Healthcare Category Management Director

Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Healthcare Category Management Director to lead the development of enterprise-wide category strategies that enhance financial performance and supplier partnerships. This role includes responsibilities like crafting strategic plans, identifying market opportunities, and expanding clinical services. The ideal candidate should have 10+ years of experience in business development and healthcare planning, with fluency in Arabic and English.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience with 5 years in relevant fields.
• Strong leadership skills to manage category management department.

Responsibilities

• Develop multi-year strategic category plans aligning with growth.
• Conduct market intelligence on healthcare technologies and suppliers.
• Lead category management department workflows and team delegation.

Skills

Business development

Strategic planning

Performance management

Healthcare planning

Fluency in Arabic

Fluency in English

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a Business related subject

MBA or MA preferred

Job description

About Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group:

With a vision to be the most trusted healthcare provider in medical excellence and patient experience globally, Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group (HMG) has become the largest provider of comprehensive medical services in the Middle East. It is currently operating 22 medical facilities across KSA and UAE.

Our mission is to develop and operate state of the art medical facilities and provide innovative healthcare services to create value for people starting from the early stages of planning and designing until final implementation, operation, obtaining the required accreditations.

Job Summary:

The Healthcare Category Management Director will be responsible for developing and executing enterprise-wide category strategies across Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group (HMG) that improve financial performance, strengthen strategic supplier partnerships, and enable growth agenda. This includes supporting clinical service line expansion, market positioning, and long-term strategic initiatives to ensure optimized cost, quality, innovation, supply resilience and patient outcomes across all key product and service categories.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Develop multi-year strategic category plans aligned to organizational growth, service line strategy and market positioning
• Identify partnership, Joint Venture, innovation and revenue-enhancing opportunities within supplier and category portfolios
• Conduct market intelligence on emerging healthcare technologies, suppliers and delivery models
• Structure partnership models including risk-sharing, co-development and innovation pilots
• Identify strategic supplier alliances that enable growth, innovation and differentiation
• Lead the category management department by ensuring an appropriate workflow management between the team through appropriate delegation of work

Education/Professional Qualification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Business related subject with MBA or MA preferred
• At least 10 years of experience of which five 5 years are in business development, strategic planning, performance management or healthcare planning
• Fluency in Arabic and English language