Category Manager - Supply Chain Management

Mayo Clinic; Rochester (MN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mayo Clinic is seeking a contract management professional to lead and negotiate medium complexity contracts, ensuring alignment with legal and category knowledge. The role involves ongoing collaboration with operations managers and project leaders to understand sourcing needs, and oversight of contracting activities and personnel.

The position emphasizes lifecycle management from negotiations to amendments, ensuring compliance and optimal administration.

Qualifications

• Independently negotiates medium complexity and medium risk contracts.
• Provides leadership for day-to-day management of contracting activities and personnel.
• Develops ongoing relationships with operations managers and project leaders to understand sourcing needs.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate and manage contracts across categories to protect Mayo Clinic's interests.
• Lead lifecycle management of contracts including amendments, extensions, and termination as needed.
• Perform total cost of ownership analyses and supplier performance assessments.
• Represent Mayo Clinic in contract dispute resolution with vendors.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Vendor management

Leadership

Contract law knowledge

Cost analysis

Job description

This position generates value through negotiating pricing discounts and protecting Mayo Clinic from various types of risk. Work will be assigned and monitored by team leaders based upon current business needs. This position may serve on multiple teams. This position may lead lower risk teams or projects as directed. When in a mentoring role they are expected to provide day-to-day oversight for personnel and projects. This role must maintain effective working relationship with a variety of individuals throughout the institution and will have contact with persons outside Mayo. At a minimum, this role must develop ongoing relationships with operations managers and project leaders to understand sourcing needs, opportunities, and priorities. Provides leadership for the day-to-day management of contracting activities and personnel. Independently negotiates medium complexity and medium risk contracts. Utilizes and effectively applies contract law and category knowledge. Participates in the development of short-term tactics and long- range plans to secure Mayo's business and legal interests resulting in optimal administration and management solutions. Participates in the processes concerning the negotiation, consultation on supplies, distribution agreements, awarding of agreements and supplier performance. After contracts are negotiated and executed, this role will participate and sometime lead lifecycle management activities such as determining the necessity for amendments or extensions of contracts, compliance to contractual obligations, and/or termination, and change control management. Provides management oversight of the related contract administration processes. Performs analysis such as total cost of ownership for purchase alternatives, analysis of special deals, etc. Represents Mayo in contract dispute resolution with vendors. Performs other special projects as assigned.

During the selection process, you may be asked to participate in an OnDemand (pre-recorded) interview that you can complete at your convenience. During the OnDemand interview, a question will appear on your screen, and you will have time to consider each question before responding. You will have the opportunity to re-record your answer to each question. Mayo Clinic will only see the final recording. The completed interview will be reviewed by a Mayo Clinic staff member and you will be notified of next steps.

This vacancy is not eligible for sponsorship. We will not sponsor or transfer visas for this position. Also, Mayo Clinic DOES NOT participate in the F-1 STEM OPT extension program.

This is a hybrid position and eligible candidates must be located within 100 miles of a Mayo Clinic campus for occasional on-site expectations based on business needs.