL Health, where he served as senior vice president, Supply Chain and Real Estate. At SCL Health, he built and led shared services that included supply chain, clinical engineering, facilities, planning and construction, and real estate.

Previously, he held several leadership positions with Novartis, both in Europe and the U.S., where his responsibilities included establishing global service centers and leading procurement operations.

He also worked at Kearney, a management consulting firm, on a wide variety of operational and strategic initiatives for top global companies.

Chyung earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.