Remote: Category Manager - Duarte, United States - City of Hope
Description
Category Manager - Medical Supplies
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses.
City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix.
Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission:To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
Position Summary:
The Category Manager is responsible for developing and driving category specific strategies in their assigned category with a focus on "best value" and Total Cost of Ownership.
Acting on own initiative, this position is responsible for driving strategic sourcing best practices, including RFx activities, establishing/maintaining supplier partnerships, and identifying supply risks and opportunities.
Must be solution-focused, analytical, and have a strong bias for decision making rooted in data and analytics. Being comfortable with presenting data to stakeholders to promote the sourcing strategy is vital.The Category Manager will be part of a Strategic Sourcing team at a very well established, world-class cancer research and treatment organization.
Category Management
- Facilitates best in class Category Management fundamentals to optimize price, quality, delivery, service level, and overall value.
- Develops and maintains industry knowledge of assigned category and performs related sourcing functions
- Leads RFx, negotiations, supplier sourcing, contract negotiations, and compliance / legal management for defined categories.
- Provides category and spend informatics support and analysis of business operations and financial data to identify supply risks and sourcing opportunities with regard to total cost of ownership.
- Coordinate regularly with Purchasing Operations (Buyers) and Materials Management (Inventory/Receiving) to determine root cause of supply shortages and develop mitigation strategies.
- Identify supply risks and opportunities and develop/present business cases for corresponding sourcing initiatives.
- Establish and lead cross functional teams to develop, execute and maintain cross company sourcing strategies and drive acceptance and use of a consolidated strategic supply base.
Vendor Management
- Develops, implements and manages contractual Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) to hold Suppliers accountable.
- Facilitates quarterly business reviews with key suppliers and stakeholders.
- Enforces supplier compliance with standards, policies, and procedures of enterprise, procurement department, stakeholder department, and industry best practices.
- Foster Supplier Collaboration and accountability
- Support the Supplier Diversity efforts
Your qualifications should include:
- Bachelor's Degree in General Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field.
- Three (3) or more years of work experience, specifically in the areas of Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, consulting or comparable functional experience.
- Indepth knowledge of procurement and supply chain related processes and systems.
Preferred education experience and skills:
- Master's degree
- Strategic sourcing, strong negotiation skills, business/finance data analytics
- Certified Purchasing Professional (CPP),
- Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)
- Category Management of Direct or Indirect Spend at a medical (hospital) or clinical research organization
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