Senior Category Manager Clinical
Job Summary
- Progress with purpose at one of Australias largest health care providers
- Get ahead with salary packaging benefits and professional development in a supportive team environment
- Permanent full-time opportunity
- Hybrid/Flexible working arrangements available
- Flexible location across NSW VICSA ACT and TAS
As the Senior Category Manager Clinical you will lead the strategy prioritisation and delivery of Calvarys clinical procurement portfolio. Reporting to the Director Sourcing you will set portfolio priorities allocate work and provide formal people leadership across the clinical sourcing team.
You will own the consolidated clinical sourcing pipeline review and endorse category strategies and sourcing recommendations and lead Calvarys most complex enterprise-wide and commercially significant clinical procurement initiatives.
Working closely with executive and senior clinical stakeholders you will drive strong commercial operational and strategic outcomes across the portfolio. You will be accountable for the teams aggregate savings and benefits compliance supplier performance and risk outcomes while ensuring procurement activity delivers sustainable value for Calvary.
Lead the clinical category portfolio setting strategic direction across spend analysis market assessment category strategy sourcing product standardisation and supplier management.
Lead complex enterprise-wide clinical sourcing and negotiations including major RFTs strategic panels sole-source arrangements and commercially material contracts.
Set portfolio priorities and provide governance allocating work across Category Managers and reviewing and endorsing category strategies sourcing plans evaluation recommendations and contract awards.
Partner with senior stakeholders engaging executives clinical operational and finance leaders to align on sourcing priorities standardisation commercial decisions and risk.
Drive portfolio performance and value monitoring savings and benefits pipeline delivery contract compliance supplier performance supply continuity and material risks.
Ensure clinical procurement compliance and resilience including TGA/ARTG requirements safety and quality standards market intelligence and effective resolution of escalated supplier and commercial issues.
Essential
- Minimum 8 years procurement experience including substantial senior-level category management experience across clinical categories or similarly complex and regulated portfolios.
- Demonstrated success leading complex enterprise-wide and commercially material sourcing processes and contract negotiations with significant clinical commercial or supply outcomes.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience in spend analysis supply market assessment Total Cost of Ownership evaluation and benefits realisation.
- Demonstrated accountability for portfolio prioritisation a consolidated sourcing pipeline and aggregate savings benefits compliance and risk outcomes.
- Proven ability to engage influence and align executive senior clinical operational and finance stakeholders.
- Demonstrated formal people-management experience including objective setting performance management work allocation capability development and quality assurance.
- Demonstrated experience reviewing and endorsing category strategies and sourcing recommendations and quality-assuring the work of category management professionals.
- High standard of written communication including category strategies sourcing plans board-quality recommendation papers and contract briefs.
Desirable
- Tertiary qualification in procurement supply chain commerce law or a related discipline.
- MCIPS or equivalent professional procurement qualification.
- Experience in healthcare aged care not-for-profit or complex multi-site service environments.
- NFP salary packaging benefits discounted health insurance and gym memberships
- Paid parental leave
- Training development pathways and career opportunities
- Flexible hours that make sense for you
- As part of the application process you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include but is not limited to reference checks work rights criminal history check NDIS/WWCC/WWVP checks and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role
- You will be required to provide evidence of immunisation as required for your role
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About Company
More than 130 years of high-quality, compassionate care. Providing hospital care, home and virtual care services, retirement living and residential aged care homes across five states and two territories.