Category Manager I/II

Experience with strategic sourcing, supply chain purchasing, contracting strategy/terms and conditions, supplier relations/negotiations, and large-scale procurement operations.
Experience with financial and data analysis.
Experience overseeing large-scale complex projects, communications, stakeholders, and risks.
Experience in strategy development, delivering significant financial, quality, and service results.
Experience working in healthcare supply chain procurement (e.g., sourcing, contracting, purchasing).
Mastery in strategic sourcing/category management and contracting.

Quarterback assigned Service Lines’ supply chain strategies.
Proactively prioritize and drive work efforts to completion.
Recommend unbiased, data-driven opportunities.
Manage the contract lifecycle portfolio.
Spearhead relevant stakeholder and supplier relationships while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for non-labor spend.
Orchestrate the support work of the broader team (e.g., data mining/analytics, external pricing and utilization benchmarking, contracting language, negotiation/sourcing).
Efficiently leverage internal resources to offer the best product (e.g., supplies, capital, services, equipment, software).
Provide well-thought out and holistic recommendations that balance product quality, formulary compliance, timing, complexity to implement/convert, and preferred supplier partnerships.
Work within the Procurement Supply Chain Organization (SCO) function, cross-functionally, with other hospital organizations and with the broader SCO to meet goals and improve processes and outcomes.

Undergraduate degree.
Five years of industry expertise in healthcare contracting and sourcing.
Extensive knowledge of healthcare supply chain, pharma, product, service, software, and equipment knowledge.