Category Manager, Direct Materials

Changing lives. Building Careers.

Joining us is a chance for you to do important work that creates change and shapes the future of healthcare. Thinking differently is what we do best. To us, change equals opportunity. Every day, more than 4,000 of us are challenging what’s possible and making headway to help improve outcomes.

The ideal candidate for this position will exhibit the following skills and competencies:

• Customer Focus: Ensuring that the internal or external customer’s perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual activities, crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and the organization’s needs; promoting and operationalizing customer service as a value.

• Decision Making: Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences.

• Driving for Results: Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.

• Driving Innovation: Creating an environment (culture) that inspires people to generate novel solutions with measurable value for existing and potential customers (internal or external) ; encouraging experimentation with new ways to solve work problems and seize opportunities that result in unique and differentiated solutions.

• Emotional Intelligence Essentials: Establishing and sustaining trusting relationships by accurately perceiving and interpreting own and others’ emotions and behavior; leveraging insights to effectively manage own responses so that one’s behavior matches one’s values and delivers intended results.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development, implementation, management, and performance of sourcing strategies within a given Category, to meet business goals and objectives.

• Manages the assessment, selection and development of strategic suppliers to meet commodity cost and performance goals.

• Managing supplier relationships, performing root cause analysis and resolutions, developing and monitoring supplier improvement plans

• Establishes a strong network and fosters collaboration with customers, suppliers, key stakeholders and team members.

• Research and benchmarks current commodity market conditions/trends, developing technologies, supply chain capacity/capability, product knowledge, customer requirements and supply/demand challenges.

• Responsible for the procurement of contracts including the management of cost, schedule and performance parameters. Developing contract specifications, work statements, and terms & conditions.

• Develops bid packages, conducts bidders’ conferences, analyses and evaluates proposals, negotiates subcontract provisions, selects or recommends subcontractors, writes awards, and manages resulting subcontracts.

• Maintains vendor performance database and report metrics to Supply Chain management.

Qualifications:

• Lead the delivery of savings year pipeline and guarantee individual projects as defined as part of the Annual Category plan with a Business Partnering and Category Management mindset.

• Focus on project delivery with activities including requirements gathering, market analysis, qualifying and selecting suppliers with the relevant Business Partners and stakeholders, as well as non-sourcing projects such as demand management and process improvement.

• Manage Key account supplier relationships and guarantee strategy alignment between global and local operating model.

• Lead the development of annual procurement business plans and tactical plans in line with agreed sourcing strategy, ensuring full alignment with divisional and group targets, and set stretch targets for the team, benchmarking versus best-in-class external organizations, and measure achievement of objectives against KPIs.

• Identification of sourcing strategies (preferred suppliers, outsourcing) and identify, engage and manage the relationships with key internal clients and external suppliers, and exert significant influence to drive procurement projects.

• Direct the negotiation of agreements and lead the establishment of contracts to decrease total cost with specified quality and service levels and e