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*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.

**Job:** **Supply Chain*

**Organization:** **Scripps Health Corp*

**Title:** *Category Manager - Supply Chain Management *

**Location:** *Central San Diego County-SAN DIEGO-SCRIPPS CORPORATE OFFICES*

**Requisition ID:** *252002962*