Senior Category Manager - Clinical

Calvary Health Care; Adelaide; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NFP salary packaging benefits,discount

Paid parental leave

Training, development pathways and动力

Flexible hours that make sense for you

Job summary

Calvary Health Care in Australia seeks a Senior Category Manager – Clinical to lead strategy, prioritisation and delivery of the clinical procurement portfolio. Reporting to the Director Sourcing, you will set portfolio priorities, allocate work and provide formal people leadership across the clinical sourcing team.

You will own the consolidated pipeline, endorse category strategies and run enterprise-wide sourcing initiatives, working with executive stakeholders to drive savings, compliance and

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years' procurement experience across clinical or complex, regulated portfolios.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide sourcing processes and significant contract negotiations.
• Strong commercial acumen with spend analysis, market assessment and TCO evaluation.
• Proven accountability for portfolio prioritisation, pipeline and aggregated savings.

Responsibilities

• Lead the clinical category portfolio and set strategic direction for spend analysis, market assessment and supplier management.
• Oversee complex, enterprise-wide clinical sourcing and major negotiations including RFTs and sole-source contracts.
• Set portfolio priorities and endorse category strategies, sourcing plans and contract awards.
• Partner with executives to align on sourcing priorities, standardisation and risk.
• Drive performance, monitor savings, compliance and supplier performance.
• Ensure clinical procurement compliance and resilience including regulatory requirements.

Skills

Procurement experience

Category management

Sourcing negotiations

Spend analysis

Stakeholder engagement

People management

Contract management

Written communication

Risk management

Healthcare procurement

Education

Tertiary qualification in procurement, supply chain, commerce, law or related discipline

MCIPS or equivalent professional procurement qualification

Job description

• Progress with purpose at one of Australia’s largest health care providers
• Get ahead with salary packaging, benefits and professional development in a supportive team environment
• Permanent full-time opportunity
• Hybrid/Flexible working arrangements available
• Flexible location across NSW, VIC,SA, ACT and TAS

• Canberra, ACT, Australia, 2601
• Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Adelaide, SA, Australia
• Launceston, TAS, Australia, 7250
• Melbourne, VIC, Australia

• Permanent
• Closing on: Sep 25 2026

Position Description

• Progress with purpose at one of Australia’s largest health care providers
• Get ahead with salary packaging, benefits and professional development in a supportive team environment
• Permanent full-time opportunity
• Hybrid/Flexible working arrangements available
• Flexible location across NSW, VIC,SA, ACT and TAS

About The Role

As the Senior Category Manager – Clinical, you will lead the strategy, prioritisation and delivery of Calvary’s clinical procurement portfolio.

Reporting to the Director Sourcing, you will set portfolio priorities, allocate work and provide formal people leadership across the clinical sourcing team.

You will own the consolidated clinical sourcing pipeline, review and endorse category strategies and sourcing recommendations, and lead Calvary’s most complex, enterprise-wide and commercially significant clinical procurement initiatives.

Working closely with executive and senior clinical stakeholders, you will drive strong commercial, operational and strategic outcomes across the portfolio. You will be accountable for the team’s aggregate savings and benefits, compliance, supplier performance and risk outcomes, while ensuring procurement activity delivers sustainable value for Calvary.

Your main duties will include:

• Lead the clinical category portfolio, setting strategic direction across spend analysis, market assessment, category strategy, sourcing, product standardisation and supplier management.
• Lead complex, enterprise-wide clinical sourcing and negotiations, including major RFTs, strategic panels, sole-source arrangements and commercially material contracts.
• Set portfolio priorities and provide governance, allocating work across Category Managers and reviewing and endorsing category strategies, sourcing plans, evaluation recommendations and contract awards.
• Partner with senior stakeholders, engaging executives, clinical, operational and finance leaders to align on sourcing priorities, standardisation, commercial decisions and risk.
• Drive portfolio performance and value, monitoring savings and benefits, pipeline delivery, contract compliance, supplier performance, supply continuity and material risks.
• Ensure clinical procurement compliance and resilience, including TGA/ARTG requirements, safety and quality standards, market intelligence, and effective resolution of escalated supplier and commercial issues.

About you

• Minimum 8 years' procurement experience, including substantial senior-level category management experience across clinical categories or similarly complex and regulated portfolios.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, enterprise-wide and commercially material sourcing processes and contract negotiations with significant clinical, commercial or supply outcomes.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in spend analysis, supply market assessment, Total Cost of Ownership evaluation and benefits realisation.
• Demonstrated accountability for portfolio prioritisation, a consolidated sourcing pipeline and aggregate savings, benefits, compliance and risk outcomes.
• Proven ability to engage, influence and align executive, senior clinical, operational and finance stakeholders.
• Demonstrated formal people-management experience, including objective setting, performance management, work allocation, capability development and quality assurance.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and endorsing category strategies and sourcing recommendations and quality-assuring the work of category management professionals.
• High standard of written communication including category strategies, sourcing plans, board-quality recommendation papers and contract briefs.

Desirable

• Tertiary qualification in procurement, supply chain, commerce, law or a related discipline.
• MCIPS or equivalent professional procurement qualification.
• Experience in healthcare, aged care, not-for-profit or complex multi-site service environments.

For further information please contact National Recruitment on [e-mail]

As we serve the community across Home, Virtual and Residential Aged Care, Retirement Living and Hospitals, one thing sets us apart. Care from the heart.

Why work for Calvary?

At Calvary, our staff matter.

With over 130 years’ experience and 18,000 staff and volunteers, we offer an inclusive and welcoming culture where you are valued, drawing on your own strengths, identity and background alongside a team of professionals who care for our patients, residents and clients.

Your benefits:

• NFP salary packaging benefits, discounted health insurance and gym memberships
• Paid parental leave
• Training, development pathways and career opportunities
• Flexible hours that make sense for you

Please note the following:

• As part of the application process, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include, but is not limited to reference checks, work rights, criminal history check, NDIS/WWCC/WWVP checks, and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role
• You will be required to provide evidence of immunisation as required for your role

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