Senior Manager IT Procurement

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Your role

The Senior Category Manager leads IT categories globally with a spend in excess of $50 million with opportunity for scope expansion, reporting to the Global Director of IT Procurement within Vantive’s Indirect Procurement team.
 

This position is responsible for procurement excellence and driving the best value for the categories under management, with key focus on cost, quality, and service. This role involves project management across several functions, business units and global sites and collaborating closely with business partners at the senior level to define priorities, establish strategic and tactical objectives, develop a multi-year category roadmap ensuring accurate alignment of requirements and supply base. Additionally, the leader in this role will continuously and proactively investigate new suppliers/technologies as inputs into our value funnel, supporting our organizational goals while helping to improve patient outcomes.

 What you'll be doing

• Collaborate with internal partners and use these relationships to create and lead category strategies, pipeline items and short/medium/long-term goals to support the ongoing delivery of product pipeline.

• Lead the supplier selection, risk assessment and contract negotiation process for key projects.

• Ensure that appropriate Supplier Relationship Management programs are in place for strategic and critical suppliers in the concerned categories of spend

• Provide regular progress updates to Senior Leadership and to key internal partners

• Lead negotiations across critical, complex and strategic supplier agreements using strong value-based techniques

• Monitor, track and report on savings and incremental value of sourcing activities

• Stimulate and support innovation by using the supplier base, regularly reviewing market developments, and mobilizing the appropriate internal network

• Be an encouraging leader within the organization on key solutions in the marketplace consistently ensuring that Vantive has line of sight to current trends in cost management

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Information Technology or Business Management

• Minimum 8+ years of category management experience with multinational organizations

• Previous experience sourcing Information Technology with an emphasis on Software/SaaS

• Proven experience in people, stakeholder and project management

• Ability to coordinate multiple parallel sourcing initiatives across different business groups

• Very strong analytic and negotiation skills

• Business sense and ability to develop critical thinking

• Experience in contracting includes but not be limited to Master Service Agreements, SaaS and Software License Agreements, Statements of Work, Amendments and NDAs

• Deep understanding of Procurement standard processes, supply markets, suppliers and products

• Ability to work in a multi-cultural and matrix environment

• Sophisticated understanding of pricing and licensing models and contracts terms

Vantive is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Vantive, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $135,000 to $170,000 annually. The estima