Senior Category Manager - Non Clinical

Calvary Health Care; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NFP salary packaging benefits

Paid parental leave

Training, development pathways and考re

Job summary

Calvary Health Care is seeking a Senior Category Manager - Non-Clinical to lead strategy, prioritisation and delivery across indirect and non-clinical category portfolios. You will report to the Director Sourcing, lead a team, allocate work and advance enterprise-wide procurement initiatives.

You will engage executive, operational, facilities and finance stakeholders, driving savings, compliance and supplier performance while delivering risk mitigation and strong governance across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years' procurement experience across indirect, corporate services or broad, complex portfolios.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide sourcing processes with significant commercial outcomes.
• Strong commercial acumen including spend analysis, market assessment and cost of ownership evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Safeguarding & compliance: Champion compliance with the National Catholic Safeguarding Standards and Calvary policies, fostering safety and wellbeing.
• Portfolio leadership: Own the indirect and non-clinical category portfolio, providing strategic direction across spend, market analysis, sourcing, demand management, standardisation and supplier management.
• Strategic sourcing & negotiations: Lead complex, enterprise-wide sourcing activities, RFTs, panels, sole-source arrangements and contract negotiations.
• Governance & team prioritisation: Review and endorse category strategies, sourcing plans, evaluations and contract awards, allocate resources across the team.
• Stakeholder & supplier management: Build executive alignment on strategy and commercial risks, resolve escalated supplier and commercial issues.
• Performance & commercial insight: Monitor portfolio performance, savings and compliance using market intelligence to inform decisions.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Category management

Negotiations

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Written communication

People management

Policy compliance

Education

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

MCIPS or equivalent

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

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

The Senior Category Manager - Non-Clinical is accountable for strategy, prioritisation and delivery across Calvary's overall indirect and non-clinical category portfolio.

Reporting to the Director Sourcing, the role leads a team, sets portfolio priorities, allocates work and provides formal people leadership. It owns the consolidated non-clinical sourcing pipeline, reviews and endorses category strategies and sourcing recommendations before escalation, and leads Calvary's most complex, enterprise-wide and commercially material non-clinical procurement activity.

The role engages executive, operational, facilities and finance stakeholders and is accountable for the non-clinical team's aggregate savings, benefits, compliance, supplier performance and risk outcomes.

Your main duties will include:

• Safeguarding & compliance: Champion compliance with the National Catholic Safeguarding Standards and Calvary policies, fostering a culture of safety and wellbeing.
• Portfolio leadership: Own the indirect and non-clinical category portfolio, providing strategic direction across spend, market analysis, sourcing, demand management, standardisation and supplier management.
• Strategic sourcing & negotiations: Lead complex, enterprise-wide and commercially significant sourcing activities, RFTs, panels, sole-source arrangements and contract negotiations.
• Governance & team prioritisation: Review and endorse category strategies, sourcing plans, evaluations and contract awards, while prioritising work and allocating resources across the sourcing team.
• Stakeholder & supplier management: Build executive and operational alignment on strategy and commercial risks, and resolve escalated supplier, operational and commercial issues.
• Performance & commercial insight: Monitor portfolio performance, savings, benefits, compliance, supplier performance and risks, using market intelligence to inform sourcing and negotiation decisions.

About you

• Minimum 8 years' procurement experience, including substantial senior-level category management experience across indirect, corporate services or similarly broad and complex portfolios.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, enterprise-wide and commercially material sourcing processes and contract negotiations with significant commercial, operational 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, operational, facilities, finance and other functional 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 and sourcing 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.

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

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. If this sounds like you, apply for a role with Calvary today.

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