Procurement & Supply Chain

Hours: M-F 9:00am-5:00pm - hybrid 

Hourly Rate/Salary: 140k-165k

Job Summary: 

A large health system in NY, nationally recognized for their clinical excellence, is currently seeking a Clinical Category Manager to join their team.

The Category Manager will be responsible for the contracting and vendor management from the item to the relationship level. The Category Manager is an end user focused position ensuring best value for the goods and services procured by the system. This will be achieved through due diligence, strong negotiation, contracting, and management of vendor deliverables.

• Analyzes business needs and ensures that functional and technical requirements are documented.

• Develops communication strategy and establishes communication plan.
  Performs necessary investigations, analyses, and evaluations to determine feasibility.
  Prepares routine department status reports.
  Provide regular department status information to team members, including attending required meetings and following-up on action items.
  Ensures adherence to protocols, procedures, and project plans.
  Establishes departmental goals and measurements of success.
  Ensures each project deliverable has clear completion criteria and acceptance plan.
  Maintains all relevant documentation and communications.
  Provides direction and support to the department ensuring the team is informed of all changes, decisions, etc. that may affect the success of the department.

• Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships within the system to obtain information and content from providers and colleagues to foster successful project completion.

• Supports short and long term operational/strategic business activities - by developing, enhancing, and maintaining project information and models. 

• Develops and implements effective/strategic business solutions through research and analysis of data and business processes.

• Develops and manages best-practices and tools for performance improvement plan execution and management. Identifies and manages performance improvement dependencies and critical path issues.

• Serves as an operational resource for internal team members for expedited problem identification and resolution, provision of project-specific updates, and team interactions and deadlines.

• Concurrently coordinates and manages multiple projects across the Health System.

• Adheres and assists with business operations and project specific quality documents (for example: SOPs, work plans/practices, training guides).