Category Manager

City of Hope

45d•$84,900 - $131,600

About The Position

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. The Category Manager is responsible for developing and driving category specific strategies with a focus on "best value" and Total Cost of Ownership. This position is responsible for driving strategic sourcing best practices, including RFx activities, establishing/maintaining supplier partnerships, and identifying supply risks and opportunities. Must be solution-focused, analytical, and have a strong bias for decision making rooted in data and analytics. Being comfortable with presenting data to stakeholders to promote the sourcing strategy is vital. The Category Manager will be part of a Strategic Sourcing team at a very well established, world-class cancer research and treatment organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in General Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field.
3 or more years of work experience, specifically in the areas of Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, consulting or comparable functional experience
In-depth knowledge of procurement and supply chain related processes and systems.
Experience with creating manual RFx’s and managing the end-to-end process.
Intermediate and above skills in Microsoft Excel

Responsibilities

Facilitate best in class Category Management fundamentals to optimize price, quality, delivery, service level, and overall value.
Develop and maintain industry knowledge of assigned category and performs related sourcing functions
Lead RFx, negotiations, supplier sourcing, contract negotiations, and compliance / legal management for defined categories.
Provide category and spend informatics support and analysis of business operations and financial data to identify supply risks and sourcing opportunities with regard to total cost of ownership.
Coordinate regularly with Purchasing Operations (Buyers) and Materials Management (Inventory/Receiving) to determine root cause of supply shortages and develop mitigation strategies.
Foster Supplier Collaboration and accountability