Strategic Category Director, Sourcing & Value Creation

Vizient, Inc.; Irving (TX); Vor Ort; USD 102.000 - 179.000; Vollzeit

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Zusammenfassung

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a Category Leader to develop and lead comprehensive category strategies across portfolios, acting as a subject matter expert for stakeholders in sourcing, contracting, and value analysis. You will identify opportunities, drive value realization, and guide complex negotiations with suppliers.

The role requires cross-functional leadership, strategic vision, and analytics-driven decision making to optimize spend and deliver clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.

Aufgaben

• Develop and lead comprehensive category strategies for assigned portfolios that align with client priorities and organizational objectives.
• Serve as the primary category subject matter expert and strategic advisor for stakeholders across sourcing, contracting, and value analysis initiatives.
• Identify category opportunities through analysis of spend, utilization, supplier performance, market conditions, and member priorities.
• Establish strategic plans that drive value realization, standardization, innovation, risk mitigation, and cost optimization.
• Lead end-to-end sourcing initiatives including opportunity assessment, requirements development, RFI/RFP execution, supplier evaluation, negotiations, contract development, and implementation.
• Develop and negotiate complex business, financial, operational, and contractual terms with suppliers.
• Build consensus among client stakeholders, suppliers, and Vizient teams to create solutions that meet clinical, operational, and financial objectives.
• Provide guidance and direction on complex contracting strategies and negotiations.
• Lead stakeholder committees consisting of physicians, clinicians, value analysis leaders, supply chain professionals, operational leadership and executive stakeholders as applicable.
• Facilitate discussions that align stakeholder priorities and support informed sourcing and contracting decisions.
• Present category strategies, sourcing recommendations, and initiative outcomes to executive-level audiences.
• Build trust-based relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers to drive long-term value delivery.
• Manage a complex category portfolio with significant cross-functional collaboration across sourcing, contracting, analytics, implementation, and value analysis teams.
• Anticipate and respond to market, regulatory, supply chain, legal, and competitive factors impacting category strategies.
• Provide mentoring, guidance, and subject matter expertise to other team members.
• Represent Vizient in supplier, member, and industry-facing engagements related to assigned categories.
• Evaluate and interpret spend, utilization, supplier, and market data to inform category strategies and recommendations.
• Identify opportunities for savings, standardization, quality improvement, technology adoption, and operational efficiency.
• Monitor supplier performance and market developments to ensure ongoing category effectiveness.
• Partner with internal teams to achieve annual operational, financial, and strategic portfolio goals.
• Applies advanced AI fluency to enhance category strategy development, market intelligence, stakeholder communications, and business decision-making; evaluates and refines AI-generated outputs for accuracy, relevance, and business impact, while promoting effective and responsible use of AI tools across sourcing, contracting, and category management activities.

Kenntnisse

Category strategy

Stakeholder leadership

Sourcing & contracting

Jobbeschreibung

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a Category Leader to develop and lead comprehensive category strategies across portfolios, acting as a subject matter expert for stakeholders in sourcing, contracting, and value analysis. You will identify opportunities, drive value realization, and guide complex negotiations with suppliers.

The role requires cross-functional leadership, strategic vision, and analytics-driven decision making to optimize spend and deliver clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.