Category Manager

Title : Category Manager FULLTIME Hybrid - 2 days onsite – Chicago West Suburbs, IL Must be Green Card or Citizen A Category Manager. This is a Full-Time, hybrid role in Chicago's west suburbs. The Category Manager will help CLIENT strengthen its healthcare supply chain by developing sourcing strategies, improving contract value, reducing costs, and supporting high-quality patient care. What You Bring to the Role. (Ideal Experience) Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Health Administration, or a related field; master's degree preferred. Five or more years of healthcare experience, preferably in supply chain with exposure to clinical settings. Experience with healthcare contract management, value analysis, and medical-surgical supplies, diagnostic testing, or clinical workflows. Strong negotiation and analytical skills, including cost-benefit analysis, benchmarking, scenario modeling, and data-backed stakeholder influence. Proven project management, contract review, redlining, presentation, and cross-functional communication skills; advanced Microsoft Office proficiency. What You'll Do. (Skills Used in this Position) Manage a portfolio of 500 or more contracts representing $100M-$250M in supply, service, drug, and capital expenditures, including spend forecasting and budget insights. Lead the full contract lifecycle, including RFP/RFQ activity, redlining, due diligence, approvals, execution, and storage in CLIENT's contract lifecycle management system. Develop category sourcing strategies using spend data, market trends, and stakeholder input to deliver savings, standardization, and process improvements. Negotiate local and group purchasing organization contracts while balancing pricing, quality, service, compliance, and patient-care priorities. Lead vendor relationships and value-analysis initiatives with executives, physicians, clinical teams, and supply chain partners; track savings, cost avoidance, and compliance.

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