Senior Sourcing Category Partner

Role Overview

• Drive procurement initiatives across Direct and Indirect Spend Categories.
• Champion cost optimization and foster innovation.
• Support operational excellence in key spend categories.
• Act as a trusted procurement advisor across Operations, Facilities, IT, and other departments.
• Develop and execute multi-year category strategies for Capital Expenditures and Business and Healthcare Services.
• Manage full-cycle sourcing processes such as RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs.
• Lead commercial negotiations around pricing, SLAs, data privacy, and intellectual property rights.
• Facilitate productive cross-functional collaboration and strategic guidance.
• Oversee and nurture supplier partnerships, ensuring compliance with SLAs, KPIs, and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor and report essential procurement metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Finance or a related field required, or equivalent experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in strategic sourcing or category management, ideally within Indirect and/or Direct spend within a healthcare environment, Facilities, IT, HR or other business services.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques.
• Demonstrated success in negotiating complex contracts, managing vendor performance, and delivering measurable cost optimization.
• Adaptability to changing business conditions.
• Great project management and influence skills
• Strong leadership and team management skills to effectively lead cross-functional teams
• Foster a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• NMDP offers regular, full-time employees medical, dental, vision, life and disability, accident/critical illness/hospital, well-being, legal, identity theft and pet benefits.
• Retirement, paid time off/holidays, leave and incentive plans are also offered to eligible employees.