Senior Sourcing Category Partner, IT, Healthcare

Role Overview

• Act as a trusted procurement advisor to teams across Operations, Facilities, IT, and other departments, building strong partnerships and supporting business goals.
• Develop and execute multi-year category strategies for Capital Expenditures and Business and Healthcare Services
• Leverage market intelligence, spend analysis, and supplier benchmarking to identify cost-saving opportunities, streamline vendor relationships, encourage innovation, and minimize risk.
• Manage full-cycle sourcing processes such as RFIs, RFQs and RFPs, which encompass defining business needs, setting evaluation standards, recommending contract awards, and guiding suppliers through onboarding.
• Lead commercial negotiations encompassing pricing, service level agreements (SLAs), data privacy, intellectual property rights, and liability clauses.
• Identify and implement opportunities for strategic supplier rationalization, demand management, and cost avoidance.
• Act as the primary procurement consultant for designated groups.
• Facilitate productive cross-functional collaboration and provide strategic guidance to promote alignment in sourcing strategies, supplier selection procedures, and contract negotiations.
• Oversee and nurture supplier partnerships, ensuring compliance with service level agreements (SLAs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitate contract renewals and renegotiations to maximize cost-efficiency while mitigating commercial and legal risk.
• Monitor and report essential procurement metrics, including cost optimization (savings and avoidance), contract coverage, supplier performance, and adherence to project timelines.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technology trends, industry standards, and innovations relevant to procurement and assigned categories.
• Oversee the technological implementation and maintenance of procurement systems.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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.