Senior Sourcing Category Partner
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Senior Sourcing Category Partner driving procurement initiatives across Direct and Indirect Spend Categories at NMDP. Championing cost optimization and supporting operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Drive procurement initiatives across Direct and Indirect Spend Categories.
- Champion cost optimization and foster innovation.
- Support operational excellence in key spend categories.
- Act as a trusted procurement advisor across Operations, Facilities, IT, and other departments.
- Develop and execute multi-year category strategies for Capital Expenditures and Business and Healthcare Services.
- Manage full-cycle sourcing processes such as RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs.
- Lead commercial negotiations around pricing, SLAs, data privacy, and intellectual property rights.
- Facilitate productive cross-functional collaboration and strategic guidance.
- Oversee and nurture supplier partnerships, ensuring compliance with SLAs, KPIs, and regulatory requirements.
- Monitor and report essential procurement metrics.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Finance or a related field required, or equivalent experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience in strategic sourcing or category management, ideally within Indirect and/or Direct spend within a healthcare environment, Facilities, IT, HR or other business services.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques.
- Demonstrated success in negotiating complex contracts, managing vendor performance, and delivering measurable cost optimization.
- Adaptability to changing business conditions.
- Great project management and influence skills
- Strong leadership and team management skills to effectively lead cross-functional teams
- Foster a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement.
Benefits:
- NMDP offers regular, full-time employees medical, dental, vision, life and disability, accident/critical illness/hospital, well-being, legal, identity theft and pet benefits.
- Retirement, paid time off/holidays, leave and incentive plans are also offered to eligible employees.
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