Sr. Category Management Consultant -Indirect

OhioHealth; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

OhioHealth seeks a Senior Consultant, Category Mgmt to identify cost and quality opportunities across mid-level categories and support Category Managers. You will develop supplier agreements and provide strategic decisions to maximize contract value and supplier performance, owning assigned spend categories through cross-functional collaboration and TCO best practices.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 3–6 years of related RFx, sourcing and contracting experience; a Master’s degree or

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3–6 years of related experience in RFx, sourcing, negotiating and contracting.
• Experience developing and executing strategic sourcing plans.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and supplier management.

Responsibilities

• Support Category Managers with strategy and opportunity assessments.
• Analyze cost drivers and propose sourcing plans.
• Manage vendor relationships and contract performance.
• Lead cross-functional sourcing initiatives with data-driven analysis.
• Maintain and track savings through project trackers.

Skills

Category management

Negotiation

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

RFx tools

Contract management

Job description

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Job Description Summary

The Senior Consultant, Category Mgmt identifies cost and quality opportunities across a broad array of mid-level complex categories and provides support for Category Managers. Responsible for various clinical or indirect products and services across multiple business lines, while collaborating with internal customers and Category Managers to understand their requirements. Develops supplier agreements and provides strategic decision support and recommendations to stakeholders to maximize and ensure the value of contracts and supplier performance. The Senior Consultant, Category Specialist is responsible for owning and optimizing the assigned spend categories via extensive cross-functional collaboration and mastery of all total cost of ownership (TCO)/strategic sourcing best practices.

Responsibilities and Duties

1. Category Management:
   • Support Category Managers strategies and opportunity assessments for specific categories
   • Recommend sourcing plans to Category Manager for assigned spend categories addressing cost drivers using contracting, competitive bidding, value analysis and financial analysis to meet cost savings targets
   • Handles category issues in absence of Category Manager
   • Aggregate and analyze usage across OhioHealth enterprise
   • Analyze service usage patterns in order to make recommendations for eliminating waste and/or reduction of usage for cost savings
   • Work jointly with suppliers and internal clients to improve integrated processes
   • Facilitates and coordinates activities with appropriate committee s
   • Facilitates cross-functional agreement to standardize services such that TCO is minimized but quality is maintained
   • Supports standards for diversity supplier program
   • Enhance supply chain performance by benchmarking and implementing best practices
   • Help evaluate competitive offerings to determine the overall best value for services
   • Provide status reports related to category/contracting activities to Category Managers
2. Relationship Management and Project Management:
   • Build professional, effective, collaborative relationships with internal customers, supply chain colleagues, process partners and suppliers
   • Promote innovation and continual improvement in working practices
   • Accountable for the successful implementation and execution of assigned sourcing and supplier performance strategies and the subsequent delivery of value creation to the company for assigned categories.
   • Assist in the development and review of specifications, statements of work, performance terms and/or acceptance criteria
   • Lead cross-functional stakeholders through fact/evidence-based, data-driven sourcing initiatives with strong market and competitive analysis, creation of leverage, and professional negotiations to secure the best quality, service and cost to meet OhioHealth's needs
   • Advocate and enforce the OhioHealth policy on competitive bidding as well as the importance in establishing a competitive supplier environment
   • Collaborating cross-functionally to optimize service specifications
   • Influence internal clients to adhere to policies, best practices, and work towards OhioHealth's culture of spend optimization, standardization
3. Administration:
   • Manages the data input for vendor and item accuracy, system builds
   • Complete and submit project trackers to quantify savings, status updates
   • Guide match exception resolution
   • Ensures contracts are up-to-date

As a High Reliability Organization (HRO), responsibilities require focus on safety, quality and efficiency in performing job duties.

The job profile provides an overview of responsibilities and duties and is not intended to be an exhaustive list and is subject to change at any time

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree (Required)

Additional Job Description

• Degree
• Years of experience: 3-6

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE

Related field such as business administration, finance, operations research, materials management, supply chain management, economics or related discipline; With Bachelor's Degree, a minimum of 3 -6 years related Experience required of progressive RF(x), sourcing, negotiating and contracting Experience , including extensive Experience developing and executing strategic souring plans; with Master's Degree, a minimum of 3 years ' Experience related Experience acceptable.

DESIRED ATTRIBUTES

Preferred Skills and Qualifications: Master's Degree Supply Chain related certification Strong organizational and follow-up skills; ability to accomplish multiple tasks within the agreed upon timeframes through effective prioritization of duties and functions in a fa