Senior Category Management Specialist Purchased Services

Children's Hospital Colorado; Aurora (CO); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Education benefit

Professional development tools

Job summary

Senior Category Management Specialist for Purchased Services at Children's Hospital Colorado will lead a strategic sourcing framework for service spend, drive cost savings, improve contract compliance, and strengthen vendor partnerships. The role is full-time and hybrid (60% in office, 40% remote) with occasional travel to other campuses.

Responsibilities include leading analytics, developing RFPs/RFIs, and collaborating with internal customers to standardize processes and optimize supplier

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field is required.
• Minimum 7 years of category management, contract administration and/or purchasing experience.
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, one year of related professional experience will serve as an equivalency to one year of education

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, coach and advise other Category Management Specialists.
• Develops and implements ongoing process improvement initiatives within the department.
• Subject matter expert for management of audits for large, complex contracts.
• Consults, develops, leads and evaluates plans and conducts analysis of financial, operational, clinical or administrative projects in collaboration with management.
• Develops, validates, and propagates Policies and Procedures based on the overall strategic goals and vision of the organization.
• Builds and maximizes strategic partnerships with group purchasing organizations and local/regional hospital partners.

Skills

Category management

Contract administration

Purchasing

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration or related field

Job description

Job ID: 108398

Location: Aurora

Job Overview

As a newly established role within the organization, the Senior Category Management Specialist for Purchased Services will play a pivotal role in advancing a strategic framework for sourcing service-related spend. This position offers a unique opportunity to establish best practices, strengthen vendor partnerships, and drive measurable value through sourcing, contracting, performance management, and operational standardization. Success in this role will be demonstrated through achievement of annual cost savings and cost avoidance targets, increased contract compliance, improved supplier performance metrics, reduction in service variation, enhanced stakeholder satisfaction, and the development of sustainable category strategies that support organizational goals.

Job Status: Full-time, Salaried. Hybrid (60% in office, 40% remote- subject to change), will require travel to other campuses at times.

Shift: Days. Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, coach and advise other Category Management Specialists.
• Develops and implements ongoing process improvement initiatives within the department.
• Subject matter expert for management of audits for large, complex contracts which can fall in any of the categories but requires one to overcome challenges of understanding, administering, and enforcing.
• Consults, develops, leads and evaluates plans and conducts analysis of financial operational, clinical or administrative projects in collaboration with management.
• Develops validates, and propagates Policies and Procedures based on the overall strategic goals and vision of the organization.
• Builds and maximizes strategic partnerships with group purchasing organizations and local/regional hospital partners.
• Develops proposals and recommendations based on analysis of spend patterns, identifying opportunities to reduce or eliminate cost and/or operational variance and advances strategies to capitalizes on such opportunities.
• Identifies and secures supply sources and performs other category management activities involving the purchase, distribution, and analysis of present/future needs of materials, equipment, supplies and services.
• Leads and develops strategy used in contract negotiation and finalizes contracts that meet CHCO contract standards and cost targets.
• Accountable for developing Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and Requests for Information (RFI), issuing purchase orders.
• Analyzes and continually monitors emerging trends and marketplace developments and integrates changes into sourcing strategies.
• Provides high-level customer service and builds strategic relationships maintaining a positive working relationship with internal customers, and other stakeholders to obtain cooperation and support during negotiations and future business reviews.
• Engages internal and external stakeholders as needed to achieve optimal outcome on behalf of CHCO.
• Facilitates the evaluation, trialing, introduction and adoption of new products and services.
• Facilitates and coordinates business reviews of contractual performance of both parties to ensure compliance with terms and to identify conflicts or changes requiring resolution at contract renewal.
• Manages contract termination procedures or renewals as needed.

Scope and Level

• Guidelines: Advanced full performance professional level work that requires additional knowledge, education, training or experience. Guidelines are generally in the form of stated objectives only with issues and factors largely undefined requiring the employee to exercise creativity and ingenuity in devising criteria, techniques, strategy, and methodologies for approaching assigned functions or projects.
• Complexity: Duties performed involve concepts, theories, and concrete factors to be evaluated and weighed requiring a high degree of analytical ability, independent judgment, and decision-making. Acts as a subject matter expert in the field of expertise.
• Decision Making: Exercises judgment and discretion, and is responsible for determining the time, place and sequence of the work performed.
• Communications: Contacts with team members, clients or the public where some degree of discretion and judgment are required in carrying out a major program and/or function of the organization.
• Supervision Received: Performs work with minimal supervisory oversight. Work assignment is generally unstructured and employee is responsible for organizing complex, varied, and simultaneous coordination of several functions, programs, or projects in various stages of completion.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  • Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field is required
• Experience
  • Minimum 7 years of category management, contract administration and/or purchasing experience.
• Equivalency
  • In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, one year of related professional experience will serve as an equivalency to one year of education

Salary Information

Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $90,900.59 to $136,350.88

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Estimated Close Date: 10/06/2026