Category Manager (Remote - United States)

About the role

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Here, you will make an impact by managing the commercial, strategic, and tactical operational relationships with contract manufacturing suppliers to ensure product availability.

Responsibilities

• Manage the commercial, strategic, and tactical operational relationships with contract manufacturing suppliers to ensure product availability through developing and maintaining a competitive supply base for Solventum.
• Manage and partner with suppliers to develop business relationships that deliver effective operational control to agreed performance levels across service, cost, quality, and working capital through contractual agreements, periodic business reviews, and scorecards.
• Identify, lead, and implement solutions to complex and multifaceted situations, including contract negotiations, category strategies, supplier management, internal and external sourcing decisions, and dual-sourcing strategies.
• Engage key affiliates across Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Business Teams, Regulatory, and other functions to ensure timely issue resolution and successful completion of strategic business initiatives.
• Develop continuous supply chain improvement practices to enhance value and performance through lead time reductions, increased supply chain agility, capacity optimization, cost reduction initiatives, and risk assessment and mitigation activities.
• Lead and support, as needed, the RFP/RFQ process, contract negotiations, benchmarking activities, make-versus-buy evaluations, should-cost analyses, total cost analyses, supply chain mapping efforts, and New Product Introduction initiatives.
• Manage one or more procurement processes as a Subject Matter Expert within the Purchased Finished Goods team, including make-versus-buy evaluations, sub-tier supplier management and consolidation efforts, and programmatic savings stage-gate transitions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• Seven (7) years of experience in a third-party supply chain and/or category management environment, including experience managing and developing supplier relationships and negotiating contracts
• Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
• Experience resolving complex supply chain issues involving multiple stakeholders through negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making activities
• Experience communicating and collaborating with stakeholders at multiple levels of an organization
• Experience applying knowledge of Supply Chain Finance, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), product validation requirements, or regulatory expectations
• Experience successfully collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on complex projects
• Project management experience managing timelines, resources and risk (across various functional area stakeholders e.g. influencing without authority) to ensure projects deliver desired expectations with respect to completion and cost targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
• Seven (7) years of experience in a third-party supply chain and/or category management environment, including experience managing and developing supplier relationships and negotiating contracts
• Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
• Experience resolving complex supply chain issues involving multiple stakeholders through negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making activities
• Experience communicating and collaborating with stakeholders at multiple levels of an organization
• Experience applying knowledge of Supply Chain Finance, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), product validation requirements, or regulatory expectations
• Experience successfully collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on complex projects
• Project management experience managing timelines, resources and risk (across various functional area stakeholders e.g. influencing without authority) to ensure projects deliver desired expectations with respect to completion and cost targets.

Benefits

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. Applicable to US Applicants Only: The expected compensation range for this position is $125,600 - $172,700, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-Rewards

Pay

The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-Rewards

Schedule

Remote in the United States (preferred Eagan, MN or San Antonio, TX)

Relocation Assistance

Not authorized

Work Location

Remote in the United States (preferred Eagan, MN or San Antonio, TX)

Travel

May include up to 10% domestic or international

Equal Opportunity Employer

Solventum is an equal opportunity employer. Solventum will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.