Category Manager

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Category Manager.

You know how to move fast. You know how to stay organized. You know how to have fun.

You’re equally comfortable with contract negotiation, project management, data analytics, and cost reduction strategies.

You’re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.

Us.

System Services is our Corporate Headquarters in Broomfield, Colorado and is located within the Oracle campus. SCL Health is a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization dedicated to improving the well-being of the people we serve.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

We.

Together we’ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. We’ll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.

We’ll laugh at each other’s jokes (even the bad ones). We’ll hello and high five. We’ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

We’re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Your day.

As a Category Manager, you need to know how to:
Manage portfolio of contracts regarding the supplies, equipment or services in assigned area of responsibility. Bid, negotiate, audit and award contracts. Interface with GPO staff to evaluate GPO offerings and integrate them into SCLHS contract portfolio as warranted.

Identify opportunities for cost reduction. Monitor appropriate metrics related to non-salary expenses. Measure and track the financial results of cost-reduction efforts.

Research new technologies, communicate with value analysis teams to determine when/if new technologies will become part of SCLHS’s portfolio.

Manage projects and perform analytics.

Facilitate value analysis teams for assigned areas of responsibility. Recruit and educate members on the VA process. Ensure compliance to the VA process. Coordinate the work of this team with those of work groups involved in product selection, contracting and vendor management. Prepare and distribute minutes and agendas

Your experience.

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field, required

Minimum of five (5) years of contract negotiation experience, required

Current Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM) and/or Certified Material and Resource Professional (CMRP) certifications, preferred

Experience in supply chain, purchasing, and/or a healthcare setting, preferred

Your next move.

Now that you know more about being a Category Manager on our team we hope you’ll join us. At SCL Health you’ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.

Located in Broomfield, CO.