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Job Title: Category Manager (Supply Chain)

Mount Sinai is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. with a strong reputation for quality of care and innovative research and education. It is our responsibility to make healthcare better, optimizing value for patients, purchasers, and communities.

Are you looking to join a new environment with a knack for strategy, operation and patient-focused care? We have an exciting and newly created REMOTE opportunity in our Supply Chain department for a Category Manager. This role provides ongoing oversight and ensures appropriate controls are in place for contract administration of major spend categories for products and services.

Come join the team at Mount Sinai Health System and apply now!

Job Summary:

The Supply Chain Category Manager provides on-going oversight and ensures appropriate controls are in place for the contract administration of major spend categories for products and services, including oversight of the related contracts, vendor relationships, achievement of savings goals and vendor contractual deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts monthly spend and summary invoice reviews of assigned product and service categories, contracts and vendors; reviews price benchmark data to ensure Mount Sinai pricing is competitive to the best range in the database.
• Ensures established category savings targets are achieved. Completes monthly comparisons to established budgets and savings targets against historical trends and reports results.  In conjunction with category vendors, develops and implements countermeasures to resolve negative savings trends and budget variances.
• Ensures category vendor compliance with contract deliverables including service levels, savings commitments, contract pricing, new product additions, vendor credentialing requirements and other key contract provisions.
• Ensures overall spend levels for assigned categories are being achieved. Conducts on-going reviews of utilization trends including usage off-sets from competitive vendors where product conversions have been implemented.
• Conducts reviews and maintains strict controls on the introduction of new products and services not included in the original contract scope for each assigned product and service category major vendor. Ensures the pricing of all approved new products and services is consistent with the overall contract value and benchmarks favorably.
• Works closely with Sourcing, Value Analysis and engages key stakeholders to provide input and selectively participates in monthly and quarterly business reviews for assigned product and service categories.
• Other duties assigned as required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• 2 - 5+ years of Supplier Diversity and/or Strategic Sourcing experience.
• Contracting experience is a plus to help lead and successfully guide suppliers through MSHS’s procurement processes.
• Demonstrated leadership and partnership abilities within business communities.
• Microsoft Office Suite Skills including: Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, and Outlook. (Including experience with pivot tables, data analysis, databases, etc.)

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong, and are able to professionally advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise, contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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Who We Are

Over 42,000 employees strong, the mission of the Mount Sinai Health System is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Formed in September 2013, The Mount Sinai Health System combines the excellence of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with seven premier hospitals, including Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Brooklyn, The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Queens, Mount Sinai West (formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt), Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination on the basis of their actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, age, disability, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, veteran, immigration, citizenship, or other protected status. 

 EOE including Veterans and Disabled