Senior Category Manager - Clinical

As the Senior Category Manager – Clinical, you will lead the strategy, prioritisation and delivery of Calvary’s clinical procurement portfolio. Reporting to the Director Sourcing, you will set portfolio priorities, allocate work and provide formal people leadership across the clinical sourcing team.

You will own the consolidated clinical sourcing pipeline, review and endorse category strategies and sourcing recommendations, and lead Calvary’s most complex, enterprise-wide and commercially significant clinical procurement initiatives.

Working closely with executive and senior clinical stakeholders, you will drive strong commercial, operational and strategic outcomes across the portfolio. You will be accountable for the team’s aggregate savings and benefits, compliance, supplier performance and risk outcomes, while ensuring procurement activity delivers sustainable value for Calvary.

• Lead the clinical category portfolio, setting strategic direction across spend analysis, market assessment, category strategy, sourcing, product standardisation and supplier management.

• Lead complex, enterprise-wide clinical sourcing and negotiations, including major RFTs, strategic panels, sole-source arrangements and commercially material contracts.

• Set portfolio priorities and provide governance, allocating work across Category Managers and reviewing and endorsing category strategies, sourcing plans, evaluation recommendations and contract awards.

• Partner with senior stakeholders, engaging executives, clinical, operational and finance leaders to align on sourcing priorities, standardisation, commercial decisions and risk.

• Drive portfolio performance and value, monitoring savings and benefits, pipeline delivery, contract compliance, supplier performance, supply continuity and material risks.

• Ensure clinical procurement compliance and resilience, including TGA/ARTG requirements, safety and quality standards, market intelligence, and effective resolution of escalated supplier and commercial issues.

Essential

• Minimum 8 years' procurement experience, including substantial senior-level category management experience across clinical categories or similarly complex and regulated portfolios.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, enterprise-wide and commercially material sourcing processes and contract negotiations with significant clinical, commercial or supply outcomes.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in spend analysis, supply market assessment, Total Cost of Ownership evaluation and benefits realisation.
• Demonstrated accountability for portfolio prioritisation, a consolidated sourcing pipeline and aggregate savings, benefits, compliance and risk outcomes.
• Proven ability to engage, influence and align executive, senior clinical, operational and finance stakeholders.
• Demonstrated formal people-management experience, including objective setting, performance management, work allocation, capability development and quality assurance.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and endorsing category strategies and sourcing recommendations and quality-assuring the work of category management professionals.
• High standard of written communication including category strategies, sourcing plans, board-quality recommendation papers and contract briefs.

Desirable

• Tertiary qualification in procurement, supply chain, commerce, law or a related discipline.
• MCIPS or equivalent professional procurement qualification.
• Experience in healthcare, aged care, not-for-profit or complex multi-site service environments.