Head of Category Clinical

Adventist Healthcare; Sydney; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging (NFP)

Parental leave (up to 14 weeks)

Discounted gym membership

Additional benefits

Job summary

Adventist HealthCare Limited (AHCL) is seeking a seasoned procurement leader to drive strategic procurement and category management for Sydney Adventist Hospital’s clinical portfolio. You will partner with clinical leaders, run complex tenders, and push for standardisation, supplier performance, and cost improvements to ensure value and resilience.

The role requires leadership, governance awareness, and a focus on patient safety in a regulated healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Strong strategic sourcing and category management experience.
• Proven ability in commercial negotiations.
• Healthcare or regulated industry experience.
• Understanding of clinical governance and patient safety in procurement.
• Experience managing clinical product supplier quality risks.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic procurement and category management across Sydney Adventist Hospital’s clinical portfolio.
• Partner with clinical leaders; lead sourcing initiatives, tenders and negotiations.
• Drive product standardisation, supplier performance, cost improvement and supply resilience.
• Lead clinical product evaluation and governance; balance patient safety, efficacy, and value in sourcing decisions.
• Lead and develop the procurement team; drive continuous improvement and act as advisor to senior leaders.

Skills

Senior procurement

Category management

Supply chain

Negotiation

Healthcare industry

Governance

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Qualifications in SC

Education

Tertiary qualifications in Supply Chain/Business/Commerce

Clinical qualifications (advantage)

Job description

• Lead procurement across critical clinical categories at NSW’s largest private hospital
• Drive value, innovation and supply resilience
• Be part of our value-based, caring organisation, and enjoy NFP salary packaging benefits

Taking care of people is our reason for being

At Adventist Healthcare caring for people is at the core of who we are. It’s what drives us to deliver exceptional outcomes for our patients and it’s a shared sense of purpose that extends to everyone who works here.

When you join our team, you’ll feel valued and supported by our strong commitment to learning, flexibility, great benefits and a positive culture of teamwork and cooperation.

Some of the exceptional benefits we offer include

• As a not-for-profit, we offer salary packaging that can reduce the amount of tax you pay, which can leave you with thousands of dollars more in your pocket
• Up to 14 weeks paid parental leave
• Discounted gym membership for you and your family using Fitness Passport
• We have many other benefits as well, find out more when you meet us!

What you will be doing in this role

Reporting to the Director, Procurement & Supply Chain, this is a full-time, permanent position where you will lead the strategic procurement and category management agenda across Sydney Adventist Hospital’s clinical portfolio, covering medical and surgical consumables, pharmaceuticals, prostheses and implants, theatre products, clinical equipment, devices and purchased services.

Partnering closely with clinical leaders, you will lead complex sourcing initiatives, tenders and commercial negotiations, while driving product standardisation, supplier performance, cost improvement and supply resilience. You'll play a key role in clinical product evaluation and governance, ensuring sourcing decisions balance patient safety, clinical efficacy, operational requirements and value.

Beyond traditional procurement, you'll provide leadership across product recalls, safety notices, supplier quality concerns and clinical product risks, working closely with Clinical Governance, Infection Prevention & Control, Pharmacy, Biomedical Engineering and other key stakeholders. You'll also lead and develop your team, drive continuous improvement and act as a trusted procurement advisor to senior leaders.

Who we’re looking for

You are a strategic and experienced procurement or supply chain leader who understands the unique complexities of clinical products and healthcare environments. You combine strong commercial expertise with an understanding of clinical governance, patient safety and product risk.

You're confident leading complex sourcing and commercial negotiations, influencing senior clinicians and executives, and making evidence-based decisions where quality, safety, value and continuity of supply all matter.

To be successful, you will bring:

• Strong experience in senior procurement, category management or supply chain roles
• Strong strategic sourcing, category management and commercial negotiation expertise
• Healthcare or other complex, regulated industry experience
• Understanding of clinical governance, patient safety and healthcare supply chain requirements
• Experience managing clinical product, supplier quality or product-related risks
• Strong stakeholder influencing and relationship management skills
• Demonstrated leadership, change management and team development capability
• Tertiary qualifications in Supply Chain, Business, Commerce or a related discipline
• Clinical qualifications and/or significant clinical product management experience highly regarded

About Us

Adventist HealthCare Limited (AHCL) operates several businesses including Sydney Adventist Hospital (fondly known as the San), San Day Surgery Hornsby, San Radiology & Nuclear Medicine and Sydney Adventist Hospital Pharmacy. The San is NSW’s largest private hospital which was founded in 1903. We are proudly faith-based and have a proven history of being industry pioneers in ground-breaking research and delivering superior patient care. As a not-for-profit, we continually reinvest in cutting-edge technology and facilities, providing exceptional outcomes for our dedicated team of 2500+ employees, 1400 Accredited Medical Officers, 300 volunteers and the community we serve.

What to expect

Successful candidates will be required to complete a range of pre-employment checks and assessments. These vary and could include professional references, functional questionnaire, a national police check, working with children check, vaccination evidence, among others.

Applications close Wednesday 14 October.

Note applications will be reviewed as they are received and progressed to interview and appointed if deemed suitable. Therefore, we encourage you to apply now to avoid disappointment.

If you would like to know more, then please feel free to contact our Talent Acquisition Partner, Olivia Jacobs on *******@sah.org.au. Please note that no applications via email will be accepted.