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Category Manager - Supply Chain Purchasing
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, USA
Full-time
Manager · 5+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 2 days ago
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Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management, or a related field required
- Five years of experience with contracts, requests for proposals, or requests for bids required
- Health care procurement experience preferred
- Certified Purchasing Manager, Certified Professional in Supply Management, or Certified Materials and Resource Professional certification preferred
- Previous healthcare Request for Proposal/Request for Bids experience highly desired
Responsibilities
- Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Develops and executes category sourcing strategies in collaboration with stakeholders and category leadership teams
- Establishes annual savings goals and vendor management plans for assigned spend categories
- Develops competitive procurement documents, including requests for proposals and requests for information
- Collaborates with end users, reviewing parties, and stakeholders to define scope, specifications, timelines, roles, and expectations
- Coordinates bid meetings, distributes procurement documents, evaluates vendor responses, and recommends supplier awards
- Develops negotiation strategies and leads negotiations related to pricing, contractual terms, and supplier performance
- Reviews, drafts, redlines, and negotiates procurement business terms for contracts, amendments, and related agreements
- Identifies opportunities to leverage existing contracts and internal resources to meet business needs
- Prepares complete contract packages for legal review, approvals, signature routing, and records retention
- Monitors supply markets and conducts market intelligence, price benchmarking, and financial analysis to identify savings opportunities
- Develops reports and presentations related to savings, budgets, supply usage, productivity, contract performance, and benchmarking
- Performs complex financial analyses, including total cost of ownership, lease-versus-buy, and economic value models
- Calculates and reports actual and projected sourcing savings by spend category
- Identifies off-contract spend, contract opportunities, and vendor performance concerns
- Establishes key performance indicators and service-level expectations with vendors
- Conducts business reviews, develops improvement plans for underperforming vendors, and guides stakeholders on vendor management practices
- Maintains policies and procedures related to strategic sourcing, procurement, negotiations, contract processing, pricing, and compliance
- Represents the department at internal and external meetings and delivers presentations to stakeholders and leadership
Preferred Qualifications
- Health care procurement experience preferred
- Certified Purchasing Manager, Certified Professional in Supply Management, or Certified Materials and Resource Professional certification preferred
- Previous healthcare Request for Proposal/Request for Bids experience highly desired
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