Senior Category Manager - Non Clinical

Calvary Health Care; Melbourne; Sur place; AUD 140 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

NFP salary packaging

Paid parental leave

Training and development

Flexible hours

Résumé du poste

Calvary Health Care in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Category Manager - Non-Clinical to lead indirect and non-clinical procurement, drive portfolio strategy and manage a dedicated team delivering enterprise-wide savings.

Reporting to the Director Sourcing, you will engage executive, operational and finance stakeholders, ensuring compliance, and delivering competitive outcomes while promoting safety, development and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years' procurement experience across indirect and non-clinical categories.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-wide sourcing processes and contract negotiations with significant commercial impact.
• Strong commercial acumen with spend analysis, market assessment and total cost of ownership evaluation.

Responsabilités

• Safeguarding & compliance: Champion compliance with safeguarding standards and Calvary policies.
• Portfolio leadership: Own indirect and non-clinical category portfolio and provide strategic direction.
• Strategic sourcing & negotiations: Lead complex sourcing activities, RFTs, panels and contract negotiations.
• Governance & team prioritisation: Endorse strategies, plans and resource allocation across the team.
• Stakeholder & supplier management: Align executives and operations on strategy and risks.
• Performance & commercial insight: Monitor savings, benefits, compliance and supplier performance.

Connaissances

Procurement leadership

Strategic sourcing

Contract negotiations

Stakeholder management

Spend analysis

Change management

Formation

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

MCIPS or equivalent

Description du poste

• 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

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.

• 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.

Essential

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

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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