Job Details

Manager - Category Management

Develops sourcing strategies for specified categories to achieve key organizational and departmental goals. Works with hospital administrative departments, clinicians, physicians and hospital executives to facilitate adoption and standardization of services and products that improve patient safety, quality of care, operational efficiencies and cost reduction efforts throughout the organization. Provides leadership and oversight of contracts professional/paraprofessional team members.

Leadership

• Strong mentor skills for Contract Specialists.
• Strategic vision and development/implementation of strategy.

Persuasion

• Strong communication skills - esp toward executive and clinical providers.
• Ability to influence change and successfully navigate resistance.

Analytical

• Ability to read contract and interpret technical business legal language.
• Strong analytical skills - Excel (intermediate to advanced - pivot tables, lookup tables, etc).
• Ability to pull multiple data sets, organize and analyze, and ultimately prep into a strategic presentation.

Essential Functions

• All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's purpose: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
• Secures data from suppliers and internal sources, and performs analysis of findings to develop, implement, and monitor supplier strategies and relationships.
• Ensures contract portfolio is effective, efficient, meets the requirements of the system and is optimized between the GPO and local contracts/agreements.
• Creates strategic alliances with suppliers to leverage volume and optimize prices and spending.
• Monitors markets to understand changes and product introductions to ensure contract portfolio remains relevant to market conditions.
• Provides leadership in the creation of scorecards and communicates feedback with strategic suppliers to drive tangible improvements.
• Manages contract life cycles to ensure a strategy is in place when contracts are close to expiration.
• Provides leadership and guidance to ensure that supply chain activities are cost effective, create value, and meet customer expectations.
• Develops bid calendar, which will provide a pipeline of projects for future savings opportunities. Calendar will provide a project roadmap for successfully hitting savings targets.
• Delivers cost savings and value maximization to the total cost of ownership of equipment, supplies and services while fulfilling the mission of the system.
• Leads negotiations with suppliers to reach a contract at the best total value.
• Manages new technology and product requests, backorders, recalls, and substitute products.
• Structures and plans effective trials and conversions for products, supplies and services.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory/Management Responsibilities

• Job has direct and/or indirect supervision of team members that may include final budget authority, hire/termination authority, performance appraisal responsibility and disciplinary authority. Job will be considered a member of management staff at Prisma Health or affiliate and will have direct reports.

Minimum Education

• Education - Bachelor's degree. Technical or Business-related field of study preferred.
• Experience - Five (5) years of related work experience

In Lieu Of

• In lieu of the education and work experience noted above, an equivalent combination of work/academic experience may be considered (i.e., nine years related work experience OR Associate degree and seven years related work experience OR Master's degree and three years related work experience)

Required Certifications, Registrations, Licenses

• NA

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Working knowledge of Supply Chain functional area.
• Ability to work with hospital administrative departments, clinicians and hospital executives to facilitate adoption and standardization of services and products that create efficiencies and cost reduction efforts throughout the organization.
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and foster vendor partnerships.
• Communication skills.
• Facilitation skills. Ability to rapidly summarize information and present it to others.
• Attention to detail.
• Problem solving / analytical skills.
• Planning and project management skills. Ability to use metrics to drive decisions.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and Supply Chain analytics.