Category Manager - Supply Chain Management

This is a full time, benefit eligible position located in San Diego working Monday-Friday.

Why join Scripps Health?

At Scripps Health, your ambition is empowered and your abilities are appreciated:

• Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.
• Scripps is a Great Place to Work Certified company for 2025.
• Scripps Health has been consistently ranked as a top employer for women, millennials, diversity, and as an overall workplace by various national publications.
• Becker's Healthcare ranked Scripps Health on its 2024 list of 150 top places to work in health care.
• We have transitional and professional development programs to create a learning environment that enables you to thrive in your specific field as well as in your overall career.
• Our specialties have been nationally recognized for quality in areas such as cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and gastroenterology.

Primary job responsibilities will include:

• Leads a team responsible for medical capital equipment strategies, negotiations, local and GPO sourcing, critical supplier management, stakeholder support, and biomedical equipment service contracting.
• Develops long-term business strategies aligned with key stakeholders and manage the category initiatives to completion.
• Accountable for leading the Strategic Sourcing Analysts within the medical capital equipment and service team for savings initiative identification and execution.
• Cross functional collaboration with stakeholders to support medical capital equipment and budgetary planning: to include clinical leadership, finance leadership, accounting leadership, biomedical leadership, facilities design and construction leadership, and information systems leadership.
• Works closely with finance in managing large data files to include fiscal year capital budgets.
• Develop negotiation strategies to be used by the medical capital equipment and service team for best quality and financial outcomes.
• Responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and improving supplier performance, developing the supplier base, and conducting research to support the category strategy. Oversight of Supplier business reviews may be necessary.
• Although this is not a supervisory or managerial position, this exempt position is considered a lead role which will drive the medical capital equipment and service team to successful outcomes within their contractual responsibilities delivering exceptional customer service.
• This position will be required to manage the direct contract responsibilities for certain medical capital equipment and service sub-categories/service lines.
• This position has responsibility for managing the medical equipment request intake process and work flows.
• Must deploy professional written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have advanced MS excel experience to include pivot tables and X and V lookup functions, ability to manage large data files.
• Must be familiar with medical capital equipment negotiations and purchase processing.
• Must be familiar with Supply Chain procurement systems.
• Must possess functional knowledge of all aspects of the procure to pay process.
• Candidate must have strong mathematical, analytical, and reasoning skills.

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Required Education/Experience/Specialized Skills:

• Five (5) years or more of progressively responsible purchasing, project management, contract and vendor negotiations, product sourcing and contracting experience in a progressive and complex environment of a multi-hospital setting, or a large hospital.
• Must have a thorough understanding of project management, contract writing, purchasing law, purchasing ethics and healthcare regulations.
• Analytical thinking & proven financial acumen.
• Creating, maintaining and enhancing critical internal stakeholder relationships.
• Drives strategic sourcing and category projects with stakeholders to achieve savings and performance targets.
• Expert at strategic sourcing and supplier negotiations.

Preferred Education/Experience/Specialized Skills/Certification:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college.
• Advanced MS excel experience to include pivot tables and X and V lookup functions, ability to manage large data files.
• Familiar with medical capital equipment negotiations and purchase processing.
• Familiar with Supply Chain procurement systems.
• Possess functional knowledge of all aspects of the procure to pay process.