Category Manager Strategic Sourcing - Purchased Services - Remote

Employment Type: Full time Shift: Description: Purpose Accountable for leading, guiding & directing the functional responsibilities within an area of assignment. Enable ministry-level or enterprise-wide functional strategy to address internal or external business & regulatory issues. Provide functional expertise & ensure fulfillment of performance & service standards. Responsible for consistent operating performance & achieving financial goals. Identifies, defines & solves complex problems that impact the management & direction of the business. Collaborates with Services Areas, Regions & Health Ministries to ensure consistency & integration of strategy & operations while maintaining awareness of new industry developments & standards. Provides decision support, operations & / or optimization leadership focus. Note: “patients” refers to patients, clients, residents, participants, customers, members Essential Functions Our Trinity Health Culture: Knows, understands, incorporates & demonstrates our Trinity Health Mission, Values, Vision, Actions & Promise in behaviors, practices & decisions. Leadership: Providing advice, guidance & leadership to RHM & Region leaders in developing strategies & in the achievement of performance goals. Direction & Growth: Providing advice, guidance & leadership to service area, functional area, RHM & Regions. Strategic Support & Accountability: Collaborates in system-wide strategy development & deployment of functional area priorities & initiatives. Responsible for supporting regional efforts to comply with functional area priorities. Accountable for the selection, evaluation & overall success of the functional leadership teams. Organization-wide focal point for establishing functional strategies & governance over financials & staffing. Accountable for communication between service area functional area, RHM & Region leaders. Operational Delivery: Responsible for measuring & reporting KPIs / metrics & value delivery. Providing advice, guidance & leadership for the colleague life cycle. Maintains a Working Knowledge of applicable federal, state & local laws / regulations, Trinity Health Integrity & Compliance Program & Code of Conduct, as well as other policies, procedures & guidelines in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical & professional behavior & safe work practices. Functional Role (not inclusive of titles or advancement career progression) Leads strategic sourcing activities for complex initiatives with the goal/ability of achieving significant cost reductions, supplanted with year-over-year cost and productivity improvements in the total cost of goods and services procured while maintaining or improving product quality and vendor service levels. Strategic sourcing activity includes but is not limited to, managing several simultaneous competitive sourcing processes, complex contract negotiations of high value, and limiting exposure to the System on high-risk projects. This position has responsibility for making decisions and managing risks that impact day-to-day operations. This position is accountable for maintaining business relationships with suppliers and Trinity's group purchasing organization (GPO). The business relationships with suppliers require negotiating terms supporting the business plan objectives and protecting Trinity from business continuity risk, working with legal to develop contracts to memorialize terms and conditions of the trade relationship, and monitoring supplier performance and conducting business reviews. The business relationship with the GPO will require representing Trinity's interest on advisory boards, providing guidance on the GPO negotiation strategies, and supporting contract implementation across the ministry. Drives system compliance by optimizing the use of national group purchasing, custom group purchasing, and Trinity Health system agreements. Demonstrates detailed understanding of products, service offerings, and financial impact. Conducts competitive sourcing and negotiation process on initiatives with moderate risk and value, which include but are not limited to direct and indirect supplies, services and equipment. Analyzes responses, reviews product/service/equipment/IT information to determine applicability, performs cost benefit analyses, develops reports and presents findings. Determines favorable quotes and/or negotiates with vendors to obtain optimal price, terms and conditions. Demonstrates ability to collect, clean, andvalidate large datasets from multiple sources to ensure accuracy and integrity.Analyze data toidentifytrends, patterns, and anomalies that inform business strategies.Develop andmaintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Excelor similar platforms.Performs ad-hoc analysis andprovides actionable recommendations to stakeholders. Conducts category assessments including spend analysis, demand forecasting, supply market intelligence, and risk evaluation to identify value creation opportunities. Leads enterprise spend management activities across assigned categories, ensuring alignment with organizational financial goals and budget targets. Can readily speak to the year over year spend differences and challenges within assigned portfolio. Prioritize projects for assigned commodities. Leads strategy development, manages Request for Information (RFI), Request for Proposal (RFP), and Request for Quotation (RFQ) processes. Leads analysis and negotiations. Leads cross-functional teams for strategic sourcing initiatives to drive system-wide standardization, cost reductions, service and quality excellence, knowledge transfer for replication of best practice, information technology development and assisting with local implementation of various activities. Develops, executes and communicates sourcing strategies in collaboration with senior level management, Value Analysis, Operations, TIS, and key stakeholders on overall process, timing, and objectives. Manage relationships to ensure internal customers and stakeholders are actively engaged. Promotes a lean/process excellence culture. Participates in joint quality improvement initiatives with SO and RHM colleagues. Motivates and leads strategic sourcing lean program initiatives to increase productivity and improve end-to-end process efficiencies. Engages suppliers in the selection processes and maintaining business relationships that are conducted legally, ethically and in accordance with Trinity Health Policies/Procedures and the Organizational Integrity Program. Develops a primary liaison for key suppliers within the assigned category. Conducts business reviews with key suppliers. Serves as the subject matter expert for all category supplier engagement questions from Trinity colleagues. Maintains business relationships with the GPO leadership and staff. Provides input on sourcing strategy and represents Trinity on advisory boards as assigned. Plans, manages and oversees the life cycle of complex small to medium sourcing projects. These projects involve but are not limited to multiple stakeholders, significant facilitation, standardization, and process changes to multiple business units. Using working knowledge on contract construction, reviews, red lines and drafts language for discussion. Close working relationships with legal for contract issues requiring legal input. Utilizes Supply Chain Management’s digital systems, including strategic sourcing and contract lifecycle management applications, and ensure adoption and use by team. Partners with the Finance department to ensure that forecasted savings are validated. Ensures effective handoff of executed contracts #J-18808-Ljbffr Trinity Health