Senior Category Manager

Senior Category Manager

• Requires familiarity with healthcare services pricing models and healthcare operations.
• Conducts sourcing events for the category, including gathering business requirements, building the project work plan, administering the distribution and collection of bid documents, leading internal discussions and external vendor communications.
• Responsible for leading the commercial terms negotiations with Vendors and preparing assorted contract documents including SOWs and Change Orders.
• Evaluates contract terms and conditions across multiple contract types including MSA, SaaS, SOWs for acceptance.
• Responsible for Vendor onboarding through coordination with multiple subject-matter experts including security, IT, finance and legal.
• Works well among a team of cross-functional leads.
• Proactively establishes and foster successful, positive working relationships with internal stakeholders and vendor personnel.
• Maintains accurate and up-to-date reports of in-process work.
• Develop new procedures, training, initiatives, specifications and recommendations for process or policy changes and improvements, as appropriate.
• Detail oriented and milestone driven.

Hiring Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)
• 5+ years of experience in related field
• In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in related field
• Healthcare Payor Experience a must.