Advisor Category Management

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Job Description Summary:

This position supports the IT sourcing function and has a significant level of spend responsibility, oversees and manages approximately $70M - $100M million per year of services with categories of medium-to-high complexity and risk, and will provide strategic decision support and recommendations to non-clinical stakeholders to maximize and ensure the value of contracts and supplier performance. The Category Manager is responsible for owning and optimizing the assigned spend categories via extensive cross-functional collaboration and mastery of all total cost of ownership (TCO)/strategic sourcing best practices including the responsibilities outlined under the "MAJOR DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS" section.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree (Required)

JOB SUMMARY

This position supports the IT sourcing function and has a significant level of spend responsibility, oversees and manages approximately $70M - $100M million per year of services with categories of medium-to-high complexity and risk, and will provide strategic decision support and recommendations to non-clinical stakeholders to maximize and ensure the value of contracts and supplier performance. The Category Manager is responsible for owning and optimizing the assigned spend categories via extensive cross-functional collaboration and mastery of all total cost of ownership (TCO)/strategic sourcing best practices including the responsibilities outlined under the "MAJOR DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS" section.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree

Field of Study: Business Administration

Field of Study: Finance

Field of Study: Operations Research

Field of Study: Supply Chain Management

Field of Study: Economics or related

Years of experience: 7 to 10

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE

Degree in related field such as business administration, finance, operations research, supply chain management, economics or related discipline; with Bachelor's Degree, a minimum of 7-10 years related experience required of progressive RF(x), sourcing, negotiating and/or contracting experience, including extensive experience developing and executing strategic plans; with Master's Degree, a minimum of 7 years' experience related experience acceptable. Possess excellent communication and relationship building skills at multiple levels of the organization.

Ability to prepare and present presentations and financial analysis to leaders.

Ability to facilitate teams to successful resolution of challenging issues. Strong influencing skills to lead to best practices, standardization and support of culture.

Mentors and coaches direct and/or indirect reports to aid associate and team development and ensure departmental and organizational objectives are met.

Must be a skilled negotiator with a proven ability to move negotiations forward to a best and final offer in the designated time frame for the project; must be skilled at presenting in a live environment and achieving agreement with others, with a demonstrated ability to maintain grace under pressure in difficult negotiations. Ability to manage relationships and possess understanding of service level agreements and KPIs.

Demonstrated success at building and maintaining efficient and effective relationships. Must possess a solid understanding of Strategic Sourcing and Value Analysis fundamentals, competitive bidding, negotiations, supplier and contract management, business case development, leading and facilitating teams, change management skills, financial analysis, building positive relationships, redlining agreements and ability to read, analyze and negotiate high-level contracts. Moderate to advanced proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, data analysis, business case development, ERP systems. Degree in related field such as business administration, finance, operations research, materials management, economics ore related discipline; With Bachelor's Degree, a minimum of 7-10 years related experience required of progressive, sourcing and contracting experience, including extensive experience developing and executing strategic souring plans; with Master's Degree, a minimum of 7 years' experience related experience acceptable.

DESIRED ATTRIBUTES

Master's Degree Supply Chain related certification Experience with Indirect Spend/Purchased Service categories for Indirect categories BSN for clinical categories

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's Degree in related field such as business administration, finance, operations research, supply chain management, economics or related discipline; with Bachelor's Degree, a minimum of 7-10 years related experience required of progressive RF(x), sourcing, negotiating and/or contracting experience, including extensive experience developing and executing strategic plans; with Master's Degree, a minimum of 7 years' experience related experience acceptable.

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE

Possess excellent communication and relationship building skills at multiple levels of the organization.

Ability to prepare and present presentations and financial analysis to leaders.

Ability to facilitate teams to successful resolution of challenging issues. Strong influencing skills to lead to best practices, standardization and support of culture.

Mentors and coaches direct and/or indirect reports to aid associate and team development and ensure departmental and organizational objectives are met.

Must be a skilled negotiator with a proven ability to move negotiations forward to a best and final offer in the designated time frame for the project; must be skilled at presenting in a live environment and achieving agreement with others, with a demonstrated ability to maintain grace under pressure in difficult negotiations. Ability to manage relationships and possess understanding of service level agreements and KPIs.

Demonstrated success at building and maintaining efficient and effective relationships.Must possess a solid understanding of Strategic Sourcing and Value Analysis fundamentals, competitive bidding, negotiations, supplier and contract management, business case development, leading and facilitating teams, change management skills, financial analysis, building positive relationships, redlining agreements and ability to read, analyze and negotiate high-level contracts.Moderate to advanced proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, data analysis, business case development, ERP systems.

KIND AND LENGTH OF EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's Degree in related field such as business administration, finance, operations research, materials management, economics ore related discipline; With Bachelor's Degree, a minimum of 7-10 years related experience required of progressive, sourcing and contracting experience, including extensive experience developing and executing strategic sourcing plans; with Master's Degree, a minimum of 7 years' experience related experience acceptable.

Work Shift:

Day

Scheduled Weekly Hours :

40

Department

Clinical Category Management

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Equal Employment Opportunity

OhioHealth is an equal opportunity employer and fully supports and maintains compliance with all state, federal, and local regulations. OhioHealth does not discriminate against associates or applicants because of race, color, genetic information, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, ancestry, national origin, veteran status, military status, pregnancy, disability, marital status, familial status, or other characteristics protected by law. Equal employment is extended to all person in all aspects of the associate-employer relationship including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, discipline, reduction in staff, termination, assignment of benefits, and any other term or condition of employment