Sr Category Manager

Job Description

The Strategic Sourcing Senior Category Manager is a highly visible position with accountability at the system level to develop and execute sourcing initiatives for medical devices and supplies. This position will assist in the management of $50M in aggregate spend.

Responsibilities

• Assess opportunities and formulate sourcing strategies
• Co-lead a system-wide value analysis team
• Interact with business partners and key stakeholders
• Build strategic alliances with key stakeholders as it relates to successfully executing our Supply Chain Strategy
• Negotiate industry leading national agreements for the group purchasing organization in the area of Purchased Services
• Ensure best in class industry pricing and contract terms and conditions
• Focus on sourcing initiatives primarily services applicable to healthcare and non-healthcare clients
• Manage medium to high spend, complexity, risk and sensitivity sourcing categories
• May have some responsibility for other types of categories for the purposes of development and workload allocation
• Identify cost savings opportunities and mitigate business/contractual risk
• Interpret complex internal or external business issues and take a broad perspective in identifying and executing solutions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and five years of relevant experience
• Relevant experience would include clinical practice and post graduate fellowship

Qualifications

• Thorough understanding of contract terms and conditions
• Independent problem-solving skills
• Ability to identify cost savings opportunities and mitigate risk
• Knowledge or prior experience in principles and concepts related to sourcing and contract management

Skills

• Expert negotiator with established customer trust
• Proficient in mitigating business/contractual risk
• Adept at identifying new areas for contracting
• Broad perspective in identifying and executing solutions

Benefits

Equal Opportunity Employer

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