What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Category Manager - Hybrid position at Sonora Quest Laboratories/ Laboratory Sciences of Arizona?
Primary City/State
Tempe, Arizona
Department Name
Purchasing-Ref Lab
Work Shift
Day
Job Category
Supply Chain
Position Summary
This position leads Strategy Development & Deployment, Supplier Relationship Management, Savings Initiatives, Supplier Contract Management and Supplier Performance Management across Categories of Materials, Equipment and Services, maximizing value to the company while minimizing cost from vendors and suppliers. Provides high quality procurement services to meet the needs of internal customers. The incumbent is accountable for developing efficiencies and for finding new opportunities to reduce supply cost through effective vendor negotiations. Promotes sound and ethical contracting and purchasing practices between the company and the vendor community and develops and maintainins positive vendor relationships based on mutual respect and trust.
Core Functions
Position manages less than $100M in annual spend and no more than 500 suppliers. Position has departmental responsibility, works under limited supervision using independent judgment to achieve goals. Internal customers are other staff, visitors, supervisors, managers and executives. External customers are patients, visitors, vendors, other company facilities, and non-company medical facilities. Has freedom to determine how best to accomplish functions within established business procedures.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
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Tempe, Arizona
Department Name
Purchasing-Ref Lab
Work Shift
Day
Job Category
Supply Chain
Position Summary
This position leads Strategy Development & Deployment, Supplier Relationship Management, Savings Initiatives, Supplier Contract Management and Supplier Performance Management across Categories of Materials, Equipment and Services, maximizing value to the company while minimizing cost from vendors and suppliers. Provides high quality procurement services to meet the needs of internal customers. The incumbent is accountable for developing efficiencies and for finding new opportunities to reduce supply cost through effective vendor negotiations. Promotes sound and ethical contracting and purchasing practices between the company and the vendor community and develops and maintainins positive vendor relationships based on mutual respect and trust.
Core Functions
- In the area of Strategy Development & Deployment: Develops new sourcing strategies to drive competition, identifies new grow suppliers, creates simplicity through supplier rationalization, develops emerging market strategies, develops full lifecycle sourcing strategies, links to Operations, supports Platform Transitions (Identifies, negotiates, tracks and implements initial phases, supports other phases), sustains business continuity plans (to overcome disasters), performs project management of strategic initiatives and maintains Grow/Maintain/Phase-Out Supplier designations.
- In the area of Supplier Relationship Management: Leads supplier business reviews, acts as escalation point for late/incorrect payments and logistics issues, from within organization. Develops Grow opportunities (or Maintains/Phase out relationships) and proliferates organizational initiatives/systems.
- In the area of Savings Initiatives: Negotiates contracts, supplier claims and supplier contributions, adds targeted parts to contracts, identifies dual source opportunities and executes. Ensures lowest possible contract pricing is used by Buying Team (SQL/LSA/Quest/Banner), understands material market movements and effects on parts and acts as P&L Leader for Categories Owned.
- In the area of Supplier Contract Management: Negotiates with suppliers to support save, contract penetration and other deliverables for initial contracts, additions and supporting through the lives of contracts, negotiates PIA/NDA and lead Stakeholder Reviews and Approval for supplier contracts, monitors, assesses and re-bids or re-negotiates, regularly evaluates and revises as appropriate company participation in programs such as medical supply agreements, service agreements, capital equipment agreements and pooled purchase agreements, monitors vendor and company/facility contract compliance and performance.
Position manages less than $100M in annual spend and no more than 500 suppliers. Position has departmental responsibility, works under limited supervision using independent judgment to achieve goals. Internal customers are other staff, visitors, supervisors, managers and executives. External customers are patients, visitors, vendors, other company facilities, and non-company medical facilities. Has freedom to determine how best to accomplish functions within established business procedures.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- Effective organizational skills. Effective communications skills.
- Effective human relation skills.
- Excellent skills in the areas of planning, directing, communications, solving complex problems, critical thinking, negotiations and statistical analysis.
- Ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and effectively to meet multiple priorities.
- Ability to travel to any company facility and/or vendor facility for meetings and product or service assessment. Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and five (5) years’ of directly applicable experience.
- Must possess a valid driver’s license and be eligible for coverage under the company auto insurance policy.
- MBA/Master’s Degree. Six Sigma or Lean Certified.
- Project Management Certified.
EEO/Female/Minority/Disability/Veterans
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