RN - Category Manager - Clinical Category Management/ Procurement

University of Mississippi Medical Center; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Mississippi Medical Center seeks an RN - Category Manager to lead clinical category management and procurement. You will collaborate with clinicians and value analysis teams to drive standardization, reduce costs, and improve patient outcomes through strategic sourcing decisions.

You will guide contracting, spend analytics, and supplier partnerships, ensuring initiatives align with financial targets and clinical needs while maintaining strong physician relations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing with five years of clinical, healthcare management, or clinical education experience.
• Valid RN license.
• Leadership, organizational, negotiation, and analytical skills; knowledge of medical supplies and physician relations; proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Provide supply chain leadership and act as a liaison between clinicians and the supply chain dept.
• Assist departments in managing commodity and contract service expenses.
• Identify expense variances and help develop strategic sourcing to reduce cost and improve outcomes.
• Assist in development, financial analysis, and processing of department contracts for commodities and services.
• Lead value analysis teams and support data collection, market research, and spend analytics.
• Collaborate with GPO and suppliers to develop strategic opportunities to meet targets.
• Support contracting, RFPs, competitive bids, and ensure initiatives are implemented and monitored.
• Communicate with physicians, senior leaders, and stakeholders to align sourcing initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Organizational skills

Facilitation

Communication

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Physician relations

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Job Requisition ID R00053084

Job Category Nursing

Organization SC-Clinical Category Management/Procurement

Location/s Central Billing Office-Clinton

Job Title RN - Category Manager - Clinical Category Management/ Procurement

Job Summary Responsible for actively leading and supporting the UMMC department stakeholders, business managers, and value analysis teams in identifying and executing clinical strategic sourcing decisions designed to reduce operational expense, increase revenue, and improve patient outcomes. Contributes to quality, clinical and financial initiatives by actively seeking and facilitating opportunities for standardization, decreased operational expense and increased revenue with contracting, purchasing, and value analysis.

Education & Experience Bachelor's degree in Nursing with five (5) years clinical, healthcare management, or clinical education experience.

Certifications, Licenses or Registration required: valid RN license

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Leadership, organizational, facilitative, communication, negotiation, and analytical skills. A strong knowledge of medical supplies and processes with expertise in physician relations. Must have ability to lead strategies to address physician product preferences and utilization variation. Knowledge of Microsoft office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing supply chain leadership and support and serves as a supply chain liaison between clinicians and the supply chain department.
• Actively assists departments in the management of commodity and contract services expenses.
• Identifies and communicates expense variances and assists in the development of strategic sourcing initiatives to reduce cost, increase revenue, and improve patient outcomes.
• Assists UMMC departments in the development, financial analysis, and processing of department contracts for commodities and contract services
• Provides active leadership and support to specific value analysis teams.
• Facilitates utilization of data collection, market research, and spend analytics as best practice for UMMC strategic sourcing process.
• Works with GPO and suppliers to develop strategic opportunities and partnerships to support established financial targets.
• Works with the value analysis teams and the contracts department in the negotiation of contracts, development of RFP, and support of competitive bids.
• Works with the purchasing department to assure that all strategic initiatives are implemented and monitored to assure the expected value is realized.
• Provides effective communication to physician chairs, senior leadership, strategic sourcing support members, value analysis teams, end-users, and other stakeholders to establish collaborative communication related to strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Serves as a professional and knowledgeable representative of the organization to outside suppliers and partners.
• Actively engages in professional development opportunities to remain current and knowledgeable with healthcare business trends and best practices related to healthcare supplies and services.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands Requires occasional travelling to offsite locations, frequent activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, and frequent walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Time Type Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt Yes

Pay Class Salary

FTE % 100

Work Shift

Benefits Eligibility:

Grant Funded

Job Posting Date 08/12/2026

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified)