Category Manager (Remote - United States)

SOLVENTUM•Remote - Texas, TX

2d•$125,600 - $172,700•Remote

About The Position

Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges. As a Category Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. You will manage the commercial, strategic, and tactical operational relationships with contract manufacturing suppliers to ensure product availability through developing and maintaining a competitive supply base for Solventum. You will also manage and partner with suppliers to develop business relationships that deliver effective operational control to agreed performance levels across service, cost, quality, and working capital through contractual agreements, periodic business reviews, and scorecards. This role involves identifying, leading, and implementing solutions to complex and multifaceted situations, including contract negotiations, category strategies, supplier management, internal and external sourcing decisions, and dual-sourcing strategies. You will engage key affiliates across Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Business Teams, Regulatory, and other functions to ensure timely issue resolution and successful completion of strategic business initiatives. Developing continuous supply chain improvement practices to enhance value and performance through lead time reductions, increased supply chain agility, capacity optimization, cost reduction initiatives, and risk assessment and mitigation activities is also a key part of this role. Additionally, you will lead and support, as needed, the RFP/RFQ process, contract negotiations, benchmarking activities, make-versus-buy evaluations, should-cost analyses, total cost analyses, supply chain mapping efforts, and New Product Introduction initiatives. You will manage one or more procurement processes as a Subject Matter Expert within the Purchased Finished Goods team, including make-versus-buy evaluations, sub-tier supplier management and consolidation efforts, and programmatic savings stage-gate transitions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start)
Seven (7) years of experience in a third-party supply chain and/or category management environment, including experience managing and developing supplier relationships and negotiating contracts
Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Nice To Haves

Experience resolving complex supply chain issues involving multiple stakeholders through negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making activities
Experience communicating and collaborating with stakeholders at multiple levels of an organization
Experience applying knowledge of Supply Chain Finance, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), product validation requirements, or regulatory expectations
Experience successfully collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on complex projects.
Project management experience managing timelines, resources and risk (across various functional area stakeholders e.g. influencing without authority) to ensure projects deliver desired expectations with respect to completion and cost targets.

Responsibilities

Managing the commercial, strategic, and tactical operational relationships with contract manufacturing suppliers to ensure product availability through developing and maintaining a competitive supply base for Solventum.
Managing and partnering with suppliers to develop business relationships that deliver effective operational control to agreed performance levels across service, cost, quality, and working capital through contractual agreements, periodic business reviews, and scorecards.
Identifying, leading, and implementing solutions to complex and multifaceted situations, including contract negotiations, category strategies, supplier management, internal and external sourcing decisions, and dual-sourcing strategies.
Engaging key affiliates across Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Business Teams, Regulatory, and other functions to ensure timely issue resolution and successful completion of strategic business initiatives.
Developing continuous supply chain improvement practices to enhance value and performance through lead time reductions, increased supply chain agility, capacity optimization, cost reduction initiatives, and risk assessment and mitigation activities.
Leading and supporting, as needed, the RFP/RFQ process, contract negotiations, benchmarking activities, make-versus-buy evaluations, should-cost analyses, total cost analyses, supply chain mapping efforts, and New Product Introduction initiatives.
Managing one or more procurement processes as a Subject Matter Expert within the Purchased Finished Goods team, including make-versus-buy evaluations, sub-tier supplier management and consolidation efforts, and programmatic savings stage-gate transitions.
Corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.